My husband and I used South Coast Solar.  We found them to be very detailed, transparent and…read moresupportive.  There was absolutely no pressure and our rep, Charro Hanahan, was very patient during our virtual and in-person meetings.  She wanted to make sure we were clearly understanding all elements of the process.  Since our initial purchase of 28 panels, we have added a Tesla power wall from South Coast Solar. Our experience with Charro and other members at South Coast Solar has been very professional, punctual, and supportive.

We love our South Coast Solar system, along with our battery backup! Charro Hanahan was our point…read moreof contact through the whole process and made it easy to understand, design, install, and activate our system. We've already seen the bills go down and we are incredibly happy with our choice!

We have quite a complicated system with 2 electrical panels and a legacy solar panel array…read more that produced 6.3KW peak power, but I needed to set up zero export to comply with my insurance. Cape fear sold me a dual battery (EnPhase 5p) with special EnPhase controllers. The salesperson and install teams were very nice, but the support team had the brunt of the challenge and worked tirelessly with the manufacturer to figure out the unique challenges for our environment. Hats off to Kyle and Travis for staying with this to get to the bottom of the issues. We have a utility with 'peak usage' pricing and now we barely use any utility power during the peak periods and stay within the (albeit strange) insurance requirements. Our insurance premium is much less than companies that allow exporting, so this works for us.

They did a fantastic job, kept me informed throughout the entire process, carefully explained each…read morestep and charged a reasonable price. I couldn't have asked for a better partner to install solar on my home!

I would definitely recommend these guys for anybody looking for professional electrical or solar…read morehelp. We contracted Red Wave Solar to take our panels off when we got a new roof because our original solar installer went out of business and these guys have helped us out throughout the whole process making it very easy to work with them especially with the competitive prices the offer!

From the owner: We are your trusted contractor for solar, roofing, and electrical services, committed to delivering…read morereliable and professional projects of any size or complexity. No matter the challenge, we're here to meet your needs with quality craftsmanship and expert care. Contact us today to get a free quote!

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NC Solar Now is a fabulous company. I interviewed several companies and NC Solar Now had the best…read morevalue. They arrived exactly on time and got right to work. They don't sub-contract the work so the staff are all employees of NC Solar Now. I thought was a huge plus and felt they worked really well as a team. They kept me informed of their progress and answered any and all questions I had. After the job was complete, the staff kept in touch with me to provide the next steps which, btw, they complete for the client. Highly, highly recommend!

After going back and forth via email for over a week with them constantly requiring further…read moreinformation in bits and pieces rather than telling me all of the information they would need from me at once for a repair, they told me that as I was in Charlotte they would need to quote me a travel fee. I am not sure how they are allowed to get away with stating they serve all of these different areas in North Carolina when they are going to tack on a travel fee to actually come to your location. They also asked for further information about the squirrel damage I need repaired so they could provide quotes on the equipment and materials needed, saying that would be difficult as they have not been to the site to make an inspection. Again, why state that you serve an area if you will not be able to come out and inspect the site before work is to begin? As I do not have the ability to access my roof on my own and was not given pictures of the squirrel damage found, I am unable to provide details on what kind of equipment and materials they would need to address the repair. They are the solar experts, not me. Very disappointing.

I ordered my Tesla, and an estimate fora wait time of six weeks was given. When the delivery…read morehappened at just two and a half weeks, of course I wasn't ready!! I took delivery, then began to pursue getting an installer. I am so blessed that Atlantic Electric & Solar's CEO Jonathan Johnston was first to contact 24 hours before any of others. He and his crew were hard working gentlemen who tackled a job far more difficult than expected. But they got my EV charger installed and it works perfectly!! If you have a bigger job, give him a call. He drove 40 miles for this install. Since he had worked for Tesla in CA for 6 years, he was familiar with their products. His Unlimited electric license was another reason I knew he would do the job right. Thank you to YELP for this contact!!

I needed to have a Tesla charger installed in my garage and I searched the internet and found this…read morecompany with tremendous ratings and review. I spoke with the owner, Jonathan Johnson, and discussed the ins and outs. When he arrived he completed the job in short order for a reasonable price. This included the installation of electrical conduit from the charging device to the panel and the rearranging of circuit breakers in the electrical panel. I was very impressed with the speed and quality of the work. I have plans for a solar/battery installation and will be discussing it with this company also. I highly recommend them.

I have had my solar panels for 3 years, and was very happy with the installation. It functions as…read morepredicted so I give them 2 stars, but their biggest problem is customer service after installation. One panel stopped working after 2.5 years and while the contract says they will maintain the system for 25 years, it took 2 months to get a service person to come and fix the non-functioning panel. Now at 3 years, I have another panel not functioning. I have tried calling 3 times, waited on the phone for 15-20 minutes for a customer service person, and when the answering machine says I am next in line, a recording comes on and tells me to leave my information and someone will get back to me. But no one returns my calls or messages.

