Freedom Forever is in Chapter 7. What that means for your system.

If Freedom Forever installed your system, one date matters more than the rest: October 16 2026. That is the deadline the court set for filing a proof of claim in the company's Chapter 7 case. Your panels keep producing, your loan keeps running, and your equipment warranties are usually claimed from the manufacturer. Here is the record, and what to do with it.

Do these five things this week

1. Download everything from the customer portal while it is still up. Solar Power World's June 2026 article on this bankruptcy names that as a good first step for anyone holding a contract with the company. Save the contract, the warranty pages, the design, the production estimate and the permit paperwork.
2. Photograph the equipment labels. Panel brand and model on the frame label, inverter brand, model and serial number on the case.
3. Read the warranty section of your contract, and separate the promises the installer made from the warranties passed through from a manufacturer.
4. Decide whether to file a proof of claim before October 16 2026. The case number and the deadline are below.
5. Check whether the system is actually producing. There is a step by step check in how to find out if your system still works.

What the docket says

Every line here comes from the case docket, checked on 2026-09-19.

• Freedom Forever LLC filed a Chapter 11 petition on April 15 2026 in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, Case No. 26-10522, assigned to Judge Brendan L. Shannon. pv magazine USA reported the filing the same day.
• On August 3 2026 a motion to convert the Chapter 11 case to Chapter 7 was filed (docket 501), with a hearing set for August 6 2026.
• On August 7 2026 the court signed an Order Approving Motion to Convert Case to Chapter 7 (docket 533).
• The United States Trustee appointed Alfred T. Giuliano as trustee on August 7 2026 (docket 534). He filed a notice of appearance on August 21 2026.
• On August 17 2026 the court filed the Notice of Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Case, Meeting of Creditors and Notice of Appointment of Interim Trustee (docket 568). It sets the section 341(a) meeting of creditors for September 22 2026 at 11:00 a.m. by Zoom, proofs of claim due by October 16 2026, and government proofs of claim due by February 3 2027.
• pv magazine USA, reporting on September 9 2026, wrote that the company laid off approximately 1,600 workers on or around the date of the Chapter 11 petition.

Chapter 11 is a reorganisation. Chapter 7 is a liquidation, run by a trustee. This case started as the first and became the second on August 7 2026. That is the whole of the change, stated as the record states it.

The website and the docket are both current

Checked on 2026-09-19: freedomforever.com is live and still describes a 25 year production guarantee. The page presents the company as trading normally, with quote forms.

The court record above is also current. Both things are true on the same day, and only one of them decides who pays for a repair on your roof. A production guarantee is a promise made by the company that is now in Chapter 7. If you want it treated as money you are owed, the route is a proof of claim in case 26-10522, filed by October 16 2026.

We say that without any view about the company or the people who ran it. It is simply where a promise from a liquidating company goes.

What survives, and what does not

Your loan or lease survives, and you keep paying it. The money came from a finance company, and that is a separate contract from the installation. Solar Power World put it plainly in June 2026: the bankruptcy does not do away with your obligation to continue making payments. If you stop, it affects your credit.

The workmanship warranty becomes a claim in the case. In Nevada, NRS 598.9821 requires a written warranty on the installation and the roof penetration expiring not earlier than 10 years after installation. That promise was the installer's. In a Chapter 7 liquidation it becomes something you file for in the case, by the deadline, and what is paid on claims is decided there.

Your equipment warranties are usually still alive, and your contract says whether yours are. NRS 598.9821 requires component warranties of not less than 10 years for collectors and storage and not less than 7 years for inverters, and it allows those warranties to come "either directly from the solar installation company or passed through from the manufacturer of the component parts." If your contract passed the manufacturer's warranty through, the manufacturer is still there and the claim goes to the manufacturer, with the model and serial numbers you photographed. If the installer wrote its own component warranty instead, that one sits in the bankruptcy case with the workmanship warranty.

Filing a proof of claim

A proof of claim is the form a creditor files to say what they are owed. The federal courts' form page shows that the current version is Official Form B 410. It is filed in the case, and the two things you need are on this page already: the case number, 26-10522, and the deadline, October 16 2026.

Anyone who was owed something can file: a customer with an unfinished installation, a deposit that was never used, or a warranty obligation. If you did not receive a notice in the mail, that reflects the mailing list drawn from company records, not your standing.

What supports a claim is the same paperwork you gathered in step 1. The signed contract. Proof of what you paid and when. Photographs of anything unfinished or damaged. Written quotes for the repair work, if you have already had the system looked at. Keep copies of everything you send.

Filing costs you the time it takes. Whether claims like yours are paid anything depends on what the estate holds, and that is decided in the case. If the amount is large, this is a reasonable point at which to speak to a lawyer.

If your installation was never finished

A share of the calls about any closed installer are not about a failed part at all. They are from people who discover that the job was never completed: the permit was never finalled, the utility inspection never happened, or the system was never switched on.

Panels on a roof are not an approved system. Until the jurisdiction closes the permit and the utility sets the meter, nothing you produce is credited to you, and an unfinalled permit can follow the house to a sale.

That is a fixable problem and it does not depend on the old company existing. It needs a licensed electrical contractor who can close the permit and file the interconnection paperwork in your name. See your system was never actually connected.

If someone offers to take over the warranty

You may get a knock, a call or a letter from a company saying it has taken over Freedom Forever's warranty obligations.

Ask which company, ask for the document, and check it against the docket. A sale of obligations out of a bankruptcy case is approved by the court, which means it has a docket entry and a date you can read. Do not sign anything at the door and do not pay a deposit to keep a warranty alive. More in someone knocked and said they are taking over your warranty.

Hiring someone to look at the system

No contractor can honour Freedom Forever's workmanship warranty. What a licensed contractor can do is inspect the system, tell you in writing what is wrong, claim on the manufacturer warranties that are still live, replace failed equipment, and warrant its own new work.

Before anyone gets on your roof, verify the licence. The Nevada State Contractors Board's residential solar page tells homeowners to confirm that a licence shows an Active status on the board's search page. Apply that to us too.

The wider picture, including the Residential Recovery Fund and what a net metering rate change costs you on a repair, is in your solar company went out of business. If it is an inverter, see what an inverter replacement should cost.

What we will update, and when

This page carries a live deadline. It is rechecked monthly, and it will be updated the day after October 16 2026 to record that the claims deadline has passed. The date checked is printed at the top of this page. If it is stale, tell us and we will fix it.

We recheck this page monthly. Last checked 2026-09-19. If a number here has moved, tell us and we will fix it the same week.