Regular maintenance is essential to ensuring your solar system performs as designed. Our preventative maintenance programs include visual inspections of panels, mounting hardware, and electrical connections, inverter performance checks, and cleaning services to remove dirt, debris, and snow buildup that can reduce efficiency. We check for loose connections, corrosion, and wear that could lead to system failures or safety hazards. Alberta’s extreme temperature swings, heavy snow loads, and wildlife activity can all impact your system’s performance—our maintenance programs are specifically designed to address these regional challenges before they become expensive problems.
One of the most common threats to rooftop solar systems in Alberta is wildlife damage. Pigeons, squirrels, and other animals nest under solar panels, causing damage to wiring, creating fire hazards, and leaving behind corrosive waste that can degrade your equipment. Our Crittergard installation service provides a permanent barrier that keeps animals out while allowing proper airflow and drainage. We’ve protected hundreds of systems across northern Alberta, and Crittergard is now a standard recommendation for all our installations. If you already have a system without protection, we can retrofit Crittergard to prevent damage before it starts.
Modern solar systems generate valuable data about their performance, but that data is only useful if someone is actually watching it. Solar Ninjas offers professional system monitoring services that track your production in real-time, identify performance issues before they cost you money, and provide detailed reporting on your system’s health. Whether you have an existing monitoring platform or need us to install one, we can help you understand what your system is telling you. We diagnose underperforming panels, inverter faults, communication errors, and grid connection issues—and we fix them quickly.
When something goes wrong with your solar system, you need a team that understands the technology and can respond quickly. Solar Ninjas provides expert repair services for all types of solar installations, regardless of who originally installed them. Common repairs include inverter replacements, panel replacements due to damage or failure, electrical troubleshooting, mounting system repairs, and reconnection after roof work or other home improvements. We stock common parts and work with all major manufacturers to ensure fast turnaround times. Our team is available when you need us—because we know that downtime means lost production and lost savings.
Your energy needs change over time, and your solar system should be able to grow with you. Solar Ninjas specializes in upgrading and expanding existing solar installations to meet new demands. Whether you’re adding an electric vehicle and need more capacity, want to incorporate battery storage for backup power, or simply want to maximize your offset with additional panels, we can design and implement the right solution. We work with systems of all ages and manufacturers, ensuring compatibility and optimal performance. Upgrades can also include inverter replacements with newer, more efficient technology, panel additions to unused roof space, and integration with energy monitoring systems for better visibility and control.
We’re not a sales company doing 200+ installs a year—we’re a team of experienced professionals who prioritize quality and long-term relationships over volume. When you work with Solar Ninjas, you’re working with people who will actually be here when you need them. We’ve been serving northern Alberta for years, and our reputation is built on reliability, expertise, and honest service. We know the local climate, the common issues systems face in this region, and how to solve them efficiently. Most importantly, we stand behind our work and treat every system like it’s our own.
Solar Ninjas provides maintenance and upgrade services throughout the Edmonton region and across northern Alberta. Whether you’re in Sherwood Park, St. Albert, Spruce Grove, Leduc, Devon, Beaumont, Fort Saskatchewan, or surrounding communities, we’re ready to help. We also travel beyond the 150km ring road for larger projects on a custom basis. Your solar system is a long-term investment—let us help you protect it and maximize its value for decades to come.
Ready to schedule maintenance or discuss an upgrade? Contact Solar Ninjas today and work with a team that’s actually here when you need them.
Yes! Critter guards can be retrofitted to any existing solar system. If you’re already experiencing animal problems (nesting sounds, droppings on panels, or visible damage), we recommend acting quickly—the longer animals inhabit the space, the more damage they cause. SolarNinjas can inspect your system, remove any existing nests safely, repair any wiring damage, and install critter guards to prevent future issues. We also offer critter guard installation as part of all new solar installations.
Birds, squirrels, and other animals love nesting under solar panels—the space provides shelter, warmth, and protection from predators. Without critter guards, animals can: damage wiring (leading to system failure or fire hazards), create nests that block airflow (reducing panel efficiency), leave droppings that corrode equipment, and create entry points for roof leaks. Critter guards are a small investment that prevents thousands of dollars in damage and maintains your solar system’s performance and warranty.
If you have to sell, it should bring the homeowner comfort that their home will list as a revenue-generating property, that with solar the electric bill is controlled or eliminated, and that they are on the leading edge of high value based sales metrics which attract more motivated buyers.
Longer-term studies are now showing that homeowners recoup their investment (sometimes slightly less or more) when installing PV systems. Photovoltaics can be a practical home investment, not just a green statement.
Study: Home Owned PV Improves Resale Value
Homes sell up to twice as fast, for more $$. -NYT, Forbes, NREL, Studies & Articles
More and more people are seeing these photovoltaic systems as attractive, and a value added to any property. They are low to no maintenance, generate a steady return indefinitely, encourage a sense of independence, and make a strong positive statement.
More affluent, educated, motivated buyers are interested in these things and so homes can sell much faster additionally to being worth more to begin with.
Any unused or underused land could be a candidate for a solar PV installation. They make a good wind diffuser along edges of property much like planted trees. They generate energy (and that equals money), which is nice to know every time you look at them.
The operating costs of a rural property are reduced, which is an incentive to buyers. It’s not just urban folks who are keen to cash in on the direction the market is going.
Farmers and large property owners stand to make a great deal back on their investment as solar scales up quickly. Doubling the size of a PV system does not necessarily double its cost, leading to a condition similar to buying in bulk. The more you install, the greater your rate of return and the greater the value of your asset overall.
Solar is an asset that does not depreciate the way a bathroom renovation or new car does. 25-year warranties and lifespans of solar technology far exceeding that help retain value and every time energy prices rise so does the value of your installation.
It’s a new way of thinking but, in terms of value, the more energy costs the more your solar asset is worth. If you can generate all of your power or more with solar that is a serious net benefit. If you can’t generate all your power from the sun, it will still insulate you from future cost increases and save a lot of money while improving your cash flow.
Solar panels are incredibly robust when installed properly. Most come with 30-year performance warranties guaranteeing a certain output. They simply do not “fail” historically speaking. After 30 years your solar panels will still be producing ~85% of their original output, and should never drop below that. Solar panels are a “forever” purchase.
There are even still systems installed back in the 1960s that are still going strong! That’s 55 years using the oldest technology available. Today’s panels are many times better.
It can be suggested to clean the panels on occasion. If rain is not doing enough to make you happy it doesn’t hurt to bust out the extension on the hose or light duty pressure washer.. of course window cleaning companies have picked up on this and are providing special cleaning services for solar panels using squeegees and brushes designed for the purpose at extremely affordable rates. An electrician trained in solar electricity can do an inspection anytime to check connections and hardware, this service is included in our packages as a follow-up.
Snow clearing companies also have special tools that make removal of serious snow a simple matter if there is ever a two-foot dump overnight…prices are market-based and extremely low for homeowner systems. They bank on repeat business and the fact that its an extremely easy and quick job.
Solar panels are covered by your house insurance in case of vandalism, freak hurricane force golf ball hail, or whatever else may come your way. These cases are extremely rare and the panels are designed to withstand a fair bit of punishment once installed.
