Wednesday’s Top Stories Wednesday’s Five Facts [1] Lawyer looks to help New Mexicans left out of solar company settlement – In 2018, then-Attorney General Hector Balderas filed a lawsuit against Vivint Solar. The Attorney General’s office accused the company of racketeering and of tricking homeowners, locking them into long contracts with high prices. The state […] | Local News from KRQE News 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico
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Vivint Solar Inc. installed 51 solar panels on Lynn Griffin’s Northeast Heights home, left. That’s about twice as many as needed to meet the Griffin family’s electricity consumption, and more than double the number of panels Vivint placed on a neighbor’s roof on the right. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Vivint Solar Inc., a national installation company recently acquired by publicly traded firm SunRun, has agreed to consumer-friendly modifications to its marketing practices in a legal agreement with the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office.
But lawyers representing Vivint customers who may have been victims of deceptive marketing said individual homeowners received no relief in the settlement, which the 2nd Judicial District Court in Bernalillo County approved in late December to resolve a lawsuit that Attorney General Hector Balderas filed in 2018.