Bill 209: The Manitoba Hydro Amendment Act (Net-Metering Agreements)

This bill directly affects residential property owners in Manitoba who have installed or are planning to install rooftop solar panel systems. A typical person affected is a homeowner — not a corporation — who generates their own solar electricity and wants to offset their hydro bills by feeding surplus power back into the grid. Day-to-day, this means reading your own meter each billing period, reporting production and consumption numbers to Manitoba Hydro, and receiving credits on future bills that can carry forward for up to five years. Importantly, the bill is limited to individual residential owners, so landlord corporations or investment property holding companies registered under The Corporations Act are excluded from these agreements.