Next Energy Solution Inc - Shell Lake, Wisconsin

Ken T.

Our experience with NES was great from beginning to end! They helped us navigate the entire process, did a professional job with the installation, and have done a good job with follow-up also. I wanted to wait a bit to give a review to make sure everything works as planned. After five months now I can say It does. In fact, this month we are tracking to export nearly twice as much power as we will import. And because we went with a battery backup system, when we lose power the only way we know is an alert I get on my phone that says, “you have lost connection to the grid.” The lights don’t even blink! Glad we went with the plan we did… works great, saves money, and feels good to go green. Thanks everyone at Next Energy Solutions!

Peter W.

I have had a good experience with NES. A little over two years ago we had NES install 36 panels on our house and garage roof. To our delight, these panels produce a generous amount of electricity. As most people know, the initial investment is steep, but the commitment does eventually pay for itself (in our case 10-15 years). The State and Federal subsidizes together amount to about a one third reduction in our cost of purchase. Perhaps most importantly comes theknowledge that the system produces energy from the sun----a renewable and plentiful resource.
Our experience with NES CEO Foley has been excellent. When there are glitches--and with any project worth doing, glitches arise---Foley has
been immediately responsive and helpful. He follows through true to his word. Foley is honest and trustworthy, as is his helpful Office Manager Stacia. For example a storm knocked out our inverter in mid July 2023. Foley and his team replaced the inverter at no charge, (inverters are covered under a 10 year warranty)
The technicians employed by Foley are also honest, helpful, knowledgeable, efficient, hard working and friendly. They own degrees from certified institutions and are well trained and qualified. These guys did things right for us and answered all questions we have.
The future looks bright for our system as we someday may add some form of a storage system to this so that we have power at night as well as power during a grid outage.
As I stated earlier, purchasing a system like this is not inexpensive, but if one thinks of it as an investment in the future, as well as an endeavor into a measure of energy independence, it is well worth it. For example I delight in telling people that: "I own my own business, yes, and that business is my own power plant. Yes I own a power plant!" Pretty cool?
I recommend NES to anyone who is considering investing in a Solar unit for their home or business.

chris S.

Hi I want to say that NES installed my solar panels with the patriot mount and they work great 👍 my electric bill was reduced significantly and the people at NES are great to work with .

Curt B.

I had won a $10000 solar package from Danbury casino in conjunction with NES.
That was March 25th( Last Saturday of the month)2023. I have yet to get anything from this company and Foley Quinn claimed he would refund me, but have since gotten no response or answered calls. Can't leave him a message as his voice mail is full. Not to be trusted!

Bryan L.

I had 13 pannels and an inverter installed. The whole process took about 6 months. Through just about all of it, communication has been awful. I would go months without hearing anything from them even when I reached out.

The only exception being the contracted installer and actual electrician. They were excellent and kept me informed the whole way through the install.

The system installed looks nice and clean on my house. It really looks quite appealing.

When I signed the quote and put down my deposit, they made it sound like I could get my system installed before the end year. A 2 month time frame, not to unreasonable. This shifted my tax break, affecting my loans for the system.

Now, after the installation, I have to guess that the system is working just fine as they have failed to get me the information for setting up the monitoring app. After 2 phone calls and a week and a half, this hasn't been resolved.

I do t know that I would bother going with them again if I decide to add further equipment in the future.

Nick L.

Had NES design and install a solar setup with battery back up instead of going with a generator style system for home back up. I had my doubts on if it was the right choice, but now couldn't be more pleased with the system. We got everything up and going before the big snow storms in Dec 22 and lost grid power 14 times... never knew we lost power unless we looked at the app. I do not think putting solar in without batteries is getting you the full scope of what the system can do for you. Thanks again NES

Lonnie W.

We had a great experience working with Next Energy Solutions in 2017. We meet their representative at a Mother Earth News Convention and arranged for a visit to our house in Clear Lake, Minnesota. They evaluated our property and gave us three options to mount a solar system. They evaluated our electric usage with us and we developed a plan that would allow us to have no electric bills between April and November while banking excess power with our utility to reduce the winter bills. Our solar panels were delivered as scheduled and they worked with me to determine the best layout for our roof and I finished the installation myself. We have a 15 KW system with 57 panels mounted on our roof. I am proud to be generating most of my own power. I highly recommend NES and their friendly staff.

Grant B.

Absolutely awful experience with NES and just about every person we worked with there. Long story short, the off grid unit was 90% installed after a partial install, a second partial install, and what was supposed to be a final install. NES informed us the issue was sourcing of batteries and some other parts due to COVID. Then we find out NES went onto our property without notice or approval, removed the installed equipment, and sent us a check for a refund. We asked for the owners information to discuss what went on, and now have been ignored since. I just want to let other people know to skip this company and use another. Awful communications, execution, responsiveness, and customer service. We were even accused of being difficult to work with through the whole process even though they had apologized over and over for the continuous issues. Not to mention their marketing material was false advertising for their system storage capacity by saying it was double the actual numbers.