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StraightUp Solar

Solar energy company · Bloomington, IL

What the listing shows you

4.8★

93 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

6%

rated 1–2★

typical in Illinois, 2%

Newest review held

Aug 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 94 reviews

Rated 1–2★
6%
typical in Illinois, 2%
Posted an update
—
we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
100%
of the 94 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 4 points above the typical installer in Illinois. Across Illinois, 65 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 94 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. StraightUp Solar is in the highlighted group.

What reviewers said

  • 2★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    Happy with the initial installation in 2023. However, have had to pay four separate service charges and fees for "mobilization" in the past year due to faulty equipment that eventually had to be replaced along with losing out on the $$$ we should have been saving on our electric bills by having solar.

  • 1★ · around December 2025 · the company replied

    Be very careful when dealing with this company. We had them install solar at our home. During this process their recommended electrician tried to over charge is almost 8 thousand dollars to re run all of our electrical. A local electrician recommended by the electric company did it for 1/4 the estimate. Also they were unaware of local building codes and I had to contact the county inspector my self to have the panels placed where I wanted. Cost of system was 55 thousand. We then were going to have a system at our business installed for 100 thousand. READ every line of your contract. After mont

  • 1★ · around August 2025 · the company replied

    Do NOT go with this company—especially if you are in the Urbana-Champaign area. I had my solar panels installed by them a few years ago. For the second year in a row, the system stopped working during summer—the peak production season. This is what I was quoted just for a diagnostic visit: “This visit will be billable at our current two-tech rate of $212 per hour. There will also be a $275 travel fee for sending these technicians to your home from our Bloomington office. I can give a rough estimate of the visit taking somewhere between 2–4 hours to complete.” That means I’m looking at a minimu

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    Other than being slow to respond straight up solar is a very honest and reputable company to deal with.

  • 5★ · around August 2026 · the company replied

    3 years ago StraightUp Solar installed solar panels on my house in Mahomet, IL. They did all the paperwork for me to obtain the government rebates, as well as all the paperwork for a loan for about half of the project. Their customer service has been top notch. They keep monitoring the panels’ production every day and email me right away if there is an issue. They had to come back several times due to an ‘arc fault’ error that was caused by firmware updates on the inverter. They spent a whole day taking off every panel and redoing the connections between every panel to make sure there was no i

  • 5★ · around July 2026 · the company replied

    Outstanding service. Raymond, a StraightUp technician, contacted me to inquire about the lack of data he was seeing from my system. He was very interested in helping me troubleshoot, and as it turned out, I was experiencing an internet issue which when resolved, put my system back online for monitoring. So great to have someone watching over our production. Another reason I made a great decision choosing StraightUp for my solor equipment and installation. Highly recommend for the prep, installation, and now the monitoring !!! Shine On with StraightUp !! * * * * * Update 7/2026 I continue to be

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 installation 20
  • cost 17
  • helpful team 11
  • quick installation 8
  • federal tax rebate 7
  • kind staff 6
  • professional crew 3
  • power bill reduction 3
  • personable installers 3
  • competitive pricing 3
  • guided process 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

    “likely savings, pricing, incentives, financing options, payback time, and a cash flow…”

  • Warranty

    “of your array, a manufacturer’s warranty on panels, and operations &…”

  • Years in business

    “Company StraightUp Solar boasts more than 17 years of experience in the solar industry,…”

  • Insured

    “a sound, educated decision. We are a fully insured and licensed solar firm in…”

  • Licensed

    “of values-driven , experienced, and licensed professionals has installed over…”

Its website also mentions free estimate, 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 Instagram, LinkedIn, X 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
9 AM to 5 PM
Tuesday
9 AM to 5 PM
Wednesday
9 AM to 5 PM
Thursday
9 AM to 5 PM
Friday
9 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 Peoria

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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