After the Installer

Texas solar servicers who take on orphaned systems

Every claim below is sourced. Last checked against primary records: 2026-08-17

As of: August 17, 2026. These are independent Texas companies that say, in their own published words, that they service systems they did not install. Every one below has a Texas electrical contractor licence number printed here so you can check it yourself.

We are not affiliated with any of them, we are not paid to list them, and this is not a recommendation of one over another. We publish what each company says about itself, plus its licence number, and you decide. If that ever changes, this line changes with it.

Before you call anyone: check the licence yourself

Texas regulates this work through electrical licensing, not a dedicated solar licence. The number to ask for is a TECL, a Texas Electrical Contractor Licence, issued by the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation. A company doing paid repair on your system should hold one or work under one.

Look up any licence, free, at TDLR: tdlr.texas.gov/LicenseSearch. Search by licence number or business name.

⚠️ The numbers below were recorded on 2026-08-07 from each company's own published pages. We have not re-queried TDLR for each one since. Licences expire and statuses change, so check the current status before you hire.

One Texas-specific thing worth knowing: your city may also require a permit and an inspection for equipment replacement, and the rules differ between Houston, Dallas, Austin and San Antonio. Ask whoever you hire who pulls the permit. A shop that has done this before will answer immediately.

Do you actually own the system?

If your paperwork says lease or power purchase agreement (PPA), you do not own the hardware and the finance company carries the service obligation. In the Freedom Forever bankruptcy the court record names Sunrun, EverBright, GoodLeap, EnFin and Credit Human in that role. Call them first. Paying a repair shop for work your finance company owes you is money you may not get back.

If you bought the system with cash or a solar loan, you own it, a dead installer leaves you genuinely orphaned, and the companies below are the market. Texas residential solar skews toward loan and cash ownership, so this is the common case here.

The three that check out

Texas Direct Solar

Jiles Construction (Jiles Solar & Roofing)

DNRG Electrical Co. (a division of Destined Energy LLC)

Two companies we found and deliberately did NOT list

A Houston company claiming statewide coverage publishes web pages aimed squarely at this audience, with page titles about what to do when your solar installer goes bankrupt, and it holds a verified TDLR electrical contractor licence at a Houston address.

⛔ We left it off for a reason that is about us, not about them: every page on their site refuses automated retrieval, so we could not read their own words directly. We will not quote a search engine's summary of a page as though we had read the page, on a directory whose only value is that every claim traces to a source you can open yourself. If you are in the Houston area, they look like a real option, and one look at their site will tell you more than we can.

A second company, marketing across Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin and Houston, surfaced with a licence number and a description of detach-and-reset work where installers have disappeared. We found one signal and one only. One signal is not enough to put a company in front of a stranded homeowner, so it is not here.

Neither exclusion is an accusation. Publishing why a company is missing is more useful to you than quietly dropping it, and it tells you exactly what we did and did not check.

What to ask whoever you call

  1. "Do I own this system, or is it a lease or PPA?" Settle this before you dial. If you cannot tell from your paperwork, your finance company can tell you in one call, and the answer changes who pays.
  2. "What is your TECL number?" Then check it at TDLR. Any legitimate contractor expects this question.
  3. "Will you work on a system you didn't install?" All three above say yes in public. Get it confirmed for your equipment.
  4. "Who pulls the permit, and does my city require an inspection for this?" Texas permitting is municipal and varies.
  5. "Do you charge for the diagnostic visit, and how much?" Orphan diagnostic visits are commonly priced separately from the repair.
  6. "Can you file a manufacturer warranty claim for my equipment, or do I file it?" For several brands the labour is not covered even when the part is. Our panel-claims page sets out which manufacturers let you file directly.
  7. "Have you worked on my brand of inverter before?" Inverter diagnostics are where orphaned systems most often stall.

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How this page is maintained, and what it costs you

Nothing, and nobody pays us to be here. We take no listing fee, no referral fee and no commission. If we ever do, this section will say so in plain language before anything else changes.

What we will not do: publish a company we cannot licence-check, rank companies by anything other than the evidence shown, or claim any of them is "approved" by us. They are Texas contractors who say in public that they take orphaned work, with their licence numbers attached. That is the whole claim.