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What we maintain
Dataset 1
The register of residential solar company bankruptcies and closures
A continuously updated list of US residential solar installers, lease providers and lenders that have filed for bankruptcy, been liquidated, or ceased operations since 2022, with the chapter, court, date and current status of each, and a plain-language note on what the outcome means for a homeowner holding that company's contract.
Updated within hours of a new filing or a material development such as a conversion to Chapter 7, a plan confirmation or a transfer of customer servicing. Fourteen companies as of September 6, 2026, including Freedom Forever (Chapter 11, April 2026; converted to Chapter 7, August 2026), Sunnova, SunPower, PosiGen, Solgen Power, Lumio and the lender Solar Mosaic.
Dataset 2
Solar cancellation windows in all 50 states, verified against the statutes
The right to cancel a solar contract signed at home in each state: the window, the governing statute with section number, how notice must be given, and the exceptions. Every citation was checked against the statute text, not against a summary, and every one of the fifty needed at least a correction when we did that work. The common error in published guides is citing a general consumer-protection act instead of the door-to-door sales statute, which lands on a section about something unrelated.
Ten states give more than the federal three business days in at least some circumstances. The ones a reporter most often needs:
| State | Window | Who it reaches | Statute |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 business days | All residential solar agreements (solar-specific statute, effective Sept 2025) | Tex. Occ. Code 1806.156 |
| Hawaii | 30 calendar days | If the seller lacked a contractor license | HRS 481C-2.5 |
| Illinois | 15 business days | Buyers 65 and older, home repair or remodeling from an uninvited solicitor | 815 ILCS 513/22 |
| North Dakota | 15 business days | Buyers 65 and older | NDCC 51-18-02 |
| Maryland | 5 business days, 7 if 65 or older | Door-to-door sales | Md. Code Com. Law Tit. 14, Sub. 3 |
| Alaska | 5 business days | Door-to-door sales of $10 or more | AS 45.02.350 |
| California | 5 business days | Buyers 65 and older | Cal. Civ. Code 1689.6 |
Two traps in the other direction: New Jersey's three-day window closes at 5 p.m., not midnight (N.J.S.A. 17:16C-61.5), and Arkansas counts calendar days excluding only Sundays and holidays, so Saturdays count (Ark. Code 4-89-107).
What is new, as of September 6, 2026
- Freedom Forever converted to Chapter 7. The second-largest residential installer in the country by 2025 share filed Chapter 11 in Delaware on April 15, 2026; after a proposed sale to a group led by its own chief executive collapsed, the case converted to Chapter 7 liquidation effective August 7, 2026. Homeowner guide to the conversion.
- The lender cascade. Freedom Forever's largest creditor, at roughly $120 million, was Solar Mosaic, which had itself gone through Chapter 11 in June 2025 and transferred its servicing book to Forbright Bank. Installers and lenders are failing into one another, and homeowners frequently do not know which of the two they actually owe.
- Four failures added to the register that most published lists still miss: Freedom Forever's conversion, PosiGen (Chapter 11, November 2025), Solgen Power dba Purelight Power (Chapter 7, December 2025, 25,000 to 50,000 creditors listed) and Solar Mosaic.
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How the data is built, and where it is weak
Sources we accept
- Court dockets and claims-agent case sites (Kroll, Stretto, Epiq)
- SEC filings and company statements
- Established trade and local press: pv magazine, Solar Power World, Canary Media, Utility Dive, Law360, local investigative desks
- State statute text, read at the section, for every cancellation window
What we do not do
- We do not infer a bankruptcy from layoffs, reviews or social posts
- We do not publish a case number we could not confirm
- We do not give legal advice, and we say so on every page
- We hedge what is reported rather than confirmed, and the hedge is deliberate
Where we have been wrong, we say so. Our methodology page describes the verification process, and our corrections are visible in the page update notes. A reporter who finds an error in either dataset should tell us; it will be fixed the same day and the correction noted.
Using the data
- Cite as SolarPanelExit.com with a link to the specific page. No permission needed.
- Need a specific cut, for example every failure affecting a particular state, or every lease provider on the register? Email and we will pull it, usually the same day.
- We will confirm or correct a fact on deadline. We will not supply a named individual for a quote.
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About the site
SolarPanelExit.com is an editorial site for homeowners who want to understand, renegotiate or exit a residential solar contract. It publishes company reviews, state-by-state legal guides, and the resources above. It earns money when homeowners who consent are connected with authorized partners, who pay for inquiries; those payments do not change our ratings. About · Methodology · Ownership disclosure · Advertiser disclosure
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