Anderson Solar Controls

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

• 5★ · around August 2025

  If you wanna plug something in, call PG&E... But if you wanna go green? Call Anderson Solar Controls! He helped me when I was unhelpable. He rescued me while I was marooned. And he’s so responsive—even for my dumb questions over email. Brian, you outshine any lightbulb. Thanks for being the spark I needed... proof that the best connections are sometimes off the grid. And the best part? You did it all with immense... POS+itivity! (👈pun👉) OHM-azing. It would AMPere that this guy knows WATT he's doing!

• 5★ · around August 2024

  Bought new home. Homeowner didn't disclose solar panels that heated pool leaked like Niagara Falls. They weren't inspected because it was during rainy season. How nice for her! After living here 6 weeks looked for someone who could replace existing system and after many non replies Brian contacted me. He gave me a fair price and a week later finished the job in a day like he said he would He's also followed up a couple of times to make sure all is well. Highly recommend him.

• 5★ · around August 2021

  Brian did a great job on my Solar installation and I value his honesty and care for my roof. Jack

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.

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

• Warranty

  “to get repair costs done under their warranty policies, if possible. ​ Work with…”

• Family owned

  “Anderson Solar Controls is a local, family-owned business serving the greater Bay…”

• Established

  “has been in the solar industry since 1990. He first received his Bachelor of…”

Its website also mentions licence number, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

• It is also reviewed on 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 X and Facebook. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

• CompanyRating breakdown1–2★Newest review held

• Nomadic Solar

  4.9★ · 37 reviews

  0%
  Newest held review this month

• Solar Electric Supply, Inc.

  4.7★ · 20 reviews · Capitola, CA

  5%
  Newest held review 7 months old

• Day One Solar

  4.5★ · 17 reviews

  12%
  Newest held review last month

• Solar Technologies Santa Cruz

  4.6★ · 14 reviews

  7%
  Newest held review 4 months old

• Soltari

  5.0★ · 10 reviews

  0%
  Newest held review last month

• Surf City Pool Spa and Solar

  4.8★ · 9 reviews

  0%
  Newest held review 5 months old

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.
• —Google publishes no street address for this company, so we cannot say which town it is based in. Santa Cruz is the area its listing was returned for, not an address we hold.
• —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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