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Alder Energy Development

Solar energy company · Charleston, SC

What the listing shows you

4.8★

44 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

5%

rated 1–2★

typical in Charleston, 5%

Newest review held

Aug 2023

no held review in 3 years

Google's rating breakdown · all 44 reviews

Rated 1–2★
5%
typical in Charleston, 5%
Posted an update
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we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
50%
of the 44 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is level with the typical installer in Charleston. Across South Carolina, 54 of the 101 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 44 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 Charleston, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★20%

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

What reviewers said

  • 1★ · around August 2023 · the company replied

    a 45k solar system on a very expensive place. Discovered a leak rotting out my roof hidden under warranty period. . Contacted them and they sent someone out. They blamed roofer. Roofer came and said it was solar installation fault. Contacted solar again to remove panels to get it fixed. Whooops. Told me. They never came to my home. No record of it and now outside warranty. Don’t use these jokers. I spoke with Jonas and then they put me through to Don Zimmerman who is absolutely disgusting on the phone talking over me talking, down to me. R. U. N. UPDATE: I completely disagree with his rebuttal

  • 5★ · around August 2020 · the company replied

    Benny Mosiman took the time to fully explain all the intricate details of my system and the way that Net metering works in South Carolina. He wasn’t trying to “sell me” as much as he was educating me. His proposal was super detailed and forthright. I couldn’t be happier with my system and experience working with Benny. Highly recommend.

  • 5★ · around August 2020 · the company replied

    Benny and his team were amazing, the quote was really competitive with the other companies and they only priced what was necessary for our house unlike other companies who would try to get you to buy more panels than needed. They were really good at recommending the right product for our house. Anytime we have a question there’s always someone to answer it within the hour. If you’re trying to figure out who to go with for solar, pick those guys without a doubt.

  • 5★ · around August 2020 · the company replied

    Benny and his team of talented folks at Alder Solar Energy worked with us from August 2019-January 2020 to get a 5000+kW system up and running on our residential property in GA. We had obtained estimates from 4 companies and extensively reviewed proposals, products, warranties from all. Although Alder's proposal was slightly more than the lowest bid we received, we felt that their responsiveness, previous work history, knowledge of the system and various available products, and integrity were critical in deciding to work with them. We had one estimate from a different company that guaranteed w

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

  • estimate 8
  • bill 6
  • solar energy system 6
  • quote 5
  • roof 5
  • efficient 5
  • communication 4
  • responsiveness 4
  • solar panel production 4
  • 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.

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Monday
9 AM to 6 PM
Tuesday
9 AM to 6 PM
Wednesday
9 AM to 6 PM
Thursday
9 AM to 6 PM
Friday
9 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 Charleston

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 5%

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 found nothing on a website for this company that states a warranty, a licence or how long it has traded.
  • 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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