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Solar Chief

Solar energy equipment supplier · Columbia, SC

What the listing shows you

3.5★

22 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

36%

rated 1–2★

typical in Columbia, 6%

Newest review held

Aug 2024

no held review in 2 years

Google's rating breakdown · all 22 reviews

Rated 1–2★
36%
typical in Columbia, 6%
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 22 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 30 points above the typical installer in Columbia. Across South Carolina, 8 of the 101 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 22 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 Columbia, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★65%

Each mark is one company we hold in Columbia whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Solar Chief 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 2024

    No answer, Went by there and they are out of business!!

  • 1★ · around August 2020

    These guys signed a contract to install and took $11,310 from their partner credit union without telling me. The installer came to pick up the equipment and then it wasn't at the warehouse. They stopped returning all calls and emails from me, the installer, or the bank, I only get bounce backs saying the person on the contract for Solar Chief is not in the country. They are a complete fraud do not even think about signing a contract. We are contacting police for theft and fraud.

  • 1★ · around August 2020

    The contract requires you to sign it with installation , not activation. We are paying the loan since May 2019... but 50% panels were working. they got satisfaction signature from us with verbal and written threats to put a lean on home and fast pace a sale of home. 8month later 25% job pannels not working not cable connected to inverter. Confirm with better business beaurea or Yelp. They paid for someone to clean complains from reviews.

  • 5★ · around August 2020

    Hard working and always tries their best to have everything fine in a timely manner! Great customer service!

  • 5★ · around August 2019

    Cash is the man! He was our solar consultant and took care of us from the first time we met him. Our system was installed today and looked great. He was there to make sure we did not have any questions about what was going on. Couldn't be more excited to get our system turned on!!

  • 5★ · around August 2019

    Solar Chief did a great job putting panels on my 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

  • company 7
  • system 4
  • roof 4
  • contract 4
  • pay 3
  • bill 3

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

    “and are looking for. We also have financing options for every budget. Solar…”

  • Warranty

    “well as an industry leading 25 year warranty. So if you are just getting started…”

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 around Columbia

1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 6%

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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