What actually happened to PetersenDean

PetersenDean Roofing & Solar — for years one of the largest privately held roofing and solar companies in the country — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in June 2020 in the Northern District of California. In January 2021, its consumer contracts were acquired by SolarJuice American, a subsidiary of SPI Energy, and the PetersenDean installer brand ceased operating. The former PetersenDean branch in San Diego, on Kenamar Drive in Miramar, was subsequently rebranded under SPI's Solar4America name.

So PetersenDean isn't quite the same story as an installer that simply vanished overnight: a successor company took over its consumer contracts, and if you had a project in flight in 2020–2021, you may have already dealt with SolarJuice or Solar4America. But the company that actually built your roof and installed your panels — the PetersenDean that signed your original contract and issued your workmanship warranty — no longer exists as an operating installer. If you have questions about the status of your specific contract or any warranty commitments a successor may have assumed, contact SolarJuice/Solar4America or consult the bankruptcy court record; we can't speak for them.

We're not PetersenDean — and we don't pretend to be

McKay Roofing & Solar is not affiliated with PetersenDean and did not acquire its assets. We're a San Diego contractor that services the systems its closure left behind. We don't hold PetersenDean's customer records, we can't honor its warranties, and we have no connection to SolarJuice, Solar4America, or SPI Energy. What we can do is put a licensed local crew on your roof and get your system working and monitored again.

What the closure means for your roof and your solar

Your workmanship warranty is typically gone. PetersenDean sold roof-plus-solar packages with workmanship coverage on both the roofing and the installation. When the original installing entity stops operating, that labor warranty typically dies with it — unless a successor expressly assumed it, which is a question for SolarJuice/Solar4America and the court record, not something to assume. This is general information, not legal advice.

Manufacturer warranties usually survive. This is the good news. Panel, inverter, and battery warranties come from the equipment manufacturers, not the installer, and they usually remain in force regardless of what happened to PetersenDean. PetersenDean's packages were typically built with tier-1 modules and SolarEdge string inverters, and SolarEdge in particular runs an active warranty program for optimizers and inverters. McKay handles the claim legwork — diagnosis, RMA paperwork, and the licensed swap-out — so you're not on hold with a manufacturer trying to describe an error code. In many cases we can replace failed equipment at no cost to you under the manufacturer's warranty — our inspection report tells us whether you qualify.

Monitoring may have gone dark. If your monitoring account was set up under the installer's fleet portal, you may have lost visibility when the company wound down. Plenty of PetersenDean-era systems have been quietly underproducing for years without the owner knowing. We can re-register monitoring in your own name so the data belongs to you, not to whichever company installed the system.

The PetersenDean twist: your roof and your solar are the same job

PetersenDean's signature offer in San Diego was the reroof-plus-solar combo — new tile or composition shingle roof with panels installed as part of the same project. That's a great product when the installer sticks around. When it doesn't, it creates a specific headache: if you get a leak near a penetration or a flashing, a roofer will point at the solar and a solar company will point at the roof.

McKay ends that standoff because we hold roofing (C-39), solar (C-10 electrical), and general building (B) licenses under one contractor — CSLB #1130793. One crew owns the whole assembly: the tile or shingle, the flashings and mounts, the wiring, and the inverter. Nobody gets to blame the other trade, because we are the other trade.

What we offer former PetersenDean customers

• $399 system and roof inspection report — credited toward your job. We inspect the array, the electrical, and the roof around every penetration, and give you a written condition report.
• Diagnostics and repair under an active C-10 license. Inverter faults, optimizer failures, arc-fault trips, ground faults, dead strings.
• Monitoring restoration. Get your production data back and registered to you.
• Detach-and-reset for reroofs. If your PetersenDean roof is reaching the end of its life, we remove the array, reroof, and reinstall with new flashings — one contractor, one warranty on our work.
• Battery retrofit. Most PetersenDean-era systems predate today's NEM billing rules; adding storage is how you protect the value of the power you generate.

Talk to a local contractor that's still here

McKay Roofing & Solar has San Diego roots going back to 1981, and we plan our business around still being here when your warranty questions come up in year fifteen. If PetersenDean built your roof or your solar, call (858) 541-1097 to book a $399 inspection report — credited in full toward any work you hire us for — or send us your address and a photo of your inverter and we'll tell you what you have and what it needs.