Kasselman Solar

Great and professional staff

KS did an excellent job and we now get our electricity from our solar panels!! I recommend them.

Kasselman Solar did a fantastic job installing our new solar electric system. I highly recommend them to anyone that is considering a solar install. They don't do solar leases which, in my opinion, look great up front but are only good if you have no other options. You will save more by buying your system outright. And if you have to sell your home, the installed system will be considered an asset instead of a liability. Everyone that I worked with at Kasselman was excellent. They were on time with everything and actually installed the system ahead of schedule. The original timeline was for the system to be installed in six to eight weeks after the contract was finalized. They actually did our install a little over five weeks from the original arrangement. Our up front cost was $19,494.00. After tax rebates, our net cost will be $8,772.30. Kasselman employs electricians for their main business. During our system install, there wasn't enough room in our old main electric panel to do a 'side line tap'. So they replaced my entire main panel including all of the breakers and didn't charge anything extra! I offered to pay something extra as I know this was a hugh expense and a benefit to me. They refused to accept any additional money for the extra work! I can't say enough about what a great job they did. They exceeded all of our expectations! Our old system was installed by GroSolar: We already had a 4.59k solar system installed nine years ago. That system provides about half of our electric needs for each year. The old system uses two string inverters to convert DC power to AC power before it feeds into our main power panel. They did an excellent job on that install as well and it still performs very well today considering it is using the older technology. Our new system that was installed by Kasselman Solar: We added another 5.41k system in May of 2016. The system utilizes microinverters on each of 19 - 285 watt SolarWorld panels, made in Hillsboro, Oregon (USA). This newer technology allows each panel to operate independently and operate on different plains. This means the panels can be at different angles compared to other panels. If there is shading on one panel, it doesn't impact the output of other panels. This was a big consideration for us because our old system was installed on one roof all together. Our new system has panels on different roofs, facing in different directions and at different angles to the sun. The electricity is converted to AC, by a microinverter at each panel, fed to a central box and then into our main electric panel. We can monitor our system on our phones. Also, Kasselman monitors each panel individually and can identify any panel issues remotely. The system has been running for almost a month and our electric meter is flying backwards! Adam Jordan was the main person I worked with to get my contract finalized. He and everyone at Kasselman are top notch! Between our two systems, we should get about 100% of our electricity from solar every year!

We can't recommend Kasselman Solar highly enough! We talked to several companies before going to see a presentation from Kasselman Solar. Adam took the time afterward to answer all the questions that the other companies wouldn't or couldn't. At the time we had only recently moved in, so Adam waited patiently over months while we acquired enough time in the house to accurately estimate our energy needs, checking in periodically without pushing. Once we were ready to go ahead we got to work with the rest of the Kasselman team, and each person who contacted us was informative and responsive to our needs and questions - everything from financing options to building permits! The installation crew was polite and professional, and took care to make sure that the installation went exactly as we'd hoped. They checked in with us for our opinion on how we wanted them to wire our multi-level array (behind the decorative exterior molding or through the crawlspace and up inside the wall to the attic?) - they even asked whether we'd like them to take their shoes off in the house! They left the yard almost exactly as they found it, and took care not to damage the gardens under their workspace. Now that everything is in place, our monitoring system shows that one of the microinverters isn't reporting. We contacted Kasselman and they already have someone on the schedule to replace it. Very impressed!

I'm on a contract but they haven't installed it yet. Its a 9.9 kilowatt system. I got them through Angie's List. I chose to use them because they were using American made products and they've been around for a bit.