Smart Wave Solar

Start with what caps this grade. The Colorado DORA record for Smart Wave Solar LLC, electrical contractor license EC.0102065, shows one board action on file: case 2025-9188, a Letter of Admonition effective November 17, 2025. A letter of admonition is the lightest tier of Colorado board discipline, and the license itself remains active. But it is a government enforcement action on the license this company uses to work in Colorado, and under our rubric that caps the grade at D no matter how strong the rest of the record looks. One honest limit: the board document behind the case sits in the DORA public documents system and was not read for this profile, so we can tell you the action exists and when it took effect, but not what conduct the board admonished. Treat that as an open question, not a closed one.

The rest of the record is genuinely mixed. Smart Wave Solar is a Utah company, headquartered in Bluffdale, with a Denver branch at 4201 Madison Street; its Thornton listing is that Colorado operation. Colorado has no statewide solar contractor license, so the lane that matters is the DORA electrical contractor registration, and Smart Wave holds its own: EC.0102065, active, first issued May 20, 2021, expiring September 30, 2029, with 26 Colorado electrical apprentices registered under it as employer. The Responsible Individual, master electrician Aerik Jacob Larsen, is himself a Utah resident whose master license was issued by examination in June 2025, about a year before this data pull. It is also the only company in this track with verified volume: Solar Power World's 2026 list ranks it 149 nationally and 13 in Colorado, with 7,517.80 kW installed in Colorado in 2025.

The complaint file deserves a real read. BBB rates the company A+ and showed 19 complaints in the last 3 years on one profile variant and 18 on the other, fetched the same day. The published themes are the ones that hurt in this business: a system that failed from a ground fault two weeks after going live, a customer who says a system sold at ten dollars a month never worked or connected for over three years while negative credit reporting continued, hardware needing reboots up to three times a day, and the company's own acknowledgment that a former manager improperly tied a discount to changing a negative review. If you get a quote here, ask directly what case 2025-9188 involved, get the 25-year workmanship warranty and production guarantee in the contract rather than off the homepage, and name who handles a post-install outage in writing.