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Southern Solar

Solar energy company · Norfolk, VA

What the listing shows you

5.0★

216 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

under 1%

rated 1–2★

typical in the Virginia Beach area, 3%

Newest review held

Jul 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 216 reviews

Rated 1–2★
under 1%
typical in the Virginia Beach area, 3%
Posted an update
—
we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
40%
of the 216 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 2 points below the typical installer in the Virginia Beach area. Across Virginia, 54 of the 118 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 Virginia ranking

No. 2 of the 41 rankable records in Virginia →

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 Virginia Beach area, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★35%

Each mark is one company we hold in the Virginia Beach area whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. Southern Solar 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 November 2025 · the company replied

    They lie to you and refuse to give you a contract for the work they did. Do not trust anything they say. The salesman I had was Ernesto. Also, don’t believe the lie they tell you about changing service to Ambit Electric. I have the same bill I had before they conned me into buying 10 more panels. He guaranteed me to not have another bill to pay. He also said they would pay it if I did. Also, they did not pay me for the penalty I got for changing electric companies like he said they would. If you have been scammed by him, call your US Senator.

  • 1★ · around August 2024 · the company replied

    Deceptive sales practices, undercut behind reputable companies and offer a lower price with lower quality equipment and service. STAY AWAY!

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    We are so excited about our solar system to go on the roof. Our monitoring app shows more production than we thought initially. We recommend southern solar. We aid nothing out of pocket and no upfront

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    we recommend southern solar for their solar services. responsive and great installation quality. they did a study of our energy needs and maxed put our solar system.

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    We decided to do the lease program because it had no upfront cost and no financing involved. We just pay a monthly amount to lease the panels. There was no installs and there will be no maintenance cost since everything is included in the monthly lease payment. Southern solar was very responsive and easy to work with. I praise their sales and installation team. Highly recommend them

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

  • professional team 34
  • solar installation 22
  • installation team 19
  • quick installation 16
  • installation process 11
  • informative staff 10
  • no electric bill 8
  • incentives explanation 7
  • helpful consultant 2
  • knowledgeable technician 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.

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

    Elsewhere

    • It is also reviewed on the Better Business Bureau. 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 LinkedIn, Instagram 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 AM to 5 PM
    Tuesday
    7 AM to 5 PM
    Wednesday
    7 AM to 5 PM
    Thursday
    7 AM to 5 PM
    Friday
    7 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.

    Other installers around Virginia Beach

    1–2★3★4★5★gauge 0–20%typical here, 3%

    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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