PosiGen

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11 trustee but still shaped the settlement and sale path. By the confirmed plan's estimates, general unsecured creditors recover less than 1%, existing equity is wiped out, and the remaining economic value flows through a Brookfield-shaped credit-bid transaction and plan trust rather than a traditional reorganization. Debtor(s) PosiGen, PBC and affiliated debtors Court U.S. Bankruptcy Court, Southern District of Texas Case Number 25-90787 Petition Date November 24, 2025 Confirmation Date February 24, 2026 Effective Date February 26, 2026 Judge Hon. Christopher M. Lopez Plan Administrator Ephraim Diamond DIP Facility Up to $41 million Customers / Footprint 40,000+ customers across 15 states Case Snapshot Why PosiGen Filed PosiGen built its business around residential solar and energy-efficiency offerings for lower-income and working-class households. The company was founded in New Orleans in 2011, later became a Certified B Corporation , and marketed a no-upfront-cost lease model meant to reach customers that mainstream rooftop solar often misses. By late 2024, Brookfield Asset Management had provided another $200 million of funding , reinforcing the idea that PosiGen could keep scaling a solar-for-all strategy even as other installers retrenched. By September 2025, the company had already engaged advisers to explore debt restructuring , which shows that the financing pressure predated the eventual chapter 11 filing by more than two months. The capital structure behind that strategy was more brittle than the social-mission branding suggested. The confirmed plan says the debtors entered chapter 11 with about $121 million of secured funded debt, roughly $90.7 million of unsecured funded debt, and a non-debtor project-level stack that included approximately $600 million under the Backleverage facility, about $32.8 million under a Connecticut Green Bank second-lien facility, and about $6.6 million under a DC Green Bank third-lien facility. The same plan record says the debtors were also carrying about $19 million owed to channel partners and about $25 million of vendor payables. The immediate trigger was a summer 2025 liquidity break. The confirmation record says PosiGen chose not to make a July 31, 2025 interest payment under the Backleverage facility so it could preserve cash for channel-partner payments and operating expenses while it pursued bridge financing and a potential asset sale. Brookfield then froze cash in the Backleverage account on August 6, sent a default notice on August 12, and accelerated the facility on August 15. On August 24, PosiGen moved onto a week-to-week transition-services arrangement and laid off most of its workforce , ending the development business and keeping only a servicing and administrative core. By December, the restructuring itself had drawn creditor doubt over PosiGen's ability to manage funds after advisers found collateral and cash-management problems. The market backdrop made that unraveling harder to stop. Reuters tied the bankruptcy to cuts in solar tax credits and subsidies , while regional coverage showed how quickly the business pulled back in late summer 2025. PV Magazine reported that PosiGen had ceased most operations by August, and WHYY said federal credit rollbacks made financing harder to secure . The bankruptcy came after months of layoffs , Solar Power World later reported. For a company built on long-duration residential contracts and policy-linked financing, those pressures hit directly at the model's ability to keep originating and completing new systems. How Bridge Financing Turned Into Fraud And Trustee Allegations The most important development in the court record is that PosiGen's own advisers said they found serious ownership and cash-management defects while diligence was underway. The confirmation order says roughly 7,200 projects had at one point been recorded as sold to more than one entity without first cancelling the earlier transfer. The same record says lease revenues from multiple project companies were deposited into a single KeyBank lease-revenue account and had historically been used to fund operating accounts even though the financing documents contemplated tighter segregation. Those findings fed directly into the case's fraud-allegation narrative. Connecticut Green Bank's trustee motion argued that management had engaged in double pledging, unauthorized asset sales, commingling, unauthorized Brookfield borrowing while insolvent, and misrepresentations to the district court. List Government Receivables Fund's trustee motion went further, alleging that bridge-loan proceeds had been pushed into a general operating slush fund and that management could not be trusted to investigate its own conduct or negotiate estate-value-maximizing settlements. Those were allegations, not adjudicated findings, but they mattered because they changed the leverage inside the chapter 11. The debtors were no longer just arguing for ordinary first-day relief or a sale timeline. They were defending management's legitimacy while their own plan record described overlapping collateral claims and cash practices that violated parts of the financing structure. The result was a case in which trustee litigation, DIP financing, plan releases, and settlement negotiations all became parts of the same fight. That broader control narrative was not limited to the chapter 11 docket. A December 2025 industry analysis put Brookfield in the hot seat as the senior lender in the collapse. Law360 also reported that the U.S. Trustee objected to executive bonuses and that another creditor claimed project revenue was being used to fund the chapter 11 cases . Separately, Law360 reported that a Connecticut control suit against Brookfield affiliates was dismissed with prejudice in February 2026. Even with that dismissal, the theme of who controlled PosiGen's restructuring path remained central through confirmation. Brookfield's Settlement, DIP, And Credit-Bid Path The debtors' combined DIP and sale motion set the architecture that later drove the confirmed outcome. It proposed a DIP facility of up to $41 million, including an $8 million Brookfield roll-up, project-proceeds DIP loans, and $14.48 million of final-order new money. It also contemplated a sale of substantially all debtor assets through a DIP credit bid unless an outside bidder paid the DIP in full in cash. That structure moved from proposal to approved transaction on February 11, 2026, when the court entered the transaction approval order . The order approved the global settlement, the servicing-transition procedures, and the sale transaction. It also found the settlement to be a good-faith compromise that resolved disputes among the s...

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