What happened to Renova

Renova Energy was the Coachella Valley's best-known solar company — Palm Desert headquarters, a large local crew, and a long run of residential and commercial installs across Riverside County and into Arizona.

The trouble started upstream. Renova was a SunPower dealer, and when SunPower collapsed in the summer of 2024 Renova temporarily halted operations in California and Arizona, furloughing roughly 300 workers before restarting later that August with a much smaller team. It did not recover. In March 2026, Renova Energy filed for Chapter 7 liquidation in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California. NBC Palm Springs reported the company owed approximately $16 million.

Chapter 7 is not a reorganization. It is a wind-down: a trustee sells what there is and the company ceases to exist.

About Mycrogrid — and about your warranty

Renova's founder, Vincent Battaglia, launched a new company called Mycrogrid, which began operating as an installer in June 2026. It is a separate legal entity under the same owner. The Coachella Valley Independent described it as a complete restart rather than a continuation of Renova.

That distinction matters, and we are going to be straight with you about it because we have seen homeowners get this wrong. The public record does not settle whether your Renova workmanship warranty is still enforceable. Battaglia stated publicly in January 2026 that anyone with an active Renova warranty would have it honored under its terms. After the Chapter 7 filing in March, NBC Palm Springs reported only that warranties "may eventually be honored." No source we can find confirms that Mycrogrid legally assumed Renova's obligations, and a Chapter 7 liquidation generally extinguishes the old company's contractual commitments.

So: do not assume it is void, and do not assume it is good. Ask Mycrogrid in writing whether they will honor your specific warranty, and keep the answer. That is a five-minute email that could be worth thousands of dollars, and it costs you nothing.

One more thread: customers whose systems were on SunPower leases were transferred to SunStrong Management. If that is you, your lease servicer is a separate question from who fixes the hardware.

What is not in doubt

Your equipment warranties almost certainly survive. Panel, inverter, and battery warranties come from the manufacturers, not from Renova. Those companies are still operating. The practical catch is that filing a claim generally requires a licensed contractor to diagnose the failure, pull the part, and complete the paperwork — which is exactly the service that disappeared. We handle that legwork for our customers, and in many cases we can replace failed equipment at no cost to you under the manufacturer's warranty. The inspection report tells us whether you qualify.

Your monitoring may have gone quiet. If the portal was set up under Renova's account, alerts likely stopped when the company did. Desert systems in particular are worth watching — heat is hard on inverters, and an array that quietly drops a string in June is an expensive thing to notice in December.

Your financing continues. A loan or lease is a separate contract with a separate company and is unaffected by the installer's bankruptcy. Questions about the balance go to your lender, not to a contractor.

What we do for orphaned systems

• A $399 solar and roof inspection report, credited toward your job — production audit against what your system should be making, wiring and connector inspection, and a look at every roof penetration the original crew made. Findings in writing.
• Diagnostics and repair under an active C-10 electrical license — failed microinverters, optimizers, arc faults, rapid-shutdown issues, and the manufacturer warranty claims that go with them.
• Monitoring restoration — getting your Enphase, SolarEdge, or Tesla portal registered under your own name so you can see what the system is actually doing.
• Detach-and-reset for reroofs — we hold roofing (C-39), general building (B), and electrical (C-10) under one company, so one crew removes the array, replaces the roof, and reinstalls the system. No finger-pointing between two contractors.
• Battery retrofits — adding storage to an existing array, sized for NEM 3.0 economics if your system is on the newer tariff.

Estimates are always free — no deposit, no pressure. CSLB #1130793.

Where we work

McKay Roofing and Solar is based in San Diego — 9520 Padgett St, Suite 107 — and has been at this since 1981. We hold a California state contractor's license, CSLB #1130793, covering general building (B), electrical (C-10), and roofing (C-39), and we take work across Southern California. If you are outside San Diego County, call and we will tell you plainly whether we can get a crew to you and what that looks like. We would rather say no on the phone than waste your afternoon.

Not sure who actually installed your system?

Many installs were sold by one company and built by another — the installer of record is on your building permit. We keep a guide for each major closed installer in Southern California; the full directory is here. A few of the big ones:

• Titan Solar Power · SunPower · PetersenDean · Sungevity
• Sullivan Solar Power · Freedom Forever · Vivint Solar · Swell Energy

The case for looking now

Equipment claims are cleanest while serial numbers and install paperwork are still easy to match, and an underperforming array costs you every month it goes unnoticed — often while a solar payment continues either way. One visit tells you where the system stands, whether claims are worth filing, and whether the roof underneath it is sound. The $399 report is credited in full toward any work you hire us for.