Golden Bear Solar

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

• 1★ · around August 2024

  Called these guys repeatedly to come out to do some required maintenance on an existing system. Mostly ignored my calls and messages. Finally got a call back, they promised to follow up but never did.

• 1★ · around September 2022

  Guys seem nice enough. Here’s a photo of a few items they “left behind”. This is just one side of the house. I’ll add another photo after I do a walk around the rest of the house. Sloppy. UPDATE: Found another piece of heavy gauge copper in the turf area of the back yard. I guess none of these guys have kids that play in their yards?

• 5★ · around September 2024

  I had a relatively small job for Mike and his crew, but they were more than willing to accommodate. Golden Bear removed and reinstalled my system for a re-roofing project when the original installer was un-interested in helping out. Other companies quoted astronomical prices for a such a simple job. Golden Bear's quote was reasonable and transparent, and they were amazingly flexible on scheduling around our roofing project. Crew was clean and professional. Highly recommend!

• 5★ · around September 2024

  Was a pleasure working with Mike Thompson & Golden Bear Solar for our solar PV (10kw) + Enphase battery (20 kwh) set-up in Palo Alto. From the first contact for getting the proposal till the final installation, Mike was straightforward and good to work with. He did a great job getting our system designed, deployed and approved in the city of Palo Alto, which has some of the more complex/ complicated permitting requirements in general for solar. He and Jack were fun guys and clearly knew what they were doing, I'm glad I discovered them (thanks to a neighbor's recommendation) after having worked

• 5★ · around August 2024 · the company replied

  Great experience before, during and after the installation of Enphase panels, batteries and switchgear. Mike and his crew were always responsive and exceeded expectations.

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.

• batteries 4
• responsive crew 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.

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

• Established

  “forefront of solar energy solutions since 2009. As California wildfires grow more…”

• Years in business

  “Since 2009 Golden Bear Solar brings over 17 years of expertise in designing and…”

Its website also mentions free estimate, 24/7 availability, family owned and licence number, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

• 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 YouTube, LinkedIn, X and Facebook. A page that stopped posting years ago tells you something a listing will not.

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

• Cinnamon Energy Systems, Inc.4.8★ · 105
• Golden State Solar4.5★ · 2

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.

• CompanyRating breakdown1–2★Newest review held

• All One Solar Shine

  4.9★ · 291 reviews

  1%
  Newest held review this month

• Porter Solar Solutions

  5.0★ · 219 reviews

  0%
  Newest held review this month

• GAF Energy

  2.0★ · 102 reviews · San Jose, CA

  73%
  Newest held review this month

• Semper Solaris

  4.5★ · 94 reviews

  13%
  Newest held review last month

• Earth Electric Inc

  4.9★ · 53 reviews

  2%
  Newest held review last month

• California Glass and Solar

  5.0★ · 28 reviews

  0%
  No held review in 2 years

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.
• —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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