Is Meraki Solar Still in Business? No — Here Is What the Record Shows

No — Meraki Installers is out of business. The Pensacola-based solar company sold its assets to Freedom Forever in July 2024, then liquidated through a legal process called an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors, filed August 19, 2025 in Escambia County state court. The Better Business Bureau now lists Meraki as no longer in business. If a Meraki system sits on a roof in Florida, the practical question is not whether the company is coming back — it isn't — but what the paperwork says and what the public record shows.

What happened to Meraki Installers

Meraki was a sales-focused solar company based in Pensacola, strongest in the Panhandle but licensed to work statewide. Florida was one of six states where it sold systems, alongside Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, South Carolina, and Texas. In July 2024 it sold its assets to Freedom Forever, and Freedom Forever became the official subcontractor for Meraki's customers. Just over a year later, on August 19, 2025, the company was liquidated through an Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors in Escambia County — a state-court process where a closing company's remaining assets are handed to an assignee to pay creditors.

The Florida DBPR license database still shows qualifier Kyle A. Kuecker d/b/a Meraki Installers LLC holding Certified Solar Contractor license CVC57201 — status 'Current, Active,' expiring August 31, 2026 — even though the company is defunct. (A second number, CVC57044, also appears in license listings.) A license that reads 'Current, Active' does not mean a company is still answering the phone. One database alone never tells the whole story, which is why the records have to be pulled, dated, and read together.

The company that took over is in its own bankruptcy

Freedom Forever — the #2 residential solar installer in the country in 2025, with a 6.1% market share per Wood Mackenzie — took over Meraki's Florida customers after the 2024 asset sale. It is now in an active Chapter 11 bankruptcy in Delaware. On June 15, 2026, it pivoted from reorganizing to selling substantially all of its assets, with bids due in early August and an auction targeted for mid-August 2026. No stalking-horse buyer — a pre-selected lead bidder — has been named yet. So the support path for Meraki customers has now passed through two troubled companies in two years.

What this means for a Florida homeowner with a Meraki system

Start with the steady part. The equipment on the roof — panels, inverters — typically carries manufacturer warranties, and a warranty registered with the manufacturer survives an installer's collapse. The manufacturer made that promise, not Meraki. What closes with an installer is the installer's own workmanship coverage — the promise to fix problems tied to the installation itself. What any individual contract provides on either front is a question for the documents, and ultimately for a Florida-licensed attorney.

The financing is separate. Meraki was a sales and installation company, not a lender — customers financed through third parties. A loan or financing agreement is a contract with the finance company, and an installer's closure does not, by itself, end it. BBB complaints name Dividend Finance on accounts left behind by the collapse; in one complaint, Dividend told a customer that post-collapse service was "not their responsibility." The full list of lenders on Meraki deals is not verified, which is one more reason the paperwork matters more than anyone's memory of the sales pitch.

The records worth pulling now

• Permit history — the city or county building department's file on the installation: what was filed, when, and whether the permit was properly closed out.
• License verification — the DBPR record for the contractor license in effect on the installation date, saved or printed with the date visible.
• PTO letter — the 'permission to operate' letter from the utility, which documents when the system was cleared to run.
• Contract and loan file — the signed installation agreement and every financing document, including anything signed on a tablet at the kitchen table.

Free complaint channels also exist, and no attorney is needed to use them. The Florida DBPR takes complaints about licensed contractors, the Florida Attorney General's office takes consumer complaints, and the CFPB takes complaints about financing companies. Filing is free, and each complaint becomes part of the public record.

Records first, attorney after

Our process runs in one direction: documents before conversations. The free Records Check starts with an upload — the contract, the loan papers, or even just the property address — and comes back within one business day with what the public record shows. The $99 Complete Report assembles the full picture: permit history, license history, corporate filings, and where the installer and its successor stand today. After the report is finished, we connect homeowners who want one with independent Florida consumer-protection attorneys — we take no fee from any attorney. We are not lawyers; only a Florida-licensed attorney can say what the records mean for a person's contract, loan, or options. Attorneys act on documents, not stories, and that is exactly why the records come first.

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