Clean Energy Collective Overview
Clean Energy Collective is a clean energy company based in Louisville, Colorado. The company was founded in 2010 and has fast become a leading company in community power generation. With more than 100 community solar projects with 26 utility partners across 12 states, Clean Energy Collective services thousands of customers.
Clean Energy Collective’s mission is to deliver clean power generation through medium-scale facilities that are collectively owned by participating utility customers. The company specializes in offering green energy savings and making credits available to residents, commercial, government, and non-profit entities.
Solar Panels and services offered by Clean Energy Collective
Clean Energy Collective is a vertically integrated company, which means that it takes control of the entire solar installation process for its customers.
Specific Solar Panels Offered by Clean Energy Collective
There is no information about the specific types of solar panels Clean Energy Collective offers.
Specific Types Of Solar Offered
Clean Energy Collective offers roofless solar systems for residential, commercial, non-profit, and government entities. This type of solar panel does not need to be physically located on the owner’s property but can be installed elsewhere.
It is trademarked as RooflessSolarTM by the company. RooflessSolarTM (or Community Solar) is an optimally located solar facility in customers’ utility areas that provides them with credits on their electric bills for the solar power produced by their solar panels. RooflessSolarTM is ideally oriented toward the sun, ensuring optimal solar production with commercial-grade equipment.
Other Services Offered
Online monitoring: The company provides customer tools that make it easy to view the real-time performance and savings of a solar system. These tools include a Community Solar Platform (CSP) software that calculates production and monthly credits for participants and a smartphone app.
Clean Energy Collective caters its products mostly to customers in Louisville, Colorado. In total, the company serves 15 states.
Installation costs and process
Costs
On its official website, Clean Energy Collective has stated that it makes clean energy ownership a smart financial decision by lowering the cost. Also, Clean Energy Collective promotes its community-based model as cost-effective, as it can leverage its “collective purchasing power” to obtain bulk prices.
With RooflessSolar, customers can save 10% on the portion of their electric bills that is offset by their solar systems. In other words, if their systems produce $100 in electric credits, they will only owe $90 for that portion of the bill.
Clean Energy Collective does not have any customer reviews online regarding its exact costs so there is no guarantee that customers in the past have paid the quoted price. However, some reviews have commended the company for its affordable pricing.
Legitimacy
Clean Energy Collective is a legitimate company:
- The company is transparent with its contact details and provides its phone number and email address on its official website.
- Clean Energy Collective has partnerships with many individuals and organizations which include:
Alpine Bank, ANB Bank, Centennial Bank, KeyBank, Great Western Bank, Zions Bank, Northwest Bank, Morgan Stanley, Sooper Credit Union, NBH, US Bank, E First Bank, New Energy Capital, Black Hills Energy, Avista, Colorado Spring Utilities, Dairyland Power, Eversource, NationalGrid, NYSEG, Xcel Energy, Orange & Rockland, Green Mountain Power, Yampa Valley Electric Association, CPS Energy, Midwest Energy Inc., Schneider Electric, First Solar, Advanced Energy, RBI Solar, ReneSola, Jinko Solar, Array Technologies, Hanwha Solar, Accuenergy, San Miguel Power Association, etc.
- The company is headed by its founder/CEO Paul Spencer, a serial entrepreneur who has built 10 companies in the last 22 years within various industries including energy, software, systems engineering, medical, brokerage, and real estate development.
Maintenance
Clean Energy Collective is responsible for the repair, cleaning, or replacement of the panels in the RooflessSolar plan. Customers do not need to worry about installation and maintenance fees.
The company is not very responsive with emails, as our secret shopper attempted to find out more information via email, but received no reply. There are not many customer reviews about this company, however, there were two negative reviews that referred to the company as a scam.
Overall, the data available is too little to make a judgment on Clean Energy Collective’s maintenance services.
The SolarEmpower View
Clean Energy Collective is effectively building, operating, and maintaining community-shared clean energy facilities, as well as aiming to minimize financial barriers. However, due to the lack of customer reviews, we would advise exercising some caution when employing the company’s services.
| Services Offered: 9/10 | Legitimacy: 9/10 |
| Cost: 8/10 | Customer Service: 5/10 |
Contact details
Phone: 844-232-7253; Fax: 970-692-2592
Address: 361 Centennial Pkwy #300, Louisville, CO 80027
Email: [email protected]
