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Maine Solar Solutions

Solar energy company · Freeport, ME

What the listing shows you

4.9★

216 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

1%

rated 1–2★

typical in the Portland area, 2%

Newest review held

Aug 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 216 reviews

Rated 1–2★
1%
typical in the Portland area, 2%
Posted an update
20 days ago
the company posting to its own Google profile
Replies to reviewers
99%
of the 216 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 1 point below the typical installer in the Portland area. Across Maine, 22 of the 43 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 216 review texts for this company, quoted below. Google publishes review ages rather than dates, so every date here is approximate.

On the Maine ranking

No. 3 of the 16 rankable records in Maine →

Ordered by the share of one and two star reviews, weighted by how many reviews stand behind it. It ranks review records, not workmanship.

Every company we hold in the Portland area, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★20%

Each mark is one company we hold in the Portland area whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Maine Solar Solutions 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 August 2025

    We were mislead to the point of feeling lied to about how the solar tax credits work. We were told we would receive the tax credits and be able to apply that money to the loan and get the payments down to where we needed them to be. They showed us a chart of loan payments with the tax credit amount removed to calculate the payments. You do NOT get the solar credits back as a cash value. Those credits are only useable if you owe taxes at the end of the year. You could conceivably never be able to use them if you never owe taxes at the end of the year. Stuck with a payment that’s well above what

  • 1★ · around August 2024

    They sent their experts to come assess where the best spot for the solar to go and of the 4 acres they decided in the woods was a good idea. They barely cleaned up the mess they left in my basement (even though I left out an shop Vac and a broom) and they ran over my leach field. So now half of our panels get about 60% sun and I’m going to have to hire someone to come out and clear the trees. All in all I cant recommend them. we were excited to finally go solar but now are disappointed in the work we were left with and we’ll have to pay more then we expected. The workers were nice but that was

  • 1★ · around August 2024 · the company replied

    I waited several weeks for a site visit and then several more to be told they didn’t want to install additional panels at my home.

  • 3★ · around August 2025 · the company replied

    They were quick on getting us a quote. I highly recommend getting multiple quotes though. I had 2 other solar companies tell me my house is too shaded for solar panels. MSS quoted be around $40k to install panels and never mentioned our house being too shaded. I am glad we didn't move forward on a project that wouldn't have really benefited us. I emailed them asking about this discrepancy and just never heard back. 🤷

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    MSS installed solar panels along with inverter and battery for our off grid camp. Phil and his crew were very efficient and courteous. The entire crew worked together and knew what had to be done. When they left the site was clean and you wouldn’t even know they were there. Once they were done we had MSS electricians come in and wire our camp and upgrade some old wiring. Connor and Trenor listened to what we needed to have done, again they were efficient and courteous and the site was clean and wired the way we wanted. Both the Solar crew and Electricians gave us a date and time and were alway

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    I can only say that my wife and I are extremely please with the entire process of purchasing through installation of our solar system. Maine Solar Systems has kept us up-to-date every step of the way. The Teams is personable and knowledgeable about all the permitting. The installation Team did a fantastic job - very neat and clean. They used Enphase equipment which is made in the U.S.A. They only needed one day to install our system and then walked us through it. We would like to thank Peter and Delano for their assistance! They found a way to make the system affordable. If you are considering

  • 4★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    Our solar panels and battery backup went live in June and I couldn’t be happier! , Although we are blocked from getting direct sun later in the day, we still get eight or nine hours of good sunlight, enabling a good buildup of energy stockpile during the day and battery usage during evening hours. We have had a couple of outages but had we not gotten a text we wouldn’t have noticed. System is running fine, a major asset to the house . Panels are virtually invisible on the roof

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

  • solar panel installation 29
  • courteous staff 18
  • installation crew 17
  • quick installation 16
  • ahead of schedule 9
  • efficient crew 9
  • drone survey 5
  • friendly employees 4
  • grid connection fee 2
  • energy monitoring app 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.

  • Financing

    “information on those components, and financing options so that the customer can make an…”

  • Licensed

    “NABCEP-certified professionals and licensed electricians, we bring expertise,…”

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

Elsewhere

  • Google also lists this company under electrical and heating and cooling.
  • It posts on YouTube, Instagram, 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
7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Tuesday
7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Wednesday
7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Thursday
7:30 AM to 4:30 PM
Friday
7:30 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.

Other installers around Portland

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 2%

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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