Only 13% Of Solar Companies Have A Solid Grade - Find Out Why & Where Yours Ranks
43 of the 49 solar companies analyzed have a state attorney general action, a federal complaint, or a bankruptcy on their books! Find out where your installer ranks today.
The short version: Six of the 49 residential solar companies in our database come back clean on the public record. The other 43 have a problem. Your installer is probably one of them. Find out where yours ranks in five seconds.
Six of the 49 residential solar companies in our database come back with a solid grade. That is 13%. The other 43 have a problem on the public record. The odds say your installer is one of them.
Here is what shows up when you look. And what to do about it.
The 13%
A solid grade means no state attorney general action, no federal CFPB or FTC complaint, and no bankruptcy filing on the records we search. Six companies clear that bar.
We give those six a B. The label is "Verify Your Standing." Because no enforcement on the public record is not the same as a clean bill of health. Public records lag the kitchen table by years. Pull your contract anyway.
If your installer is not one of those six, the question is which kind of not-one-of-them you are holding.
The other 87%
We grade every company on five categories of public-record data. State attorney general filings. Federal CFPB and FTC actions. Bankruptcy and market-exit filings. Statutes cited in any of those actions. The recency of all of it.
When a company has something on the record, it lands somewhere between C+ and F. Here is what each tier means in plain English.
C+ (5 companies) - Cause for concern. Documented exposure on record, but every action is at least three years old and resolved with no recurrence since. Worth knowing about. Not an alarm.
C (29 companies) - You Are At Risk. Active or recent documented exposure. State attorney general lawsuits. Federal class actions. Settlements running into the millions. Your contract may be tied to one of these patterns and you may already be paying for it without knowing.
D (5 companies) - Take Action Today. Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization on record. Once a company files for Chapter 11, the warranty becomes a creditor claim in federal court. The loan does not. The roof stays your problem.
F (4 companies) - Get Immediate Help! The floor. Chapter 7 liquidation, market exit, or multi-state attorney general defendant. The company you signed with may no longer exist. The financing still does.
Almost nine of every ten residential solar companies on our list have either documented exposure or have already failed structurally.
Sal says: The cheapest way to find out something is wrong is before the next bankruptcy filing. Before the next press release. Before the next homeowner like you wonders why their bill went up and the company stopped picking up the phone. The report card is free. Five seconds. No login. No sales call.
Why your installer is probably not one of the 13%
Math. Six clean out of 49 is roughly one in eight. Spread across hundreds of thousands of solar contracts signed in the last five years, the odds are simply against your installer being in that small slice. It is not a personal failure. It is industry shape.
Some of the names in our C tier will surprise you. They are not fringe operators. They are brands you have heard of. Brands that knocked on your door. Brands that had a booth at the home show. Brands that closed deals on smartphones at your kitchen table. Their record on the public docket is the part you did not see when you signed.
You will see it in five seconds when you pull the grade.
Sal says: A B grade from us does not mean a company is good. It means we could not find documented enforcement against them in the records we searched. That is the most a company can earn from us until we can verify positive operating history independently. We do not grade what we cannot source.
The first step
Pull your installer's name. Five seconds. No login. No sales call. The report card tells you which tier you are in, what is on the record, and what it means.
If you are in the 13%, peace of mind costs nothing. If you are in the other 87%, you have answers. And you have time to do something about it before the next press release hits.
Pull your grade at solarhomeadvocate.com/eagle-eye.solarhomeadvocate.com/eagle-eye.**
Because the cheapest moment to learn your company's record is the moment you have it in front of you.
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The Eagle's Eye grades residential solar installers, finance companies, and dealer networks on five categories of public-record data. Full methodology and challenge process at solarhomeadvocate.com/eagle-eye/methodology.solarhomeadvocate.com/eagle-eye/methodology.*