More than a hundred solar companies have closed since 2023. If yours was one of them, you are still making the loan payment on equipment nobody will service. That problem is fixable, and it is almost never as expensive as the company trying to sell you a replacement system would like you to believe.
The pattern almost every caller describes: normal output, then nothing — and no one left to call.
Most calls we take fall into five patterns. You do not need to diagnose it yourself — you only need to describe what you are seeing accurately enough for a technician to quote the visit.
This is the single most useful thing to understand before you spend money. A bankruptcy does not erase your panels, your utility interconnection, or the manufacturers standing behind the hardware. It removes the company that was supposed to service it.
| What you had | Status after the closure | What it means for you |
|---|---|---|
| Panel warranty | Usually intact | Comes from the panel manufacturer, not the installer. Typically 25 years on performance. |
| Inverter warranty | Usually intact | Enphase, SolarEdge, and similar manufacturers honor their own terms regardless of who installed the unit. |
| Labor to do the work | Not covered | The manufacturer ships a replacement part. Someone still has to diagnose it, file the claim, and install it. That is the bill you will actually receive. |
| Workmanship warranty | Gone | Racking, wiring, roof penetrations, and flashing were the installer's responsibility. That coverage generally dies with the company. |
| Production guarantee | Gone | Promises about how much power the system would make rarely survive a bankruptcy filing. |
| Monitoring account | Recoverable | Often re-established directly with the equipment manufacturer once you prove ownership. |
| Your loan or lease | Still owed | Sold or transferred to a new servicer. The obligation does not go away because the seller did. |
We work city by city rather than claiming the whole state, because the things that actually matter here are local: which utility handles your interconnection, which building department signs off a permit, and which contractors in your area will touch a system they did not install.
Fresno, Clovis, Sanger, Selma, Reedley, Kingsburg, Fowler, Kerman, Madera. PG&E territory.
Bakersfield, Delano, Shafter, Wasco, Taft, Arvin, Tehachapi, Ridgecrest, California City. PG&E territory.
We are adding cities as we find service contractors who will take on other companies' systems. Call and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.
Homeowners are often surprised that the hardest part of reviving an orphaned system is paperwork rather than wiring. If your installer vanished before the system was commissioned, the fix runs through your utility's interconnection process, and that process differs meaningfully between PG&E, Southern California Edison, SDG&E, and the municipal utilities like SMUD and LADWP.
It matters for repairs too. Replacing a string inverter with a different model can require notifying the utility, because the interconnection agreement describes specific equipment. A contractor who works in your utility's territory every week already knows which form that is. One who does not will cost you weeks.
This is why we build out by territory rather than scattering across the state. Fresno and Bakersfield are both PG&E, both Central Valley, and a contractor who handles one frequently handles the other.
The residential market contracted hard: rising interest rates, California's shift to NEM 3.0, and the expiry of the federal credit. Several of the largest names in the business went with it, and California absorbed a disproportionate share of their installations.
The second-largest residential installer in the country before filing, reporting liabilities in the hundreds of millions.
One of the oldest names in American solar. Equipment warranties were handled separately from the installation business.
Closed abruptly, leaving unfinished installations and uncommissioned systems across the Southwest.
A major lease and power purchase agreement provider. Servicing rights have moved between entities.
Wound down its solar division, ending the service relationship for its customers.
Formerly Power Home Solar. A liquidation rather than a reorganization, so the company simply ceased to exist.
Sometimes it is not, and you deserve to hear that before you spend money. If your array is small, badly sited, shaded, or was sold at a price far above its value, a repair can be good money after bad — particularly if you are on a lease or power purchase agreement where you do not own the equipment at all.
But most California systems are worth fixing. An array that is already paid for or financed produces real savings the moment it comes back online. A dead system costs you the full utility bill plus the loan payment. That is the worst possible position and it is usually the cheapest one to get out of.
Before you agree to a full system replacement. If a company inspects your system and immediately proposes replacing all of it, get a second opinion. Replacement is a much larger sale than a repair, and an inverter swap on a healthy array is often the entire fix.
Describe the symptom — a dark inverter screen, a monitoring app that stopped reporting, a utility bill that jumped back to pre-solar levels. We route it to a licensed solar service contractor in your area who works on other companies' installations, and they contact you directly with a diagnostic price.