A solar bankruptcy list has been compiled by Data Register, “Data from Solar Company Bankruptcy Register: US Home Solar Bankruptcies and Closures Since 2022.” Their summary of the current state of the industry speaks for itself (reproduced verbatim below). I then offer a final comment, followed by Appendice A on (long-term) contract transfers from busted companies and Appendix B on previous posts on the rooftop solar bust.
DATA REGISTER
Since 2022, more than 90 solar companies that sold, financed, serviced, or supplied U.S. homes have gone bankrupt, entered a court-supervised wind-down, or liquidated. The yearly count is 29 in 2022; 29 in 2024; 24 in 2025, and 11 in 2026 (to date). Seventy-seven (85 percent) went through a bankruptcy court or similar proceeding, 51 (56 percent) are Chapter 7 liquidations once conversions are counted, 79 (87 percent) are installers.…
Continue ReadingThis post excerpts energy and climate material from the Media Balance Newsletter, a free fortnightly published by physicist John Droz Jr., founder of the Alliance for Wise Energy Decisions. Droz is also the author of the popular Substack Critically Thinking About Select Societal Issues.
Unreliables (General):
*** The core issues with “renewables”
Wind Energy:
Upstate NY Wind Project Caught in a Trap as New York’s Climate Bureaucrats Let It Build Wind Turbines It May Not Be Able to Operate!
US Gov’t Seeks New Review of US Wind’s Maryland Project
Nuclear Energy:
*** Nuclear Power at ‘Warp Speed’: Magical Thinking Meets Statism
Fossil Fuel Energy:
Newsom’s green agenda DOES NOT meet California’s fuel demands
Qatar Poised to Become Top Overseas Buyer Of American Gas As Iran War Chokes Its Own Exports
Miscellaneous Energy News:
Trump announces end of Biden-era methane rule, citing $45B in savings
Fermi Inc.…
“Many big shots in the business, who later denied it, literally prayed for us amateurs in government to ‘save us else we perish.’ A few years later, when most of them found salvation, few sinners remembered their prayers. Such is human nature.”
Earlier this year, the Institute for Energy Research (IER) launched Fueling America: 250 Years of Energy Innovation. A major part of this project is brief biographies on major and lesser-known industry pioneers. One biography was done on J. Howard Marshall II, whose book Done in Oil was published in 1996 by Texas A&M Press. I edited and wrote the introduction for this book, which was a rare opportunity in the field of industry history.
Unfortunately, Texas A&M Press had a woke, humorless editor (she is now a Deacon at St.…
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