Bankrupt solar installers: the full Scout Data list

This is the list Scout Data actually runs on. Every name below is carried in the lookup table that flags permits inside Scout and Atlas, so when a rep opens a property and sees “installer out of business,” it is because the contractor on that permit matched one of these 104 companies. We are publishing it in full, with the bankruptcy chapter, filing date, and court case behind each one.

Installers tracked

104

Permits they left behind

387,677

Chapter 7 liquidations

28

Chapter 11 filings

9

Those 387,677 permits are homes — each one a household that bought a solar system from a company that no longer exists. Some have panels on the roof and no one to call. Some signed a contract that never became an install. Both are pipeline, and the plays that work on each are different.

The list

Sorted by the number of residential solar permits we can attribute to each company. “Closed” means the company stopped operating but no Chapter 7 or 11 case surfaced in public records — small installers routinely exit by abandonment, state receivership, or an owner’s personal filing, none of which show up in corporate bankruptcy trackers.

Where the same company appears twice

Solar installers rebrand, get acquired, and operate under regional entities, so several companies on this list pull permits under more than one name. We fold those into a single row and list the variants beneath the company, because counting them separately would double-count the same customer book. The consequential ones:

• Titan Solar Power is PM&M Electric Inc. doing business as Titan Solar Power, and pulls permits as both, plus a Virginia entity.
• Purelight Power and Pure Light Power are one company — a Solgen Power rebrand that filed alongside Solgen in the same court on the same day.
• Blue Raven Solar was owned by SunPower and went down with its Chapter 11, then was sold to Complete Solaria. We keep them separate because their permits are separate customer books.
• Sunpro Solar was acquired by ADT Solar, which then exited residential solar entirely. Neither filed; both left orphaned customers.

What this list is for

A homeowner whose installer has failed is the rarest thing in this industry: a warm prospect with no incumbent. They already believed in solar enough to sign. Nobody is defending the account, because the company that owned the relationship is gone. And they have a live problem — no warranty, no monitoring, no service number — that a competent local company can solve on the first call.

The offers that convert are the obvious ones: a free system health check that becomes a service plan, a battery retrofit anchored on the existing array, a re-roof with detach-and-reset, and for the homeowners whose permit never became an install, simply finishing the job someone else took money for.

Methodology

• Membership. The 104 companies here are the production lookup that flags permits across Scout Data. It is built from industry press, federal court trackers, state AG actions, and BBB records, and it grows as filings land.
• Chapters and cases. Filing dates and case numbers come from federal court dockets and public bankruptcy aggregators. “Case number not surfaced” means credible reporting confirms the chapter but we could not pull the docket from a free source.
• Permit attribution. Counts are tracked residential solar permits — commercial and utility-scale excluded, deduplicated to one record per permit — where the installer of record starts with the company name. Requiring a name-start match rather than a loose substring keeps unrelated contractors out: it is the difference between Solar Direct and American Solar Direct, or between iSun and AmeriSun.
• Why some rows show no count. A dash means we carry the installer but cannot attribute permits to it — either no permit in our coverage names them, or the name is too short and generic to attribute without sweeping in other companies. Those companies stay on the list; the flag still fires in-product.
• Coverage. Not every U.S. jurisdiction publishes permits, and we do not ingest every one that does. Every count here is a floor on the real customer book, never a ceiling.

Derived August 18, 2026. If a company is missing, a chapter is wrong, or you are counsel for an estate on this page, tell us — we would rather correct a row than defend it.

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