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1st Light Energy

Solar energy company · Manteca, CA

What the listing shows you

3.9★

76 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

26%

rated 1–2★

typical in California, 1%

Newest review held

Jan 2026

newest held review 7 months old

Google's rating breakdown · all 76 reviews

Rated 1–2★
26%
typical in California, 1%
Posted an update
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we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
0%
of the 21 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 25 points above the typical installer in California. Across California, 170 of the 1,529 installers whose breakdown Google has published carry a higher share than this one.

The percentages are Google’s own arithmetic over every review it holds, not a sample we assembled. Separately we hold 21 review texts for this company, quoted below. Google publishes review ages rather than dates, so every date here is approximate.

Every company we hold in California, on one axis

none

1–5%

6–10%

11–20%

over 20%

Every company we hold in California whose Google breakdown has been read, grouped by their share of one and two star reviews. 1st Light Energy is in the highlighted group.

What reviewers said

  • 1★ · around January 2026

    We decided to go with Semper Solaris instead - a lot of bad vibes, bad reviews from 1st light. Buyer beware

  • 1★ · around August 2025

    People be ware!!! Do not use this solar company and Mosaic solar company bc they lie nothing is covered under the lease and only take your money and don't do any My system broke and when I reached out to Daniel Hargus he told me I have to pay for looking at the system and pay if they have to come out again and pay if they have to fix it. I'm very disappointed and disatified.

  • 1★ · around August 2025

    Please beware! I had my system installed by them about 8 years ago. They were quick to respond and did a really great job installing. The system has worked really well and hasn’t had any problems until this past June when the inverter unexpectedly died. The solar inverter manufacturer (SolarEdge) was quick to send out an RMA’d unit which was really helpful. The sad part is that 1st light energy wasn’t just slow to respond, but they never responded after 4 attempts. I’ve lost prime energy months and now had to reach out to other companies for help which includes much more than increased costs.

  • 5★ · around August 2024

    I want to thank Annessa Torres for her excellent service for my company solar she make sure I understand the service & the power from the Solar

  • 5★ · around August 2023

    1st light is by far one of the friendliest and most professional vendors we come across at Public Storage . They are efficient and did I mention fast ! thought this project was going to take months and they were finished before I even knew …

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.

What reviewers keep mentioning

  • friendly staff 11
  • payment 10
  • bill 6
  • july 3
  • house 3
  • vendors 3
  • warranty 3
  • table 2
  • workers 2
  • solar installation 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.

What the company says about itself

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

  • Warranty

    “of all issues from consultation to warranty. Trust your energy needs to the solar…”

Elsewhere

  • It is also reviewed on the Better Business Bureau and Yelp. Worth reading before you sign anything: those are a different crowd, and the complaints that reach the Better Business Bureau rarely reach Google.
  • It posts on LinkedIn. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Monday
8 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Thursday
8 AM to 5 PM
Friday
8 AM to 5 PM
Saturday
Closed

As Google published them when we last read the listing, not a live check. Ring before you drive anywhere.

Who Google shows alongside them

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

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.

Other installers around Manteca

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 1%

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.

What we don't know

  • 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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