Review for CMI Solar & Electric

01/14/2011
Cem Soykan

I am trying to be very critical in this survey, but their up front, honest, and informative sales process won me over when comparing them to a competitor. They also do great Solar REC sales for free on behalf of their customers. It was a wonderful experience working with them. My only frustration was that I started the process in mid summer and it took 5 months to complete it. This was, however, mostly due to paperwork processing on the side of the State government taking longer than anyone expected. Still, I dinged them for this. Otherwise once they had the government and utility permits in place, everything went expeditiously and efficiently.<br />We chose this contractor because they were willing to send us a intermittent paycheck for the SREC`s we generated. The other contractor offered a smaller system at a higher price, but was able to knock the price down dramatically by offering Net pricing, but they also offered to collect all the SREC money and keep it for themselves and pay us a lump sum up front. Unfortunately this large lump sum up front was worth less than 1/3 of what we projected the SREC to probably be worth over a 10 year period. Since we had the funds we chose the project with the higher up front costs, but the shorter full payback of system costs period.

Sales process
Price charged as quoted
On schedule
After sales support