To be eligible for the FIT Program, your project must:

• be located in Ontario, at a location over which you have control
• use one of the eligible renewable energy sources, which are biogas, biomass, landfill gas, on-shore wind, solar PV and waterpower
• connect to an eligible local distribution system, host facility or the IESO-controlled grid
• be separately metered for data collection and settlement purposes
• comply with the agricultural land restrictions, in the case of ground-mounted solar PV projects greater than 100 kW. Click here for information about agricultural land restrictions.
• if an existing generating facility at the time of application, register as an incremental project. In this case, only the contract capacity relating to the expansion or upgrade will be eligible. More information on incremental projects is available here.
• if a solar PV project, not be located on a property that has an existing microFIT solar PV project
• comply with the restrictions on multiple projects on a single property.

Your project is not eligible for the FIT Program if it:

• is greater than 50 megawatts (MW) if it is a waterpower project
• is greater than 10 MW if it is a solar PV ground-mounted project
• has an existing OPA contract. Please note that there are options to allow certain projects with a RESOP contract to transition to the FIT and microFIT Programs (click here for more details).

Although not an eligibility requirement, please note that solar PV and wind projects will be required to meet certain domestic content requirements set out in Exhibit D of the FIT contract. Click here for more information about domestic content requirements.

In the case of rooftop solar PV projects, only one FIT application for rooftop solar PV will be allowed for each property. This means that more than one project can be located on the same property (for example, multiple rooftop projects on different buildings), provided the total capacity of the projects located on the property is reflected in a single application and all the projects share a common connection point.

For solar PV projects, only 10 MW per property will be allowed. For waterpower projects only 50 MW per property is allowed.