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SunPower, one of the most recognized names in residential solar, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on August 5, 2024 — laying off 350+ California employees in the weeks prior. The company had been the leading installer in San Diego for years. Complete Solaria purchased SunPower's dealer network and new-homes division for $45 million in September 2024 but did not assume workmanship warranties for systems installed before the acquisition. The mySunPower monitoring app was shut down September 20, 2024.
In April 2025, Complete Solaria rebranded itself as "SunPower" and reclaimed the SPWR Nasdaq ticker, creating confusion among ~600,000 legacy customers who have no warranty coverage with the new entity.
Titan Solar Power abruptly ceased operations on June 13, 2024 after six months of failed sale negotiations collapsed overnight. The company filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy (full liquidation — no reorganization) on June 20, 2024. Titan had installed systems in over 150,000 homes across 22 states, with a heavy California presence. Regulators cited an aggressive dealer-driven sales model and poor installation quality as contributing factors.
Unlike Chapter 11, a Chapter 7 filing means there is no successor company. The 25-year workmanship warranty is permanently void with no entity to honor it. In 2025, EnergyAid acquired Titan's system data to help former customers, but carries no warranty obligation.
Sunnova, the second-largest third-party owned residential solar installer in the U.S., filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 9, 2025 with $10.67 billion in total debt and only $13.5 million cash on hand. The company had ~500,000 customers nationwide. 718 employees — more than half the workforce — were laid off in the days before the filing.
Contributing factors included California's NEM 3.0 rollback, sustained high interest rates, and the Trump administration's termination of Sunnova's $3 billion DOE loan guarantee in May 2025. Solar lease and PPA contracts are being transferred to SunStrong Management (Launch Servicing).
Solar Mosaic (Mosaic Sustainable Finance) was the largest residential solar lending platform in the U.S., having funded over $15 billion in loans to 500,000+ households for solar, battery, and home energy projects. Mosaic was a lender, not an installer — it financed installations by connecting homeowners with solar contractors nationwide, including many San Diego-area companies.
In May 2025, Mosaic announced it was pausing new solar loan operations, triggering a cash-flow crisis for thousands of contractors who weren't receiving milestone payments. Mosaic filed Chapter 11 on June 6, 2025 — the same week as Sunnova. In September 2025, Solar Servicing LLC (Forbright Bank) acquired all loan servicing. New loan origination was permanently shut down.
Sullivan Solar Power, a prominent San Diego installer that had completed over 9,000 residential and commercial systems (including Petco Park), abruptly locked its Miramar Road offices in October/November 2021 with no warning to customers or subcontractors. CEO Daniel Sullivan was arrested on felony stalking charges in 2021 and later pleaded guilty. Federal tax liens of ~$1.47 million were filed just months before the closure.
Subcontractors who completed work for Sullivan were never paid, exposing homeowners to mechanic's liens on their properties — in some cases on top of systems they had already paid Sullivan in full. Sullivan Power Inc. (a separate company) eventually stepped in to service former customers.
PetersenDean Roofing & Solar, one of California's largest independently owned solar companies, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on June 11, 2020, citing an 87% drop in solar leads between March and May 2020 due to COVID-19. The company had been a dominant installer under California's new-home solar mandate, projecting 11,000–12,000 installations in 2019 alone.
SolarJuice American purchased some consumer contracts through bankruptcy proceedings in early 2021, but did not assume liabilities, workmanship warranties, or all existing contracts. New California homebuyers who had Petersen Dean systems built into their homes — required by state mandate — were left without workmanship warranty coverage.
Sungevity, an Oakland-based solar company that had achieved ~3% national market share at its peak, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 14, 2017 — just four days after laying off ~400 employees. A $200 million funding round reportedly collapsed after Trump's election made investors skittish. Northern Pacific Group purchased assets; the company was renamed Solar Spectrum.
Sungevity's business model was primarily 20-year solar leases, leaving customers in legal limbo about their obligations when monitoring and maintenance services stopped. Sunrun eventually took over servicing the lease portfolio, restoring some continuity — but not all customers were reached. Some reported inverters going offline for months with no repair response.
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