At Clean Solar, quality assurance is our top priority. We are recognized as a preeminent leader in the solar and energy storage industry and have received many accolades for our Clean Solar quality installations and unparalleled customer service. In 2024 we added a few new awards. Here is a sampling of independent third-party organizations in which we are listed. Click on the company’s logo to see what homeowners and business owners are saying about us.
Since 2014, Clean Solar continues to be awarded the Top Solar Contractor Award from Solar Power World, based on rooftop solar and battery installations in Northern California, and throughout all of California.
EUPD Top Solar Installer: This is the second year that EUPD Research Sustainable Management GmbH, a leading international research firm, has designated awards for solar companies in the United States. EUPD assesses installation volumes, geographical coverage, and customer satisfaction among various criteria to determine its award recipients. Currently, EUPD presented awards in 22 countries worldwide, and this year Clean Solar was among the 300 best installers worldwide.
The Mercury News hosts the Best In Silicon Valley reader poll every year. Since 2012, Clean Solar has won Best Solar Installer of Silicon Valley and is recognized in their Hall of Fame under the 11-year category.
In 2024, Clean Solar Celebrates 10 years of B Certification! B Lab awards the prestigious B Corporation certification to businesses that balance profit with purpose. As a B Corporation, Clean Solar uses our business’s power to help solve social and environmental problems facing our community and our country. Through our dedication to customer service, transparency, and community engagement, we continually meet the required high standards of B Lab’s certification.
#1 Best Solar Installer by the Morgan Hill Times Clean Solar customers have spoken again! Clean Solar was voted the 2024 Best Solar Installer in Morgan Hill based on an online ballot that featured hundreds of selections in six categories.
The very nature of Clean Solar’s business is to save Bay Area home and business owners money on their electricity bills by generating and storing their own clean, renewable energy. Solar Power subsequently reduces a home’s or businesses’ greenhouse gas emissions. Aligning with its philosophy, Clean Solar has also made tremendous strides to reduce their emissions as a business, and CoolCalifornia honored us as a Small Business Climate Leader.
Clean Solar is thrilled to celebrate an incredible achievement: earning 500 5-star reviews on Yelp! (Filtered and unfiltered.) These glowing testimonials, written by our valued clients, are a testament to the trust and satisfaction our customers feel. We couldn’t be more grateful for their support!
For four consecutive years, Inc. 5000 magazine ranked Clean Solar on its annual, exclusive ranking of the nation’s 5,000 fastest-growing private companies. Clean Solar ranked in the top 20 for all energy companies in California. Clean Solar was the only solar company to rank in the San Jose Metropolitan area during the years 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017.
Clean Solar has received recognition as one of the Bay Area’s Top Workplaces by the Bay Area News Group for two consecutive years. Recognition is based solely on surveys about the workplace completed by the company’s employees. We are the top solar company in the Bay Area to work for!
Clean Solar has an ‘A+’ Rating with the Better Business Bureau. BBB strives to provide an ethical marketplace with high standards of integrity and performance where buyers and sellers can trust each other.
Cleans Solar is an “A” Rated Solar Contractor on Angie’s List. This consumer-driven service creates a diverse forum of graded reviews on consumers’ real-life experience with local service providers.
Best of the Bay KRON Television Channel 4 in 2011 awarded Clean Solar the title of “Best Solar Installer in San Jose.”
On the Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 2015 Best Solar Installer list, Clean Solar ranked #7 overall for kilowatts installed in 2013. We were the top-ranked exclusively residential solar installer. Clean Solar also ranked #3 for the total number of solar systems installed locally in 2013 and ranked #4 for kilowatts of residential systems installed locally in 2013. The Silicon Valley Business Journal stopped producing this report after the California Rebate Program exhausted its funds.
Good Times Magazine in Santa Cruz, California, runs the annual “Best of Santa Cruz” reader poll to celebrate the best local businesses serving Santa Cruz County. In their 2015 poll, Clean Solar was a runner-up for “Best Solar Company.”
From 2012 through 2015, Clean Solar has been voted the “Best Solar Installer” by the Mercury News Reader Poll and even appeared at the top of their Hall of Fame listings as a company that has won this prestigious title 4 consecutive years!
We are pleased that over 56 of our customers have reviewed us on Google reviews, and most of them are 5-Stars. These reviews help new customers understand our philosophy on transparency, honesty and customer service orientation. Read our reviews here!
Clean Solar is proud to announce that we have been given the Silicon Valley Business Journal Corporate Philanthropy Award for 2017. The list ranks the top 50 Silicon Valley businesses for cash contributions to charitable organizations in the 2016 Fiscal year. Clean Solar was 1 of 12 newcomers to the list.
B Corp recognized Clean Solar, among other B Corporations, “Best for the World 2018” in the “Best for Environment” category administered by the non-profit B Lab. The assessment measures a company’s impact on the world.
We are a licensed, bonded, and incorporated solar electric photovoltaic (PV) contractor – CA Contractors License #910849. We are active members of CALSSA, one of the finest non-profit solar and energy storage organizations in California.
We meet or exceed all state requirements regarding liability insurance. Clean Solar carries $1 Million in liability insurance and $2 Million general aggregate insurance.
As solar energy technology evolves, the Clean Solar team keeps up to speed with all technological advancements, class certifications, and workers comp.
Clean Solar partnered with Metro Ed vocational school in San Jose to build and teach the school’s new solar installation class. We built a curriculum from scratch and taught the industry’s future installers the solar industry’s best practices.
