Orphaned Solar System Service in Cape Coral

If your solar installer closed, went bankrupt, or stopped answering, Cape Coral Solar Service takes the system over: a takeover diagnostic at $150 to $350 documents every component, checks production, restores monitoring under your own account, and files any open manufacturer warranty claims, and repairs from there are at the published rates ($300 to $600 per microinverter, $1,500 to $3,500 for a string inverter, $400 to $900 per panel). Your equipment warranties usually survived the bankruptcy. Your installer’s labor warranty did not. Here is what that means on a Lee County roof.

The companies that left Florida rooftops with nobody to call

• Pink Energy, formerly Power Home Solar. Filed Chapter 7 liquidation in the Western District of North Carolina on October 7, 2022, listing an estimated 25,000 to 50,000 creditors, after complaints and attorney general investigations in several states over under-producing systems.
• Vision Solar. Filed Chapter 7 on December 28, 2023. The Florida Attorney General had sued it that month, alleging that it sold systems to hundreds of Florida consumers, delivered delays and damage, and failed to complete permit requirements, leaving owners with unexpected fines and liens. Its phone number was disconnected.
• ADT Solar, formerly Sunpro. ADT bought Sunpro in 2021 for $160 million in cash and more in stock, closed 22 of 38 branches in November 2023, and announced on January 24, 2024 that it was exiting residential solar entirely.
• Titan Solar Power. One of the largest residential installers in the country, operating in more than 20 states, closed its doors on June 13, 2024 after a failed sale and filed Chapter 7 in Arizona about a week later. A third-party service company acquired its customer list in April 2025; the warranty obligations did not come with it.
• SunPower. Filed Chapter 11 in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware in August 2024. Complete Solaria bought Blue Raven Solar, the New Homes division, and part of the dealer network for $45 million, then rebranded as SunPower in April 2025. The new company has said that its purchase did not include responsibility for systems, batteries, or equipment installed on or before September 30, 2024. Lease and PPA customers were routed to the financing servicer; cash and loan customers were told to look to their equipment makers.

Behind each of those names were dozens of local dealers in Lee and Charlotte County that sold and installed under the brand, and they closed too. As recently as August 2026, Orlando’s WKMG was reporting on Central Florida homeowners left in the dark by installer bankruptcies. If your company is not on this list but its number is dead, the situation is the same.

What survived and what did not

Survived: the manufacturer warranties. They are tied to the equipment at the installed address, not to the company that bolted it on. Enphase publishes a 25-year limited warranty on its IQ and M-series microinverters. SolarEdge publishes 25 years on optimizers and 12 on inverters. SMA publishes 10 years on string inverters. Panel makers typically publish 10 to 25 years on product defects and 25 years on power output. Equipment makers are still honoring these on orphaned systems; the money to do so never depended on the installer.

Survived, with conditions: the right to file. Enphase’s current U.S. warranty, effective January 30, 2025, covers subsequent owners at the original location if they submit a change-of-ownership form and pay the transfer fee, requires claims to be submitted within 90 days of discovering the defect, and ships the replacement to the original installation address. Nobody at the manufacturer will notice your dead microinverter for you. Somebody has to open the case with the serial number and the fault data, and if the installer’s monitoring account is what would have flagged it, that somebody is now you or your service contractor.

Survived, minus the labor. Enphase’s warranty states it does not include any cost of labor to uninstall the covered product, reinstall the replacement, or troubleshoot the owner’s electrical system. SolarEdge’s standard terms likewise cover the part and shipping rather than the technician. SMA is the exception that covers labor. So the manufacturer sends the box, and you pay a contractor to get on the roof. On a $300 to $600 microinverter swap, that is most of the price.

Gone: everything the installer promised. The workmanship warranty (usually 10 years, sometimes 25 on paper), the roof penetration warranty, the production guarantee, the “free monitoring for life,” the annual cleaning, the promise to handle the D&R when you re-roof. Under Chapter 7 the company was liquidated and those promises are unsecured claims against nothing. Under Chapter 11 the buyer chose which obligations to assume, and SunPower’s buyer did not assume the old ones.

Not gone: your loan. If you financed through a solar lender, the payments continue regardless of whether the system works. Bankruptcy of the installer does not cancel the note. There are consumer-protection arguments about lender liability for an installer’s misrepresentations, and the Florida Attorney General’s Vision Solar case is one place to read about them, but that is a lawyer’s conversation. Ours is getting the system to produce.

What a takeover visit does

1. Document the system. Panel make, model, and count by roof face; inverter or microinverter model and serial numbers; optimizer or microinverter serials mapped to positions; racking brand and attachment type; monitoring gateway model; battery if any. This becomes the record for every future warranty claim and permit.
2. Pull the permit history. Lee County eConnect, the City of Cape Coral EnerGov portal, or the relevant city. An unclosed permit is common on orphaned systems, and it surfaces at sale or at an insurance renewal. Vision Solar’s Florida case specifically involved permit failures. If yours is open, we tell you what it takes to close it.
3. Check the interconnection. Whether your FPL or LCEC net-metering agreement is on file and matches the equipment on the roof. Both utilities require the local building official’s inspection certificate before a system is placed in service, and a system that was energized without it may be billed at the wrong rate.
4. Measure production. Actual output against expected output for the array size, orientation, and season. This is the number that tells you whether anything is wrong at all.
5. Restore monitoring. Transfer the Enphase, SolarEdge, or Tesla account to your name or to us as servicing contractor. Replace the gateway if it is dead ($300 to $800). White-label installer portals that went dark are usually sitting on top of one of those three.
6. List the warranties. Which components are covered, by whom, until when, and what the claim process requires.
7. Write it up. A findings report with repair quotes at published rates, prioritized. Often the honest finding is that the system is fine and just needed eyes on it.

From that visit forward you have a service contractor of record. When a microinverter fails next spring, the app shows it, the claim goes in with the serial number already on file, and the swap is a scheduled visit rather than a crisis.

Repairs on orphaned systems, by the numbers

Full table and what moves each number on the pricing page.

Where orphaned systems are in Lee County

Everywhere, but the pattern follows the sales. Pink Energy and Titan sold heavily door-to-door in the 2019 to 2023 boom, which in this market meant the newer stock in Lehigh Acres and the northeast and northwest Cape, and the 1990s and 2000s tract homes in Fort Myers and North Fort Myers. SunPower dealers sold premium systems into the canal-front southwest Cape, Estero, and Bonita Springs gated communities. Vision Solar’s Florida customers were spread across the state. Whatever the brand, the roof is now the owner’s problem, and Ian’s 6 to 9 feet of surge in Cape Coral on September 28, 2022 and Milton’s tornadoes on October 9, 2024 did not check who installed the array.

Related

If your roof is coming off, the detach and reset is also the takeover: every component gets documented while it is on the ground. If the system is producing and you just want to know how well, start with a cleaning and inspection with a production report. Dead inverter? Inverter replacement.

We take over systems across Cape Coral and out to Fort Myers, North Fort Myers, Lehigh Acres, Bonita Springs, Estero, and Punta Gorda. Send the installer’s name, the install year, a photo of the array, and whatever the app shows, and you get a plan.