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Building Energy

Solar energy company · White River Junction, VT

What the listing shows you

4.2★

10 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

20%

rated 1–2★

typical in Vermont, 0%

Newest review held

Jul 2026

newest held review 2 months old

Google's rating breakdown · all 10 reviews

Rated 1–2★
20%
typical in Vermont, 0%
Posted an update
—
we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
100%
of the 10 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 20 points above the typical installer in Vermont. Across Vermont, 6 of the 28 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 10 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 Vermont, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★45%

Each mark is one company we hold in Vermont whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Building Energy 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 March 2026 · the company replied

    I requested a quote to remove the panels on my roof ahead of a roof replacement. It was only for removal. Building Energy was nice to talk with, but the quote was 2-3x higher than what others quoted. Make sure to shop around.

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    I have worked with Brent and Building Energy several times and always had a very positive experience. Most recently, they installed 2 heat pumps in our office, and everything was as smooth as could be. They handled all the permitting and inspections, juggled the schedules, and kept me up to date the whole way.

  • 5★ · around December 2025 · the company replied

    Once again Building Energy did an outstanding job on our house, this time sealing and insulating our crawl space basement. Brent and his team are extremely knowledgeable and kept an incredibly messy job clean and orderly. They were on time and efficient. This is the second insulation job they have done for us. We highly recommend.

  • 5★ · around November 2025 · the company replied

    The Building Energy team helped guide us through a weatherization and heat pump installation project. They were helpful, thoughtful and thorough!

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

  • efficiency 3
  • heat pump installation 3
  • communication 2
  • punctuality 2
  • expertise 2
  • helpful staff 2
  • weatherization 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.

  • Insured

    “Building Energy is fully licensed, insured, and reliable! We offer honest…”

  • Licensed

    “Vermonters. Building Energy is fully licensed, insured, and reliable! We offer…”

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

Elsewhere

  • Google also lists this company under insulation and roofing. A company that does both roofing and solar can handle the roof work a panel install often needs.
  • 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 YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, X and Facebook. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Tuesday
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Wednesday
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Thursday
8 AM to 4:30 PM
Friday
8 AM to 4:30 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.

  • Norwich Solar4.2★ · 5
  • groSolar4.0★ · 2
  • Green Mountain Insulation2.0★ · 1

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 in Vermont

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 0%

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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