Welcome to SolarReviews
For over 10 years, we’ve dedicated ourselves to helping homeowners navigate the solar buying landscape through honest content and opportunities to connect with trusted local solar companies.
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What authority and expertise does SolarReviews have?
We are a team of solar experts dedicated to helping homeowners and solar companies alike. From our unbiased editorial team to our experienced sales force, we focus on expanding the residential solar industry one home at a time.
SolarReviews has helped over 1.6 million consumers with their solar journeys, and that number continues to grow.
Impact calculated on average home solar system size of 6 kW
At its core, SolarReviews is a source for consumers and installers to connect, making going solar as easy as possible.
Consumers: Gain access to reliable installers near you, up-to-date articles about solar, and verified company reviews.
Installers: Get connected with consumers interested in adding solar to their homes and grow your business.
The SolarReviews Mission Statement
Our mission is to make going solar easy by providing homeowners with honest advice and trusted resources and connecting them with reliable, local solar companies.
The solar industry has a poor reputation because of a few bad actors, but we’re here to change that.
At SolarReviews, we aim to help solar companies grow their business with integrity. We would rather be honest and lose out on a sale than be untruthful to installers and homeowners.
Our Company Story
Recognizing a disconnect between American consumers and solar installers, our Australian co-founders, Andy Sendy and Vassie Fitzgerald, set out to provide Americans with the resources they needed to research solar panels, connect with installers, and get solar on their roofs.
What Sets Us Apart
We value:
Trust
Expertise
Privacy
We do this by allowing customers to be in charge of their information.
Our Calculator Needs No Personal Information
We want people to understand their options without having to provide personal information. So, we created a free calculator that generates a financial analysis of installing solar panels based on only a zip code and a recent electricity bill.
We utilize local utility costs and climate-based usage profiles to get accurate estimates. This allows homeowners to get an idea of the monetary commitment needed for solar, and they can choose whether they want to get in touch with installers.
You’re Only Contacted by the Number of Installers Chosen
One of the biggest concerns homeowners have with getting an online quote is that their information will be sold, leading to incessant calls from hundreds of companies.
When using SolarReviews, a consumer can choose to be contacted by only one installer or up to four. That’s it. We never provide your information to more installers than you want. If an installer sells details from our site, we drop them as a partner. We value your privacy over all else.
You Can Remove Your Information From Our Site
If you’re not comfortable having your information stored with SolarReviews, you can have it removed. Once removed, it is no longer saved in our database.
Unless otherwise marked, reviews on our site have been uploaded by consumers and do not represent the views of SolarReviews, its owner, Solar Investments Inc., or any of our staff or directors.
Why You Can Trust Us
None of SolarReviews’ journalists or editors is affiliated with or has a financial relationship with any specific solar company, manufacturer, or distributor of the solar products listed and reviewed on our website.
Our editorial team, which has over two decades of solar industry experience, consists of independent experts who value transparency to meet our company's mission of helping homeowners and solar installers. Our work has been cited by major media outlets and publications, like NPR, CNBC, and Bloomberg.
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Our Experts
Andy Sendy
President & Co-founder
Andy Sendy is a well-known and trusted figure within the solar industry with more than 15 years of experience. Andy has sat across the kitchen table with thousands of people who have considered solar as the founder of Solar Wholesalers, the largest solar installation company in South Australia.
Catherine Lane
Content Manager
Catherine has been researching and reporting on the solar industry for over five years, with her work being featured in Solar Today Magazine and Solar Industry Magazine. Her insights have also been cited by outlets like Forbes and Bloomberg, solidifying her reputation as a go-to source for reliable information on solar technology.
Ben Zientara
Solar Policy Analyst
Ben Zientara is a writer, researcher, and solar policy analyst who has written about the residential solar industry, the electric grid, and utility policy since 2013. Ben's work has been cited by a mix of policymakers, advocacy groups, and media outlets.
Jamie Smith
Content Specialist
Jamie is a Content Writer and researcher at SolarReviews, where she has focused on solar accessibility. A recent graduate of La Salle University in Philadelphia, Jamie earned her B.S. in communications with a concentration in journalism, mass media, and public relations.
Deborah Foley
Digital PR Manager
With a decade of marketing and brand experience, Deborah is the Digital PR Manager at SolarReviews. She pushes the boundaries of content creation through a data-focused approach, leading her work to be cited by media outlets like NPR, WHYY, and Bankrate.
Our Partners
We have partnered with the best names in the business. Not only do we work with nonprofits in the industry to create surveys and reports, but they also rely on information provided by SolarReviews.
Frequently Asked Questions About SolarReviews
Who owns the SolarReviews.com website?
SolarReviews is owned by Solar Investments Inc, a Nevada-based company with its main office located in Denver, CO.
How does SolarReviews.com ensure its reviews are genuine?
SolarReviews has a rigorous review auditing process to ensure that the reviews on our website and genuine and accurate.
It is impossible to completely remove the possibility of solar companies writing false positive reviews on themselves, or competing solar companies writing false negative reviews on other companies, but we make every effort to do so.
We use a number of technologies to minimize fraudulent reviews and ensure the reviews you see on SolarReviews are an accurate reflection of the experiences genuine consumers have had with specific solar companies. We do not publish the tests so as not to educate those wishing to misuse the system.
Does SolarReviews allow solar companies who get bad reviews to hide those bad reviews?
No, we don't. You can see this from the fact that some of the largest solar companies in America have bad reviews on our site. It doesn’t matter who you are, your genuine reviews score (good or bad) will be shown on SolarReviews.
Many other review websites such as Yelp do hide certain reviews for commercial reasons, but SolarReviews does not do this.
All reviews that are received and that pass through review audit are included and visible on a solar energy company's profile.
Does SolarReviews allow solar companies to pay them to be listed at the top of search results?
No. SolarReviews does not allow solar companies to pay an amount of money to be listed at the top of search results.
Does SolarReviews weight more recent reviews more highly?
Yes, the SolarReviews reviews ranking algorithm takes most notice of recent reviews. This is why sometimes a company with more reviews or a higher reviews score may be lower than a company with fewer reviews and a lower reviews score, because the latter company may have had more recent reviews.
Solar companies do tend to come and go and so this is why we think more recent reviews should carry more weight.
Why does SolarReviews show solar companies that don’t have an office in my city?
SolarReviews shows companies in the solar companies directories that we know service an area — even if they do not have an office there. There are many solar energy companies that service large areas using third-party installation crews and a centralized sales office.
We provide details of their head office and their nearest office to your location. It is up to you how much weight you want to put on a solar company being truly local.
How does SolarReviews make money?
As stated above, we neither accept payment from solar companies for higher ranking nor for hiding bad reviews.
Our sole source of revenue is that approximately 1–2% of the people that use SolarReviews will wish to get competitive quotes from solar companies. If and when they elect to do so these solar companies pay us a small fee for this lead.