1 Source Solar

Each mark is one company we hold in the Des Moines area whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. 1 Source Solar is the red one. The amber line is the middle of that set, which includes suppliers and maintenance businesses as well as installers.

• 1★ · around August 2025

  Don’t lie about somebody getting the job and then refuse to answer the phone for a month, And then try to convince me that I’m lying on the phone

• 1★ · around August 2025 · the company replied

  If 0 stars were an option that’s what I would rate this company. We have paid over $50,000 to have our solar panels at a stand still of when they will be turned on. We were promised a date and it’s WELL past that. Haven’t seen any action in 6 weeks. The representative keeps saying “I’ll get to the bottom of this” and then doesn’t respond. Something better get figured out QUICKLY or we have no choice but to take legal action! This is absolutely ridiculous!! Doesn’t help that the company doesn’t even answer the phone either. I will NOT recommend this company to anyone infact I will encourage peo

• 1★ · around August 2024 · the company replied

  ZERO STARS. Avoid this business. After 18 months of gaslighting, refusing to perform on the contract or return my $5,000 deposit, I contacted the office of the Iowa Attorney General in December 2023. Once the IAG got involved, my deposit was returned in full in less than 2 weeks.

• 5★ · around May 2026

  Over a year ago, I had my solar panels installed by a company that later filed for bankruptcy. When my solar panels stopped working, there was no longer any tech support. 1 source solar was willing to come out and take a look. Cody got my panels back up and functioning in under 15 minutes. So grateful they were willing to help provide service even though they weren't the installer.

• 5★ · around February 2026

  Nathan was our go to guy from start to finish on our 12.9 kWp ground mount system. He was great, always polite, professional and prompt. He walked us through the whole process and politely answered all the questions we asked. The install crews were also polite and professional. The system looks great and is working as proposed. Two thumbs up!

• 5★ · around February 2026 · the company replied

  All set in Newton Iowa. They are right. It takes 6 months to get it up and going. My experience was they would work on one thing, take the rest of the month off and come back the next month for about every project they started. Our system was approximately 58K and we will hopefully get about 17K back in tax breaks. I asked for 100% free electric bills in the amount of panels we put up. First month (August) it was free electric. 2nd month (September) is we used $272 in electric and our solar panel created $164 in free electricity. So my bill the 2nd full month was we "get" to pay $124 which was

Reviewer names are not published here. Negative reviews are shown first because they are the ones a listing hides, not because they are more representative.

• pricing 11
• solar project 10
• installation crew 8
• informative staff 4
• reasonable cost 3
• excellent contractors 3
• fast installation 3
• utility bill reduction 3
• renewable energy investment 2
• solar panel repair 2

Topics Google derives from the review text, with how often each appears. A frequent topic is not a good one: “price” turns up in praise and in complaints alike.

Taken from its own website. We have not checked any of it, and a sentence on a website is not evidence.

• Warranty

  “and save you money sooner. 5-year warranty. We do it correctly the first time,…”

• Years in business

  “operations run smoothly, bringing more than 25 years of experience launching and growing…”

Its website also mentions financing and established, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

• It posts on Instagram and Facebook. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

Google’s own “people also viewed” set, in Google’s order. It is Google’s comparison, not ours.

• CB Solar Inc.4.9★ · 31
• The Solar Guys5.0★ · 11
• 515 Solar4.7★ · 14
• True Energy5.0★ · 13
• Heartland Solar Solutions5.0★ · 2

The ones without a link have no page here, either because Google does not categorise them as solar businesses or because we could not match the name to a listing with confidence.

• CompanyRating breakdown1–2★Newest review held

• True Energy Systems

  5.0★ · 169 reviews · Tiffin, IA

  1%
  Newest held review this month

• Midwest Solar Installers

  4.8★ · 155 reviews · Waterloo, IA

  4%
  Newest held review this month

• PowerFilm Solar

  4.8★ · 43 reviews · Ames, IA

  2%
  Newest held review this month

• CB Solar Inc.

  4.9★ · 31 reviews

  3%
  Newest held review this month

• 515 Solar

  4.7★ · 14 reviews

  7%
  No held review in a year

• True Energy

  5.0★ · 13 reviews · Johnston, IA

  0%
  No held review in 4 years

Ordered by how much we can tell you about each, which is not an order of quality. We do not know which of these is better and would not say if we did.

• —The date above is the newest review we hold, which is not necessarily the newest that exists — we hold a large share of Google's reviews, not all of them.
• —We do not verify licences, insurance or bonding. Nothing here has been checked against a state licensing board.
• —We cannot tell you what an installation costs, and we hold nothing about the equipment they fit.

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