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The Solar Community

Solar energy company · Albany, NY

What the listing shows you

4.9★

68 Google reviews

What it doesn’t

1%

rated 1–2★

typical in Albany, 6%

Newest review held

Aug 2026

newest held review this month

Google's rating breakdown · all 71 reviews

Rated 1–2★
1%
typical in Albany, 6%
Posted an update
—
we saw no owner post, which is not the same as none existing
Replies to reviewers
1%
of the 71 reviews we hold

Its one and two star share is 5 points below the typical installer in Albany. Across New York, 135 of the 247 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 71 review texts for this company, quoted below. Google publishes review ages rather than dates, so every date here is approximate.

On the New York ranking

No. 23 of the 82 rankable records in New York →

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 Albany, on one axis

0% rated 1–2★45%

Each mark is one company we hold in Albany whose Google breakdown has been read, placed by its share of one and two star reviews. The Solar Community 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 April 2026 · the company replied

    It's 2026. Please stop with the pushy door to door salesmen.

  • 5★ · around August 2026

    Thanks Michael T and The Solar Community for helping me out with these credits on my bill

  • 5★ · around August 2026

    Gabriel was awesome! Thanks for being so friendly!

  • 5★ · around August 2026

    Thank you very much to chris how helped us.

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

  • saving money 8
  • energy bill savings 6
  • rebates 4
  • polite staff 3
  • professional team 2
  • clean energy 2
  • community feel 2
  • ongoing support 2
  • quick setup 2
  • solar farm program 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

    “property value for decades to come. Financing available with $0 down. Custom-designed for…”

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

Elsewhere

  • It is also reviewed on Yelp. Worth reading before you sign anything: those are a different crowd, and the complaints that reach the Better Business Bureau rarely reach Google.

When they say they are open

Sunday
9 AM to 9 PM
Monday
9 AM to 9 PM
Tuesday
9 AM to 9 PM
Wednesday
9 AM to 9 PM
Thursday
9 AM to 9 PM
Friday
9 AM to 9 PM
Saturday
9 AM to 9 PM

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.

  • Brookfield4.0★ · 2

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 Albany

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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