Spruce Power Inc. is an unreliable company
I purchased a 7.8 kW solar array system from West Coast Solar, based in Brentwood, California, back in May of 2014. The contract refers to a "solar provider" who is responsible for maintaining my system "in good operating condition at our cost and expense" for a 20-year period.
The original "solar provider" was a company called Integrys based in Los Angeles. For the first 8 years, the system operated with no problems. Then in year 9, I noticed one of my two garage inverters was displaying a red light and could see it was not passing on any electricity generated by half of my 26, 300w LG panels (the inverter panel displays - "Electr. arc detected," and "Check DC generator").
In 2020, Spruce Power, based in Houston, Texas, acquired my contract from Integrys, so I contacted Spruce to let them know the issue I was having. It took them two months before they sent a technician to my home to evaluate the problem.
After determining that one of my panels had broken, they had to order a new panel. It took them another two months before they replaced the broken panel and had my system running up to full capacity again.
In August of this year (2025), I again noticed the same inverter was displaying the same red light message, so I contacted Spruce. At first, I was told they would "monitor" my system for 1 month and then determine whether to send a technician to diagnose the issue.
After that month expired, I was then told they had to monitor my system for 3 months before deciding whether to send a technician to my home. Of course, during this now 3+-month period, I am losing electricity production because my solar system is only working at 50% capacity. This was clearly evident when I looked at my system's power production on Spruce's website (October 2025 production was 406.224 kWh compared to October 2024 production of 777.715 kWh).
Now that it's halfway through November, Spruce has still not taken any action to correct the issue with my solar system. My contract does not state that the "solar provider" can take as much time as needed to keep my system in good operating condition.
Spruce is deliberately stalling to fix my system because they have to pay for any repairs per the contract. They keep giving me one excuse after another. There was no need to "monitor" my system because they should clearly see that my solar system production has been operating at only a 50% capacity due to the inoperable inverter.
Spruce has consistently provided horrible customer service, and they should not be in business.
August 4, 2025
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