St. Albert Place's new roof array is 228.92 kW and the city expects about 215,000 kWh a year - the page prints $87,533 and $350,132 of funding, no project cost, and no battery
On 12 November 2026 the City of St. Albert said a 228.92 kW array on St. Albert Place is fully operational. The page expects roughly 215,000 kWh a year, about 9% of that building's use, with some export sold by season. It prints no sale price and no switch-on date. Funding lines are $87,533 from Alberta's Municipal Energy Generation Program and $350,132 from Canada's Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program. The page prints no currency code and no project cost. Adding the two funding lines is $437,665, our arithmetic. Older roofs on the same page are 301 kW, 287 kW, 1,100 kW and 21 kW. No battery is named.
A building owner in Alberta can read a finished roof array. The city page prints the kilowatts, an expected year of energy, and two funding lines. It does not print a battery.
The City of St. Albert's release is marked 12 November 2026. The page says it was last edited on 13 November 2026. The array on St. Albert Place is 228.92 kW. The page says it recently became fully operational. It does not print the day it was switched on. It does not print a panel count or an inverter kilowatt.
The city expects the array to produce roughly 215,000 kWh a year, about 9% of St. Albert Place's annual electricity use. Some of that energy is exported and sold to the grid in seasons when the roof makes more than the building uses. The page does not print the sale price. It does not print the building's total use. If 215,000 kWh is 9%, the building's year is about 2.39 million kWh, our arithmetic on two round figures. 215,000 divided by 228.92 kW is 939 kWh per kilowatt over a year, our arithmetic on the page's round energy figure and its exact kilowatts.
This is the fifth roof array in the city's set. The page prints 301 kW at the Dez Liggett Transit Facility in 2017, 287 kW on Jack Kraft in 2020, 1,100 kW on Servus Place in 2021, and 21 kW on the Garden Clubhouse in 2025. Adding 228.92, 301, 287, 1,100 and 21 gives 1,937.92 kW, our arithmetic. The page does not print that total. It says all of these arrays together produce, in a year, electricity equal to the use of 1,089 homes. That homes line is the whole set. It is not a claim about this roof alone. The page does not print the kilowatt-hours behind the 1,089 homes.
The project received $87,533 from the Municipal Climate Change Action Centre's Municipal Energy Generation Program. The page says that centre is a partnership of Alberta Municipalities, the Rural Municipalities of Alberta, and the Government of Alberta, and that the program's funding came from the Government of Alberta. It says the rest of the project received $350,132 in funding from the Government of Canada's Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program. The page prints a dollar sign and does not print a currency code. It does not print a project cost. Adding the two funding lines is $437,665, our arithmetic. The page does not call that sum the invoice.
No battery is named. A battery would hold midday sun for later in the day. This page has the roof. It does not have the tank. A reader who wants hours of storage will not find them here. The page also does not say the array is on a factory, a shop or a private workplace. St. Albert Place is a city building.
Analogy: the panels are a tap on the roof. A battery would be a tank for the evening. This page has the tap. The dollars on the page are two funding lines. They are not the bill from the installer.
Good: A 12 November city release, 228.92 kW kept as 228.92 kW, 215,000 kWh kept as an expectation, two funding lines kept as funding, and the battery kept off the page.
Bad: No switch-on date, no panel count, no inverter kilowatts, no export price, no project cost, no currency code, no battery. The 9% and the 215,000 kWh are the city's round figures. The 1,089 homes line is the whole set.
Ugly: Adding $87,533 and $350,132 and calling $437,665 the invoice. Treating 215,000 kWh as a metered result. Treating 1,089 homes as this roof alone. Inventing a battery. Inventing a cent rate for the exported power.
Soft next step: write 228.92 kW as the array, leave the battery blank, and leave the project cost blank.
Source: City of St. Albert, 12 Nov 2026, fifth rooftop solar array. Primary for the 12 November release date, a last-edited line of 13 November 2026, 228.92 kW on St. Albert Place, fully operational with no switch-on date, roughly 215,000 kWh a year, about 9% of that building's annual use, seasonal export with no sale price, 301 kW in 2017, 287 kW in 2020, 1,100 kW in 2021, 21 kW in 2025, electricity equal to 1,089 homes for the set, $87,533 from the Municipal Energy Generation Program, and $350,132 from the Green and Inclusive Community Buildings program. The page prints no currency code, no project cost and no battery. Adding the funding lines is $437,665, and adding the five kilowatt figures is 1,937.92 kW, our arithmetic. 215,000 divided by 228.92 is 939 kWh per kilowatt over a year, our arithmetic.