Sullivan Solar Power, one of the largest solar installation companies in the San Diego area, has locked its doors, and some of its customers are worried about what will happen to the sizable investments they’ve made on their rooftop solar systems.
Multiple phone calls to Sullivan Solar Power in recent days go directly to voicemail and the doors to the company’s office in Miramar were locked Tuesday morning. No employees appeared to be inside. A fleet of 17 yellow Sullivan Solar trucks sat in the company’s front parking lot and another 17 trucks were parked in the back.
Multiple messages left by the Union-Tribune to the company over the past two days have gone unreturned.
“They haven’t been around in two or three weeks,” a worker at a nearby business in the same office complex as Sullivan Solar said Tuesday morning.
A search of federal bankruptcy records Tuesday showed no filings from Sullivan Solar Power.
According to the company’s website, which is still up, Sullivan Solar has been in business since 2004 and has installed more than 9,000 solar systems for homes and businesses in San Diego, Orange and Riverside counties. It touts a workforce of more than 150.
The company’s Twitter page was also still up as of Tuesday and the most recent tweet, boasting of a five-star Yelp review, was posted Oct. 15.
As first reported by ABC 10News, a slew of angry customers have since posted one-star Yelp reviews in recent days. ” My 2-year solar system is down and I can’t even get anyone to answer the phone,” one said and another posted, “now I’ve got to pull money out of my child’s college savings.”
A fleet of trucks in the parking lot of Sullivan Solar Power in Miramar on Tuesday. The doors to the company were locked and phone calls went to voicemail.
(Rob Nikolewski/San Diego Union-Tribune)
In Carmel Valley, Cromwell Cornillez-Ty had a $14,000 rooftop system installed about a month ago on his two-story house.
Sullivan Solar hired a subcontractor who, Cornillez-Ty said, has yet to be paid by Sullivan, leaving the homeowner potentially exposed to a $6,000 lien on his property. “I can’t blame the subcontractor because they have to be paid,” Cornillez-Ty said. “I’ve tried calling (Sullivan Solar) and nobody responded.”
Bruce Pollock, who had the company install an 8.32-kilowatt rooftop system on his 2,300-square-foot home in Ramona about seven years ago, is worried about the status of his 20-year warranty.
“I’m concerned if my system breaks tomorrow that I will have to pay for it to get it repaired and I don’t even know where I’d go,” Pollock said. He’s also been waiting for months to get an upgrade so he can once again monitor his system’s solar production on a daily basis. </…….
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