Freedom Forever Bankruptcy: What Customers Should Do Now That It Is in Chapter 7

What actually happened, and when

Freedom Forever LLC filed Chapter 11 on April 15, 2026, listing more than $500 million in total debt against $100 million to $500 million in assets. Named unsecured creditors included lender Mosaic Funding IX, owed more than $100 million, and panel manufacturers JA Solar, Trina Solar, Jinko Solar, and Silfab Solar, each owed tens of millions. Silfab Solar filed a fresh notice of appearance in the case as recently as September 4, 2026, so manufacturer creditors were still active in the case in September 2026.

The company had been the second-largest residential solar installer in the country in 2025 with 6.1% market share, a figure Wood Mackenzie data put at 3.9% by the fourth quarter as the bankruptcy became imminent. Reporting at the time pointed to the end of the federal residential solar tax credit, higher borrowing costs, California's net-billing changes, and a Texas Attorney General investigation into sales practices as the pressures that broke the company.

A Chapter 11 case is a reorganization; the company tried to sell itself and keep operating. That plan fell apart. On July 31, 2026, Freedom Forever told the court it would seek to convert the case to Chapter 7 liquidation instead. The company formally filed that motion August 3, a hearing followed August 6, and the judge signed the conversion order August 7, 2026. Chapter 7 means there is no more Freedom Forever to reorganize. A trustee, Alfred T. Giuliano, is now selling off whatever assets exist and distributing the proceeds to creditors in a strict legal order, with secured lenders and administrative expenses paid first.

Your workmanship warranty is effectively gone

The 10-to-25-year workmanship or installation warranty Freedom Forever sold you was a promise from Freedom Forever, backed by nothing but Freedom Forever. That company no longer exists as an operating business, and in Chapter 7, an ordinary homeowner with a warranty claim is an unsecured creditor, standing behind secured lenders, administrative costs of the bankruptcy itself, and other creditors already named in the case for tens of millions of dollars apiece. Against total debt over $500 million, there is not going to be a payout that reaches a homeowner's warranty claim.

A Freedom Forever customer in Maine described losing that warranty bluntly to a local news outlet: "I lost all my warranties." That customer also described a real practical consequence: the panel monitoring Freedom Forever was supposed to provide had gone dark along with the company, and a loose wire went undetected until an independent electrician found it, a near fire hazard the homeowner paid out of pocket to catch. Treat your workmanship warranty as a write-off. Don't spend time or money chasing it. Put your energy into the two things that still work: your equipment warranties and your own monitoring access, both covered next.

Your equipment warranties survived, file directly with the manufacturer

The warranty on your panels, your inverter, and your battery is a separate contract between you and the manufacturer, not between you and Freedom Forever, and it does not disappear when the installer does. Start by identifying your manufacturer from your contract or the data plate on the equipment itself. Freedom Forever's own bankruptcy creditor list names Qcells, JA Solar, Trina Solar, Jinko Solar, and Silfab Solar as panel suppliers, and Enphase and Tesla are common inverter and battery brands in its installs.

For Qcells equipment, claims go through the company's partner portal at qpartnerus.com/qpp, with general support at qpartnerus.com/qpp/s/qcellssupport. For Enphase microinverters or IQ Battery systems, warranty documents are indexed by your system's activation date at enphase.com/warranty/us, with claims handled through enphase.com/support. For Tesla Powerwall, start at tesla.com/support/energy/warranty or the Tesla app itself.

A caution on numbers: warranty terms commonly cited for this equipment run around 25 years for panels and microinverters and around 10 years for battery systems, but the exact term depends on your specific model and activation date. Pull the PDF specific to your system before you plan around a number you saw on a marketing page.

Monitoring: log into your own account, not Freedom Forever's

If your system uses Enphase microinverters, your production and fault data lives in your own Enlighten account at enlighten.enphaseenergy.com, a login tied to you, not to Freedom Forever. If you have a Tesla Powerwall, the same is true of the Tesla app. Neither of those ever depended on Freedom Forever staying in business to keep functioning. Freedom Forever was simply a customer of that monitoring data too, watching the same dashboard you can watch yourself.

Log in today and confirm you can see current production and any active fault codes. If you never set up your own login, or don't know the credentials, contact the manufacturer's support line directly and ask to be added or reset as the account holder of record for your serial number. That's a routine request equipment manufacturers handle constantly, independent of who installed the system. Do this before you assume something is wrong with your equipment; a blinking status light with no one watching it, as the Maine homeowner found out, is a real risk, and the fix is getting your own eyes on your own dashboard, not waiting for an installer that no longer exists.

If your install was left unfinished

Some Freedom Forever customers had panels installed within days of the bankruptcy hitting, with the paperwork behind them never completed. Two things need checking before anything else: whether your permit was actually closed out with your city or county building department, and whether your interconnection agreement was actually processed with your utility, PG&E, SCE, SDG&E, or your local public utility, so your system has permission to operate. A company that goes dark mid-install is exactly the scenario where that paperwork stalls without anyone telling you.

Once you know where the paperwork stands, find a local, currently-operating, CSLB-licensed solar contractor to inspect the system and finish or correct anything outstanding. You are not the first customer in this position, and installers in other states hit by the same bankruptcy have started offering reduced-rate first service calls specifically for orphaned installs. It's worth asking a local installer directly whether they're doing the same before you pay full price for a first visit.

File a CSLB complaint, for the record, not for a refund

The California Contractors State License Board maintains a solar-specific complaint form, separate from its general contractor complaint intake, at cslb.ca.gov/Consumers/Filing_a_Complaint. File it. It puts your experience on the public record against Freedom Forever's license and bond, which matters for the state's oversight of the industry even now.

Be clear-eyed about what it does not do. CSLB's own stated position is that the purpose of its investigation process is not to obtain restitution for the homeowner, and an investigation does not guarantee anyone gets money back. The board's own suggested paths to actual recovery are small claims court or hiring an attorney, not the complaint process itself. With Freedom Forever's debts running past $500 million and thousands of customers in the same position, any contractor bond that exists behind the license would be exhausted quickly if drawn on at all, and is not a meaningful individual remedy at this scale. If Freedom Forever owes you money for work paid for and never delivered, filing a proof of claim with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (No. 26-10522) by October 16, 2026, the deadline in the court's Chapter 7 notice (Doc. 568). A claim filed before the August 7 conversion already counts in the Chapter 7 case (Federal Rule of Bankruptcy Procedure 1019(c)), is worth doing for the record. Just go in expecting little to nothing back, given where an unsecured claim sits behind $500 million in senior debt.

Who to call, in order

First, log into your Enlighten or Tesla app account and confirm your system is producing and reporting normally. Second, identify your panel, inverter, and battery manufacturers from your contract or equipment data plates, and open a warranty case directly with each one if you have an actual issue. Don't wait for a problem to surface a company that isn't watching for you anymore. Third, if your install was left unfinished, call your city or county building department and your utility's interconnection desk before you call anyone else, so you know exactly what's outstanding. Fourth, line up a local, currently licensed CSLB contractor for any service work the manufacturer warranty doesn't cover directly, which typically means labor rather than parts. Fifth, file your CSLB solar complaint for the record. Sixth, if you're out real money, an unfinished install you paid for, a system that was never interconnected, damage from stalled maintenance, talk to a consumer attorney or your local small claims court before you spend more time on the bankruptcy case itself. That is where CSLB itself points people, and it is the honest answer here too.