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Live Wire Solar

Solar energy company · Ham Lake, MN

What the listing shows you

4.5★

8 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

13%

rated 1–2★

typical in Minnesota, 1%

Newest review held

Aug 2025

no held review in a year

Google's rating breakdown · all 8 reviews

Rated 1–2★
13%
typical in Minnesota, 1%
Posted an update
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we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
13%
of the 8 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 12 points above the typical installer in Minnesota. Across Minnesota, 14 of the 68 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 8 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 Minnesota, on one axis

none

1–5%

6–10%

11–20%

over 20%

Every company we hold in Minnesota whose Google breakdown has been read, grouped by their share of one and two star reviews. Live Wire Solar is in the highlighted group.

What reviewers said

  • 1★ · around August 2023

    I typically don’t write review, but I have to let people know what I have been going through with this company. I didn’t receive a rebate this year so I decided to dig into what was going on. I emailed Xcel energy awhile back and was told I was not producing since December of last. Within a couple days a technician showed up at my house, without me knowing. The technician talked to my son and gave me a couple numbers to call. Remember I never called this company or was aware they were even coming to my house. I called the 1st number and the guy told me the service manager would be calling me b

  • 5★ · around August 2025

    Live Wire did the electrical work on my kitchen renovation and they were very professional. All work was done timely and they explained things as needed. I was very pleased with the work of Blake and Mason.

  • 5★ · around August 2024

    Our rep, Mark, is much more than just a partner with us (see our story toward the end). In fact, all of our Live Wire guys have been professional, trustworthy and genuinely concerned about us. We always get excellent emails and call-returns that fully explain every question we have – EXCELLENT costumer service! And we were skeptical about green energy to begin with, but Mark walked us thru every aspect of solar energy without any sales pressure whatsoever. (Our story) – I know this isn’t typical at all, but during the height of the supply chain crunch, Mark even sold us the panels he was inten

  • 5★ · around August 2024

    Tim and his crew are very good! Took care of our whole home electrical project which included running wires and final install of electrical light fixtures! Made sure everything was done as we requested and even recommended items we should do that we didn’t think of! Great service! Highly recommend!

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

  • house 3
  • electrical work 3
  • professional staff 3
  • timeliness 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

    “who have been installing solar since 2009, with the combined experience of…”

  • Bonded

    “Wisconsin. We are a fully licensed, bonded, insured, and NABCEP-certified solar,…”

  • Insured

    “We are a fully licensed, bonded, insured, and NABCEP-certified solar,…”

  • Licensed

    “and Western Wisconsin. We are a fully licensed, bonded, insured, and…”

Its website also mentions family owned, but not in a sentence we can quote cleanly.

Elsewhere

  • It is also reviewed on ConsumerAffairs. Worth reading before you sign anything: those are a different crowd, and the complaints that reach the Better Business Bureau rarely reach Google.

When they say they are open

Sunday
Closed
Monday
8 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday
8 AM to 5 PM
Thursday
8 AM to 5 PM
Friday
8 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 in Minnesota

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 1%

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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