Sunshine Renewable Solutions
4.8
7.3
Overall Score
Author: Kaitlyn Short
Founded in 2017, Sunshine Renewable Solutions is a solar company based in Houston, Texas. The company’s motto is “doing good by our community and the environment that sustains it.” All of the company’s solar installation crews are trained in-house and not sub-contracted. The company provides renewable energy systems to homeowners and commercial businesses.
Sunshine Renewable Solutions is NABCEP-certified and services all areas of Texas.
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The Good
- Securing Financing
- Product Partners
- Warranties
- Monitoring Capabilities
- Solar Skin
- Customer Service
Securing Financing
Sunshine Renewable Solutions has partnered with Sungage Financial and Sunlight Financial to create an easy loan application process. A customer can fill out a custom loan application to finance their own solar system.
Term limits can vary from 5 to 20 years with an APR starting at 1.99 percent. As a reminder, this type of loan financing qualifies borrowers for certain solar incentives, including the Federal Solar Tax Credit, that can greatly reduce the cost of the solar energy system.
Product Partners
The company’s products come from reputable companies and popular brands, including LG and Tesla, and provides solar panels, inverters, battery backup systems, and electric vehicle chargers. Sunshine Renewable Solutions is a Tesla certified installer.
Warranties
All solar panels and equipment that the company installs are brand new and come with a manufacturer warranty of 12–25 years. The company also offers an additional two-year workmanship warranty.
Monitoring Capabilities
Using a smart inverter, a homeowner can monitor their solar panel system to see its health and solar power production at any time. This allows more insight into how much electricity the system is producing rather than just seeing a change in the electric bill. Sunshine Renewable Solutions also has access to this data and can monitor the system and make sure everything is functioning properly.
Solar Skin
Sunshine Renewable Solutions has partnered with Sistine Solar to provide its customers with Solar Skin. This technology, developed by MIT, makes solar panels blend in with the roofing on any house. The company will place an overlay on the solar array to help it blend in. These overlays don’t inhibit energy production and still allow panels the same access to sunshine for power.
Customer Service
Many Sunshine Renewable Solutions reviews have stated that the customer service they received during their solar panel installation met or exceeded their expectations. The company gives free quotes to anyone interested in solar energy and then works well with customers to keep their solar energy system running efficiently.
Many reviewers state that their energy bill decreased and that they enjoy the clean energy created by solar technology.
The Bad
- Limited Service Availability
Limited Service Availability
Sunshine Renewable Solutions only operates in Texas. This small service area limits the amount of people that could work with this company.
The Bottom Line
Sunshine Renewable Solutions offers a great solar solution for those interested in renewable energy. The option to use Solar Skin to make the solar power system blend in is a bonus for consumers, as well as the well-known partners that the company gets its products from. The company’s reviews say the customer service is great and there are many ways to finance and continue to monitor the efficiency of your solar panel system.
That said, Sunshine Renewable Solutions is only available in Texas, and if you're looking for a solar company with a workmanship warranty longer than two years, then Sunshine Renewable Solutions may not be the best solar company for you.
