My solar installer went out of business: who services the system now

If the company that installed your solar system closed, the manufacturer warranties on the hardware almost certainly survived, the installer’s workmanship and roof-leak warranties did not, and any Florida-licensed solar or electrical contractor can take the system over. A takeover visit is $150 to $350, which buys a full condition check, monitoring back in your own name, and a written quote from published ranges. Repairs run from $300 to $600 for a microinverter to $1,500 to $3,500 for a string inverter.

Check this first

1. Find out what you actually own. Pull the contract. Cash or loan means you own the hardware. A lease or a power purchase agreement means a finance company owns it and its servicer handles repairs, and the statement you pay every month names that servicer.
2. Open the monitoring app and see whose account it is. If it still loads, note the brand: Enphase, SolarEdge, Tesla, SMA, Fronius, Generac. If the login is dead, that is the account problem covered on the app offline page.
3. Photograph the inverter label and the panel label. The manufacturer names and serial numbers on those labels are what the warranty follows. They matter more now than the installer’s name ever did.

That is the safe list. Do not open DC equipment to read a serial; a photo of the outside label is enough to start.

The companies, with dates

Lee County was sold hard between 2019 and 2023, and many of the sellers are gone.

Plus dozens of local dealers that simply stopped answering. The full guide has the detail on each.

What survives and what does not

That last row is the one that surprises people. The manufacturer ships a part; it does not send a crew. The bankrupt installer used to be the crew.

Why this hits Lee County harder

Two things happened at once here. The 2019 to 2023 sales boom put a lot of systems on Cape Coral, Fort Myers, and Lehigh Acres roofs from companies that no longer exist, and then Hurricane Ian on September 28, 2022 impacted 52,514 Lee County structures by the National Hurricane Center’s count. Owners who needed warranty service the most were the ones whose installer had just filed. Add Florida Statute 627.7011(5), which lets an insurer require replacement of a roof 15 years or older that cannot pass an inspection showing five years of remaining life, and the same orphaned owners are now being told their roof has to come off with the array on it. That is the detach and reset job at $200 to $400 per panel, and there is nobody left to call about it.

What a takeover visit includes

The orphaned system service visit documents the system end to end: panel and inverter make, model, and serials, string layout, racking and attachment type, rapid shutdown status, and a production reading against expected output. Monitoring is moved into your name where the manufacturer allows it, alerts are turned on, and you get a written condition report with any repairs quoted from the pricing page. Warranty claims that are worth filing get filed with the serial evidence attached.

What to expect on the call

Tell us who installed it and roughly when, and send three photos: the array from the ground, the inverter label, and the monitoring screen. You will get a plain answer about what is covered, what is not, and what the realistic bill looks like. If the honest answer is that your inverter is 12 years old and out of warranty and the number is a replacement number, you will hear that instead of a new-system pitch. Filing the claim yourself is also an option, and the step-by-step guide shows exactly how.