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Nelnet Renewable Energy

Solar energy company · Bloomington, IL

What the listing shows you

4.1★

7 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

14%

rated 1–2★

typical in Illinois, 2%

Newest review held

Feb 2026

newest held review 6 months old

Google's rating breakdown · all 7 reviews

Rated 1–2★
14%
typical in Illinois, 2%
Posted an update
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we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
0%
of the 7 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 12 points above the typical installer in Illinois. Across Illinois, 41 of the 183 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 7 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 Illinois, on one axis

none

1–5%

6–10%

11–20%

over 20%

Every company we hold in Illinois whose Google breakdown has been read, grouped by their share of one and two star reviews. Nelnet Renewable Energy is in the highlighted group.

What reviewers said

  • 1★ · around February 2026

    I'm giving this business a review based on a driver they had in Northeast Ohio. White male beard driving in and out of traffic cutting people off. This is definitely not the type of person you want representing your company. If these are the type of people you hire, what kind of work do you do?

  • 3★ · around August 2024

    Be aware that this company ,Nelnet, uses self deleting e-mail technology. Even if you think you can save or print e-mail correspondence from them there is a disclaimer at the bottom of there e-mails. To me, this is just nasty business. They can promise and write whatever in there e-mails and not be accountable. Disgusting. And did i mention NASTY..........

  • 5★ · around August 2024

    Process was great from start to finish. Reese and Andrew were very responsive to all my questions. Doug and team did a fantastic job getting everything to fit with some tricky space and location constraints. They also worked hard to get things installed in time to meet a very tight rebate deadline for the batteries. System has been working great since it was installed ~4 months ago.

  • 5★ · around August 2024

    Nelnet {GRNE} installed my solar and did a good job it got turned on mid July and the production for two weeks took care of my July Ameren bill. My bills are about $10 and change every month.

  • 5★ · around August 2023

    Thank you all for being part of getting solar installed in my house. You were all so wonderful to get me through (holding my hand when necessary) the process to the installation yesterday. Please know that the gentlemen that worked on my house were fantastic! They were skilled, respectful, helpful and professional. Please let them know how happy and grateful I am to them for all of their hard work. I now have the coolest, bestest house in Urbana thanks to GRNE!

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

  • installation 2
  • system 2
  • process 2
  • system performance 2
  • solar installation 2
  • low electricity bills 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.

  • Warranty

    “solar customer, your workmanship warranty support has been transferred to a…”

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.

  • Cell Electric5.0★ · 12
  • StraightUp Solar4.7★ · 94
  • Route 66 Solar5.0★ · 3

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 Illinois

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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