V3 Electric reviews
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The Verdict
V3 Electric is not a company we can recommend. One homeowner lost two years of her life to a botched installation that began with deception after her husband's death, left nails scattered across her yard that punctured two tires, and ended with tarps and bricks blowing around on a leaking roof that damaged her TV and bathroom. Another customer paid $70,000 for a system the county inspector nearly rejected because V3's crew laid conduit too shallow three separate times, eventually flooding the inverter. We found 184 negative mentions of value and 181 complaints about post‑sale support, a pattern that shows up in story after story. Reviewers describe crews who don't know local codes, project managers who never show up when promised, and a revolving door of customer‑service reps who have no record of previous conversations. One homeowner spent a year trying to get a second undersized system online and was hit with two $3,000 utility bills while V3 ignored emails. If you want an installer who'll actually return your calls after the panels go up, keep looking.
If you're willing to gamble that your installation will be one of the smooth ones, you might save money upfront. But if anything goes wrong, expect months of unreturned calls, subcontractors who don't follow code, and damage V3 won't repair. The risk isn't worth it.
Reviews That Shaped Our Verdict
Pie Ska brought this company in to finish a solar-plus-battery setup on a house his family mostly built, and what began as an installation turned into a years-long ordeal. He discovered the crew cut power without arranging a generator or even warning him to rent one, so a broken circuit left him with a significant loss of refrigerated food. An inspector failed the installation twice; when the inspector returned, he waited for the company but the crew didn’t show up to complete the fixes. Communication stayed only on paper — no phone calls — and requests to reach upper management went unanswered. What started as “over a year” of delays later stretched to 2.5 years with the system still unfinished: panels and batteries left incomplete, and a known component problem left unaddressed because the company wanted to push a final sign-off before repairing the fault. He feels treated like the problem rather than a customer, and has made it clear he will pursue another installer only after the company pays for damaged food, lost time, and other expenses related to their failures.
When Jana hired V3 to install a $70,000 solar system, the job quickly turned into a string of installation failures and missed follow-ups. She found crews who didn’t seem familiar with the county’s electrical code, and the work failed the first inspection. The county inspector ultimately signed off, apparently without digging into the shoddy work, while V3 never sent the supervisor Jana requested to review the problems. Her husband had to point out multiple flaws onsite. After digging up the trench a second time to re-lay conduit and piping, rainwater entered a conduit that hadn’t been buried deep enough and wasn’t properly connected — an issue that fired the inverter. They ended up hiring their own electrical contractor to get the system tied into the house. About 1.5 years later the same conduit filled with water again and destroyed a replacement inverter; they were told the run still wasn’t to code. V3 had multiple chances to fix the installation but never provided effective supervision, and Jana was left with a nonworking $70k system after repeated water ingress into an improperly buried conduit — the single persistent failure that ruined the project.
Robin lost her husband at the end of 2022 and, in the fog of grief, discovered a company called V3 on her doorstep convincing her 18‑year‑old son they were the contractor his father had hired. He tried to finish what his dad started, followed V3’s direction, and the family ended up with months of unscheduled visits and, about a year later, a solar installation plus roof repairs she never agreed to or signed for. She watched crews work around her home without clear notice: roofing crews used and cut her front‑porch wood, left power tools and cords strung across the yard and plugged in, and scattered shingles and nails across the property. She picked up roofing nails herself after getting two flat tires, and still finds nails on the ground. The replacement shingles are visibly mismatched, creating an obvious, tacky appearance. Worse, the roof has leaked for seven months at the solar installation area. Bricks and tarps placed on the roof blow around in wind, and water has soaked into the living room ceiling — enough to short out the TV and cause bubbling and cracking paint through the house and into a bathroom around the vent fan. Appointments and complaints have been made again &
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Serving customers for 10 years
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What You Can Expect
Mark had V3 install a residential solar system two years ago after being promised big savings and told a battery would only be necessary during outages. He later discovered the company never explained the annual true-up reconciliation, and the system consistently underdelivered. That gap left him facing $2,000 true-up bills and carrying roughly $400 a month in payments for panels that aren’t producing enough. When the financing partner, Mosaic, went bankrupt, he reached out to V3 for help and found no support. He ended up feeling trapped financially, saying his only options seem to be bankruptcy or foreclosure, and the one detail that lingers is the lack of assistance from V3 after the lender collapsed.
Frederick O hired V3 Electric in March 2024 to install Tesla backup batteries on his home. From the outset he faced erratic communication—points of contact kept changing and it often took months of calls and texts just to get a response. Agreements were signed in April 2024, and in September he mailed the final payment of $8,500. In October 2024 V3 provided written confirmation that the account was "paid in full," and he completed PG&E’s Medical Baseline Program requirements, which should have generated a $26,000 rebate to cover the remaining cost. Despite those steps, in September 2025 he began receiving invoices demanding $26,000 plus penalties. Repeated requests to stop contacting him were ignored, and the ongoing billing harassment caused significant stress. He left a one-star rating, with the most striking detail being that a written "paid in full" confirmation did not prevent the company from later pursuing a $26,000 bill.
Daenen M. bought a solar system from V3 more than five years ago and discovered that the hands-on warranty and post-install support promised during the sale vanished once the panels were on the roof. He ended up with an inverter that failed twice; each time V3 refused to provide assistance unless he had purchased their monitoring service. Instead of taking responsibility, they pushed him to contact the manufacturer or pay $750 for a V3 technician to come out. He wound up managing broken equipment and warranty confusion on his own after being sold a level of service that never materialized. The detail that will stick: V3 insisted he either sign up for their monitoring or pay a steep fee before they would help — despite having sold him support as part of the deal.