Best Solar Installers

The OC

This company has gone from troubled to collapsed. We found a clear pattern: customers paid deposits in 2021-2022, dealt with months of delays and missed appointments, and then watched the company unravel while their installations sat incomplete. One homeowner paid $7,500 upfront, waited a full year

American Solar Direct went out of business years ago. We found dozens of reviews from customers stranded with leased panels that stopped working, no one to call for service, and bills that kept coming. One homeowner reported paying lease fees for two years on a dead system with zero support. Another

Nerd Power's sales team will win you over, but the company can't keep its promises after you sign. In the first few years, you may deal with delayed installs and surprise out-of-pocket fixes like pigeon guards the crew forgot. Then the real trouble starts. We found 61 reviews describing system failu

This company took money and vanished. We found over a dozen reviewers who paid FreeVolt and were left with either no system at all, an unfinished installation, or broken panels they couldn't get fixed. One customer waited from August 2019 through September 2020 for a system that never got connected

Sunrun will charge you while your panels sit broken. We analyzed thousands of reviews and found a company plagued by systemic breakdowns that leave customers trapped in multi-year cycles of non-functioning systems and finger-pointing. One homeowner reported paying $111 monthly for over a year while

Tesla Energy is gambling with your home. We analyzed thousands of reviews and found a company that can't activate systems, miscalculates energy production, and leaves customers trapped in 20-year leases with higher bills than before they went solar. One homeowner paid $78.69 into their utility's cre

California State Development has a severe follow-up problem that makes them too risky to hire. One homeowner spent two years chasing them for repairs after roof tiles were improperly installed during a solar project, causing interior water damage that the company never addressed despite hundreds of

This company is not worth the risk. We analyzed dozens of reviews and found a clear pattern of sloppy installations followed by complete radio silence when things go wrong. One homeowner called seven times over several weeks to fix a leak in their two-year-old system and never heard back. Another wa

This company left customers stuck with broken systems, ignored service requests, and routinely misled people about costs. One homeowner watched their solar go dark for months while being bounced between sales reps because Verengo didn't staff a real tech support line. Another paid an extra $1,300 in

This company goes dark when you need them most. We found dozens of customers whose panels stopped working and who then sent four, five, six unanswered calls for help. One reviewer lost three prime summer months after their inverter died because 1st Light never returned a single voicemail, even thoug

Harness Power went out of business in 2023 and abandoned hundreds of customers mid-project. We analyzed more than a hundred reviews and found a company that routinely failed inspections, left systems nonfunctional for months, and then shut down without notice, leaving homeowners with $70,000 loans f

Clean Initiative should not be on your shortlist. We analyzed dozens of reviews and found a company plagued by abandoned projects, nonworking systems, and disappearing support. In one case, a homeowner's panels stopped producing power entirely after four years, but the company's license had been sus

We found a company that appears to have gone dark on its customers. One 88-year-old has been paying her loan for over a year on solar panels that were never turned on, and her family can't reach anyone at Levion to fix it. That pattern repeats across every review we analyzed. Installations drag on f