Orphaned solar
The company that put panels on your roof stopped answering the phone, or filed for bankruptcy. Here is what you lost, what you still have, and who services the system now.
If you were a Freedom Forever customer
Freedom Forever filed Chapter 11 on 15 April 2026 and the case converted to Chapter 7 liquidation on 7 August 2026. If you paid a deposit for work that never happened, or you are owed anything under a workmanship warranty, 16 October 2026 is the claims bar date. File a proof of claim with the bankruptcy court before then or the claim is gone. Filing costs nothing.
The court has authorised several financing partners, including GoodLeap, Sunrun, EverBright and EnFin, to finish physically installing stranded systems and get them to permission-to-operate. If your install was left half-done, start with whoever holds your loan or lease.
You are not an isolated case
Residential solar has had a brutal two years. If your installer is on this list, nothing about your situation is unusual and nothing about it is your fault.
Dates are from public bankruptcy filings and trade press, current as of September 2026. Your installer does not have to be on this list for any of the rest of this page to apply.
The part nobody explains
Your solar system was never covered by one warranty. It was covered by three or four, held by different companies, and most of them are still in business.
This is the one that covered the installation itself: roof penetrations and leaks, wiring and conduit, mounting, and the labour to fix any of it. It was a promise from the installer, so when the installer dissolves, the promise dissolves with it. This is the real loss, and it is why a leaking roof penetration is now your problem.
Panels, inverters and optimisers are warranted by their manufacturers, not your installer. Enphase, SolarEdge, Qcells, Tesla and the rest are all still trading and still honouring claims. The catch: most cover parts only. They will ship you a replacement inverter and expect you to find someone to install it.
Your monitoring portal belongs to the hardware maker too. If you lost access because the login was tied to the installer’s account, it can usually be transferred back to you with a support ticket. Do this early. Without monitoring you are diagnosing blind.
The finance company is a separate business and is still there. Your installer going under does not cancel the payment, however unfair that feels. If the system was never finished or never turned on, that is worth raising with the lender directly, in writing.
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Where we come in
Marcus is a licensed electrician who services solar, not a solar company that subcontracts the electrical. That is the whole difference when a system needs diagnosing rather than selling.
It does not matter who installed it or what is on the roof. Service calls start at $250 and you get a written price before any work starts.
If the manufacturer will ship a replacement inverter or optimiser under warranty, we will file for it and install it. You pay labour, not parts.
Once we have been through the system, we are the people you call. No handoff to a call centre, no six-week queue. You text the owner.
Get a quote
Brand, age, and what the monitoring says is plenty. If you have lost the monitoring too, say that. We’ll call you back, usually within the hour on business days.
Service starts at $250 · any brand
