Welcome to Suncastle Park

Located adjacent to beautiful Pike Lake Provincial Park you have all the benefits and beauty of country living. All the amenities of Saskatoon are also within easy reach, just a 15 minute drive away. You are walking distance to the Pike Lake Community Centre and Pike Lake School. All lots are serviced by Sask Power with SaskEnergy and SaskTel adjacent. Lot sizes vary from just over one acre to just shy of 2 acres. The landscape is natural unbroken prairie and wild brush. The hills passing through the development mean that most lots are perfectly suited for walkout basements.

The Suncastle Park Concept

At the heart of Suncastle Park lies a really bright idea. Homes are built to complement their natural setting and take advantage of the planet’s greatest energy source – the sun. To accomplish this, homes will have a passive solar design, dramatically reducing the energy needed for heating. Included with each lot is an installed, 2 kilowatt grid-tied solar power system. That’s enough power to run all your standard appliances. Because this system qualifies for the provincial government’s net metering program, the homeowner will be eligible for a 35% rebate of the system’s value. Because it’s a grid tied system, excess power is fed back to the electrical grid and you’ll earn credits to use against future power bills.

How it Works: On a sunny day, the solar panels will produce more than enough electricity to operate household appliances so the extra power will be used against future power bills – the electrical meter will run backwards. At night SaskPower will supply the electrical needs of the home. The homeowner will pay only for the difference between the power supplied by SaskPower and the power produced by the solar panels. This is called “net metering”, because you only pay for the “net” amount used.

This “grid-tied system”, so called because the house is tied to the utility grid, operates differently from an off-grid system that is not connected to the utility grid. An off-grid system uses a battery bank to store energy for overnight and a backup generator for occasional times during the winter when there is not enough sunlight to produce the amount of electricity needed. A grid-tied system is more convenient for the homeowner because there are no batteries or backup generator to maintain. The grid becomes your battery and your backup.

Covenants

The covenants set out at Suncastle Park are intended to ensure a respect for the environment, the conservation of fossil fuels and the highest possible construction standards.

We require that all homes incorporate a passive solar design provided by Suncatcher Solar. We have more than 80 plans to choose from or we can develop a custom plan to your specifications. All homes will be crafted by our builder, Jaylin Homes Ltd. Suncastle Park is a development on unbroken prairie and natural brush land that is habitat to many species of wildlife. Designs will incorporate as much as possible of the natural landscape - recreational land not suitable for agriculture, and construction will minimize the disturbance of the environment.