The OPA began sending conditional offers to the first 700 microFIT applicants during the week of December 14, 2009. See the Newsroom section for more details.

Subscribe to receive email updates on the microFIT Program.

	Download microFIT brochure
	Téléchargez le dépliant microFIT

Home » microFIT program rules

Eligibility requirements

Your project must meet certain eligibility requirements to qualify for the microFIT Program. A microFIT project must:

be a renewable energy facility that uses solar photovoltaic (PV), wind, waterpower and bioenergy (biogas, biomass, landfill gas)

be 10 kW or less in size and located in Ontario

be connected, directly or indirectly, to the distribution system

must have metering that is suitable for data collection and payment calculation. All microFIT projects require a separate meter so that the amount of electricity produced by the project can be accurately measured.

not be the subject of an existing OPA contract. For example, a project must not have a contract through the OPA’s Renewable Energy Standard Offer Program (RESOP).

Incremental projects

If your microFIT project is an expansion of an existing renewable energy project, there are three more eligibility requirements.

Domestic content

If you are applying for a solar PV microFIT contract, your project must meet domestic content requirements.