Buffalo Solar Solutions, Inc.

If you run a business with a big flat roof, get the quote. If you are a homeowner, call first and ask whether they still take residential jobs, because the company's own website no longer says so. Start with the name, since three versions are floating around. The Google Maps listing says Buffalo Solar. The New York Department of State has two entities: Buffalo Solar Solutions, Inc., filed January 14, 2015, DOS ID 4693881, and Buffalo Solar, LLC, filed August 22, 2018, DOS ID 5397553, both in Erie County. The city license and the NY-Sun contractor record both run under Buffalo Solar Solutions, Inc., so that is the entity this profile grades and the one that should appear on your contract. Founder and CEO Tyler Uebelhoer says it started in his South Buffalo living room in 2015; BBB dates the business start to October 1, 2014. We use 2015, which matches the corporate filing.

On licensing, New York has no statewide contractor license, and the Village of Depew, where the company is based, licenses only plumbers. So the credential that counts is the City of Buffalo record: Light Commercial Contractor LTC22-10061203, active, applicant Tyler Uebelhoer, expiring September 30, 2026, which is five days after this data pull. That is the only row the city dataset returns for the name. There is no master electrician license under any Buffalo Solar name, which means the electrical work on a Buffalo job runs under someone else's MEL. Ask whose. The second half of the New York lane is stronger. The NYSERDA contractor directory could not be read, but the official NYSERDA project dataset lists 527 completed projects with Buffalo Solar Solutions, Inc. as contractor of record, 466 of them residential and 61 non-residential, with an application received as recently as February 12, 2026. Government data says this company has installed hundreds of home systems. Its website says it is a solar development and EPC company serving organizations across New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New Jersey that specializes in commercial and industrial rooftop solar, and its homepage lists manufacturing, warehousing, schools, and healthcare. Both things are true. The history is residential; the pitch today is commercial.

The warranty is the best-documented one in our Buffalo research, and you should read it as a contract, not a slogan. The 15-Year Peace of Mind Warranty covers workmanship, parts, and labor for the full term and roof penetration points with leak remediation, with a $500 deductible per service incident and coverage capped at $50,000 per location. Those two numbers are the point. A deductible and a cap are normal in a real warranty and rare in a marketing page, and knowing them before you sign beats discovering them at the first service call. Note the applicability clause: coverage applies when the system is installed and serviced by Buffalo Solar or its approved affiliates, which sits a little awkwardly next to the same page's claim that it handles everything in-house. Ask who the affiliates are. On complaints, BBB shows 1 in the last 3 years and 0 closed in the last 12 months, a September 2024 matter over inverter noise and production on a November 2020 install, answered with a detailed contact timeline. The profile is not accredited and no rating letter appeared. No enforcement or lawsuit names the company, and the March 2026 New York Attorney General solar suit targets a different company. Not on the 2026 Solar Power World national or New York lists.