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Alternative Energy Systems | Chico Showroom

Solar energy company · Chico, CA

What the listing shows you

4.6★

112 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

11%

rated 1–2★

typical in Chico, 6%

Newest review held

Aug 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 112 reviews

Rated 1–2★
11%
typical in Chico, 6%
Posted an update
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we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
76%
of the 112 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 5 points above the typical installer in Chico. Across California, 413 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 112 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 Chico, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★55%

Each mark is one company we hold in Chico whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Alternative Energy Systems | Chico Showroom 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

  • 2★ · around February 2026 · the company replied

    Over 10 years ago I gave them 5 stars for a solar install. They are not the company they were 10 years ago. The sales department is just that...in it for sales and had 2 calls in to the service department with questions and never received a call back.

  • 1★ · around September 2025 · the company replied

    AES was the tech service used by the company that leased my solar system. AES no longer works for or with that solar lease company since it filed for bankruptcy. At no point did AES inform me that they no longer performed service for my leased system. I mentioned more than once that the service should be included since it was a leased system, and I should not be charged for any service visits. Never once did AES inform me that they were no longer under contract to provide the required service. Felt misled and caused a service call of $275. I get that the service was done, but never did they tr

  • 2★ · around August 2025 · the company replied

    Hard to leave a review since the work is not done. All you have done so far is make a report on what is wrong and order a cleaning. Which is now almost two months past due

  • 3★ · around August 2020

    If you have extra money to burn I hear they do good work. I built 30% more kW than they quoted for $47,000 and it cost me $21,600 all-in. The people were nice, but their proposal wasn't very impresive because it had errors in it and a misleading financial analysis about the payoff period. They did help me to decide to do it myself, so I thank them for that.

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    Amazing experience from start to finish! Ian and everyone was great to work with. My family had a lot going on personally at the time (death in the family) and we were stressed and also had a lot of questions. AES was nothing but professional the entire time, very patient, timely, and did A+ quality work. Didn’t try to upsell us and we felt they were genuine and trustworthy. Great team. Thanks so much, everyone.

  • 5★ · around May 2026 · the company replied

    I was referred to AES by multiple people. Now that my system is fully activated, I can see why. Starting with sales, Ian did a fantastic job helping guide us to the right system for us. He was very easy to work with and very low pressure. Lots of pertinent questions around current use and future plans (going with an E.V. at some point? age of the roof? what kind of AC - and do you plan on upgrading in the future?). He walked us through a few different options for the system and gave us enough information that we were able to have a lot of confidence in our final choice. Financing options were

  • 5★ · around April 2026 · the company replied

    Always great to work with and very knowledgeable to deal with the problems that arise.

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

  • knowledgeable staff 16
  • communication 11
  • courteous staff 7
  • quality of work 6
  • solar system installation 3
  • smooth process 3
  • sales consultant 3
  • financing 2
  • reasonable pricing 2
  • speed to install 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.

  • Established

    “has been a key member of the AES team since 2013, helping hundreds of homeowners…”

  • Years in business

    “electrical experience and over 15 years of design and installation experience…”

  • Licensed

    “complex issues at their source. A licensed Journeyman Electrician and OSHA 30…”

Its website also mentions free estimate, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

Elsewhere

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

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Monday
9 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday
9 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday
9 AM to 5 PM
Thursday
9 AM to 5 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 Chico

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 6%

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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