As of June 17, 2025, this is a complete redo of the written content of our website. For 17 years our website has said basically NOTHING because that is the industry standard. We are giving you the straight story and if it leads to us developing a transactional relationship, GREAT! If this new and candid website leads to something beyond a transaction...ALL THE BETTER!

And if it feels like we aren’t a good fit for you, that’s fine too.

So without further ado:

Sun’s Free Solar opened its doors out of Alameda in 2008, and looking back now solar and home storage (batteries) have come a long way. Around 2013 we began to offer EV charger installation. We have always been a small, locally owned and operated business, and that model will stay with us because we offer a different experience to our clients.

Frankly, the quality of our customer experience has a lot to do with some shared values that everyone on our team feels aligned with:
 

*We live and work locally.

*We take 3 day weekends to ensure that we are well rested and that we really connect with the people in our lives when we are together.

*if it's not right, it's not right. No matter what it is, we take time to do things carefully and methodically. Getting things done as quickly as possible is a short sighted approach to construction.

That’s basically it. We are skilled tradespeople, but then there are a lot of skilled tradespeople. We are happy and grateful skilled tradespeople. That approach to our career choice is why we are still here and going strong when so many solar companies have come and gone.

There are 3 essential components to anything we install in your home (solar, batteries or EV chargers) and this we have learned from experience:

Number 1, most important: It has to work! The equipment we mounted to your home has to be a quality piece of equipment and installed with precision.

Number 2, still very important: If for any reason the equipment we install fails (because to be perfectly honest the batteries are still a relatively new product on the market and while they are much better now, the first few years were rough) or any other parts or even our method of installation...the support and resolve has to be an extremely high priority. That means we show up and we get any manufacturer we are working with to support their product.

Number 3, this may sound indifferent, but...The price: This is not to say that we are more expensive than the others, but we are not in a race to the bottom either. We honor that the endeavor to install Solar and/or Batteries is an expensive undertaking. We offer a value to that commitment you have made, a value like you can pick up the phone and speak directly to the person that installed your equipment.

This is what we call the “20 year relationship”. We are in this together. We want to be happy to see you at Trader Joes or wherever and we want you to say (something like), “The Sun’s Free crew is really great...nice people...considerate...clean” when your friends and coworkers ask about your home energy upgrade.