Skyline Energy Savers reviews

In 2016 Brian W. shopped around for a home solar system to erase his roughly $230 monthly electric bill. After getting four estimates he settled on Skyline — they explained exactly what they would deliver, offered the best price, and the owner even sat down with him before any paperwork, which felt like true hands-on ownership. He ended up with 26 solar panels that completely eliminated his electric bill; by the end of the year the system generated a surplus that returned about $100 to him from the utility. A few months after the solar install, Skyline also put in a tankless water heater and a new HVAC system. When the HVAC developed problems, the owner personally arranged for a technician to come out, troubleshoot, and fix the issue free of charge. What stood out most was the owner’s direct involvement and follow-through — and the fact that the system not only removed a $230 monthly expense but produced a small annual credit as well.

John W. called after catching a radio ad that promised a solar system could be paid off in five years. He and his wife then sat through two meetings with Skyline Energy’s fast-talking, high-pressure salesperson and were shown a system that was pitched to eliminate their PG&E bills entirely — even to generate excess power so “our meter would run backwards” and PG&E would credit them. Because the design promised so much output, they were also sold a tankless water heater with guarantees of instant hot water, never running out, and savings from not keeping water hot all the time. They went ahead with the purchase. The installers arrived on time and did a tidy job mounting the panels and fitting the new water heater. But getting PG&E to acknowledge the system required jumping through several administrative hoops, and it took months before the homeowners saw any change on their bills. When the changes arrived, they weren’t the good kind: quarterly “true up” charges began appearing for hundreds of dollars, and at the end of the first year they owed PG&E more than $800. The prior year’s total PG&E bill had been $1,560, so the net annual savings worked out to only about $760 — meaning, g

John A. paid nearly $17,000 cash for a 2 kW solar system for his home and expected the savings to justify the price. He discovered at year’s end, when a true-up bill arrived for almost $4,000, that the tiny array delivered far less value than he’d been sold — and that the price he paid looked about double what a comparable system should cost. He called owner Mort, who acted surprised by the true-up charges; John likened that reaction to an auto mechanic pretending not to know what an engine is. After moving, he shopped around and found other solar companies offering roughly twice the system size for the same money. The detail that stuck with him: a $17k “cash” purchase for a 2 kW system produced a nearly $4k annual true-up and turned out to be only about half the system size available elsewhere for the same price.