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It's been about half a year I think since we've been doing referral codes this way and I'm curious if the community likes it done this way.

Each month, we create a new megathread. Each megathread is subject to a strict rule where every user is allowed to comment their code just once and they can't use formatting or pleas. The idea is that everybody's code should be on equal footing. Users are forbidden from posting their code anywhere else. No posts, no comments elsewhere, no flair, etc.

The megathread has very strict enforcement in place via a Reddit "Devvit" bot that locks comments that follow the rules and removes comments that break the rules. We do it this way, where everybody's comment is locked, to prevent discussions from forming under them. We want it to be just codes.

We have noticed a significant decrease in referral code spam, which we define as people creating posts with their code or commenting their code on unrelated discussions throughout the sub, since implementing this.

Please share your thoughts. Thanks!

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EBOX referral codes provide a one time $25 credit for both the code's owner and the person using the code. It is applied after the customer's first month of service passes, on the code owner's next bill and on the new customer's second bill.

This is the megathread for July 2026. Post your code in a single top level comment here with no other text and no formatting (e.g. post just "ABC123", not "ABC123" or "My code is ABC123, please use it!"), with no spaces before and after your code.

Please do not post your referral code anywhere else on the subreddit.

Thank you!

I'm looking for some guidance on whether the particular way I want to combine a power station and solar panel are safe and effective. But, I also want to learn how to figure these things out for myself for the future, based on the stats of power stations and panels.

I have an Elite 30 V2 power station (288 Wh). Its manual says I can charge via solar at up to 200 W. So I know I could get a 200 W panel for it. But I'm also interested in maximizing performance in low sun conditions like overcast. For example, I'm okay with having 400 W capacity providing me with 200 W of power during low sun conditions.

1. Can I get a 400 W panel and have it provide me with up to 200 W during low sun conditions, and then have it throttle to provide me with 200 W during optimal sun conditions?

2. Is it better to do this with one 400 W panel or two 200 W panels? If two panels, would I wire them in series or parallel?

3. What are the power station and panel stats that are relevant here? Volts? Amps?

OCAA (Ontario Clean Air Alliance), a non-profit that advocated for ending coal back when we used to burn it to produce electricity, and now fights for fighting climate change as cost effectively and cleanly as possible, maintains a comparison of the price of Ontario's various utility electricity options. It compares things like nuclear, wind, solar, and energy efficiency efforts.

They updated it for June 2026: https://www.cleanairalliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/options2026june10.pdf

The options:

Option	Price per kilowatt-hour (cents)
Energy Efficiency	3.1
New Solar & Wind: IESO 2026 contracts	8.9
New Onshore Wind Power + Storage: Mid-point cost estimate	11.4
OPG Price of Nuclear Power in 2026	12.4
New Solar Power + Storage: Mid-point cost estimate	15.5
New Offshore Wind: Mid-point cost estimate	15.5
OPG Price of Nuclear Power in 2027	21.4
New Gas-Fired Peaker Plant: Mid-point cost estimate	27.4
New Nuclear Reactor	31.0

"IESO" refers to the Independent Electricity System Operator.

"+ Storage" refers to the source being accompanied by enough storage (in Ontario, almost always batteries) to store the electricity for when it's needed according to current usage patterns. I believe it does not refer to storing the power for long periods of time (e.g. multiple cloudy days, or an entire season), and that would be more expensive.

EBOX referral codes provide a one time $25 credit for both the code's owner and the person using the code. It is applied after the customer's first month of service passes, on the code owner's next bill and on the new customer's second bill.

This is the megathread for June 2026. Post your code in a single top level comment here with no other text and no formatting (e.g. post just "ABC123", not "ABC123" or "My code is ABC123, please use it!"), with no spaces before and after your code.

Please do not post your referral code anywhere else on the subreddit.

Thank you!

Saw an ad on Reddit recently for a solar co-op based in the Kitchener area. Not posting who they are in particular because I don't want this to come across as astroturfing. I'm just someone enthusiastic about solar who found it interesting.

I was able to find other solar co-ops when googling too. Some offers shares and some offered bonds. Some allowed investments to be held in registered accounts, some didn't.

When I checked them out, I saw that there were basically two perspectives:

1. Investors sign up and earn money through preferred shares, where the returns come from profits the co-op makes helping commercial property owners install solar on their property
2. Commercial property owners sign up and go through some process to get solar on their property. I think they do it without having to pay up front costs (that comes from the capital from the investors).

I thought this idea made sense, but I was a bit leery because I know grid scale solar has gotten very cheap lately, so I was surprised to see there be investment potential in rooftop solar, even at the larger, more efficient commercial scale (compared to residential rooftop solar).

Apparently they used to make money through FIT and microFIT contacts. But, as I'm sure many of us at least in Ontario are aware, FIT doesn't exist anymore. The current government ended that. Now we have a different net metering scheme.

I liked the idea of becoming a member of one co-op in particular, since it only required a one time $10 payment for a membership share and didn't require me investing. So I did, and when I logged in, I saw a few red flags, like seeing how the messages from them to members posted on their internal portal seemed to stop around 2020 after seemingly being active before then. On the other hand, they are having an AGM early next month and they seem active on LinkedIn.

How does the community feel about co-ops like these in 2026, from the perspective of both investors and those installing solar through them? I'm curious about Ontario perspectives in particular.

This happened to a subreddit I was in, /r/hovr. I saw a post about some stock show up in my main feed.

It turns out someone "took over" (the words they used when I used the message mods feature) and made the subreddit, which was about a ridesharing platform called HOVR, into one about a stock that uses the HOVR ticker.

They also deleted all the old posts, including one I made where I asked other people in my city about their experience with the rideshare platform, and I was waiting for responses.

Received this in an email today. Folks should know the referral program is being boosted throughout the rest of the month.

>Share your code, get $50! Through May 31, get a $50 credit when a friend signs up using your referral code!