You see 4-star rating and think; this must be a trustworthy company with good products. You must…read morethink; I can count on their expensive products doing what they are selling you. You did some quick research and saw the string of negative reviews that are recent but still let them gaslight you into thinking the company can be trusted and there may have been a few bad apples within the company that were purged from the company after they were discovered. This company is messed up at the roots, they will sell you an expensive product that doesn't work as promised and leave you hanging as every salesperson and project manager disappear and stop responding to calls and messages once the install is completed and the sale is done. I feel ashamed to let them talk me into going solar again as the made false promises and stop responding to my concerns. I've been here before with another solar company that went out of business. I was promised savings on my energy bill but in reality, the saving I was making was immediately negated by the monthly payment of the solar system. I didn't want to be in this position again as when the system stopped working, I paid the full price of the energy bill plus the solar panels. Top Tier sold me system that isn't working because it is not activated and they are slow to respond. I'm paying for the battery and the full price of my energy bill while they drag their feet on activating it. I just thought it wasn't working but they told me poor performance is due to the system not being fully activated and I need to get a permission to operate letter from my power company. The power company is cooperating, but I need Top Tier to actually help me give the power company the information they ask for to get the letter. The project manager drags his feet and doesn't respond, and the sales rep is doing the same. To make things worse they had a quality assurance personnel try to sell me a more expensive solution as a fix. Never again! They wanted to sell me a 22Kw propane gas electric generator to get me off the grid. They already told me the max consumption battery will do just that and give up to 300 credits per month of energy credit. I'm not seeing anywhere near that, and I'm not supposed to trust them with a more costly solution on top of the current solution I'm already paying for? The quality assurance person placed me on speaker phone with a big sales executive who talked like he was pretty high up in the company. He was trying to give me all kind of deals off the price of the product, but I'm already stretched with their current non-working product so it was a hard no for me. I was on the phone with him for well over an hour before he started to gaslight me telling me how I have trust issues and telling his quality assurance specialist who came to my door that it is not her fault and she is doing everything right, that I'm the problem because I have trust issues. Obviously, they are not in my shoes and couldn't care less about my experience with the prior solar company which at least have the excuse of going out of business; a now their company that is actively screwing me over with high prices non-functioning systems that they seem to care less about giving me any kind of priority to get things working while I'm still paying of the loan I took up for their product. They have the nerve to try to sell be a more expensive product while I'm in the middle of this. Solar power is a waste of time, sanity and finances. It will work in niche situations but as long as you have to pay for the system if you don't have the up-front cash for it, you aren't seeing any savings. By the time you pay off the loan, it will be time to get new panels again as they have about a 15 to 20-year lifespan. You are not really saving anything. Save yourself the headaches of having to deal with terrible companies like this to put yourself into expense while the company leaves to high and dry.

These folks are PROFESSIONALS! We had numerous solar folks come in and their first question was…read more"What's your WI-FI password?" What?! Why?! Freedom Solar never once asked for it. Tyler was the sales rep and he was fabulous in NC. The installers were just out of this world! Ray and Jay worked together so well. There should have been another man but his wife had a baby; so a crew from Texas came and helped too. They, too, were fantastic! Eric and Ben along with a fill in from Texas did the electric on different days because of the rain. ALL of the crews were fantastic. I highly recommend them. Tomorrow our county comes and inspects and we should be up and running. Eager to do our part to save the planet. We are very pleased with Freedom Solar!

f you decide to install solar power to your residence be prepared for a lengthy process and a few…read moreissues along the way. I went with Freedom after the initial company I was going to use dropped the ball. Freedom was a little more expensive bemuse we selected the top of the line Sun Power panels. Freedom Solar has a decentralized approach to project management. The sales rep would did the initial presentation was okay - a little shaky on his knowledge base. He said he would oversee the project - after a while he dropped out of sight and everything was done via their customer service department. Overall the customer service reps were good. Couple of issues - getting approval from our HOA. They snail mailed the initial application / fee which the HOA said they never received. Customer service resent and eventually we got HOA approval. My question is how come in this day and age was this process not done electronically. Installation day comes - the electrician shows up and works till after sunset to complete his tasks. The panel installers never showed up - we were contacted at the end of their time window. Instead of rescheduling for the install the next day we had to wait a couple of days for somebody to be flown in from Texas (we are in North Carolina). All the inspections passed without issue. The app is easy to use for monitoring. Time will tell how much benefit we will receive - keeping fingers crossed for positive results. One last annoyance - got an invite to a zoom call to review the system and app - BUT it can't be scheduled for several more weeks. Would have thought it would have been scheduled with in a week of turning the system on. I would have preferred if Freedom Solar had a true project manager who coordinated and communicated all that is going on rather than their decentralized approach.

Freedom Solar has made getting solar almost effortless. The friendliness of the staff has…read moresolidified the feeling that I picked the right company.

From the owner: Freedom Solar is a contractor offering solar panel and backup power installation services for…read moreresidential homes and commercial settings since 2007. We help Raleigh-Durham homeowners and businesses install rooftop solar panels, solar batteries, ground mount solar, off grid solar and solar carport systems. Join the solar revolution today, and save money and resources by generating your own solar power.

8MSolar came through and saved the day for me with my solar installation after a different vendor…read morehad to refund me due to not being able to make the end of year deadline. We started the process in late August after confirming the rebate would end December 31st. These guys did everything they said they would do. Most vendors were booked through the end of the year but these guys took care of business. My PM Rana Mehmood and the site team lead Abraham were A1 professionals and very courteous even when I was freaking out over the holiday crunch. I really appreciate the overall service, the fair quote vs some of the competitors that came in way higher with their qoutes. And I love my solar energy and my free EV fuel.

I DO NOT RECOMMEND. I don't know if any company is worse, or any better. These people fail to…read morefollow up on many aspects of the transaction. It appears that they could care less about anything other than collecting payment. They miscalculated our needs by nearly 1/2 resulting in our still having a significant Utility bill (while having promised me a net-zero bill... their words) . They not once had a Licensed Electrician on site. When you call them out on being dissatisfied, they threaten to walk away from the project (once they've already received a portion of payment). And threatened to cancel our applications with the Utility resulting in complete Solar reapplication process. The installers did a great job, but they were not employees (as promised). We simply had a horrible experience with these people.