100s In Ohio Filing Against Bankrupt Home Solar Firm, W. Subtle Clue As To Nature Of Owner

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More than 400 Ohioans are among customers in multiple states who filed complaints alleging shoddy workmanship and deceptive practices by a North Carolina solar energy systems company that closed and then filed for bankruptcy in October, a Dayton Daily News investigation found.

“It really upsets me that they were able to get away with this and rip off a lot of people,” said Dustin Gilroy, a Bethel Twp. man who bought his solar energy system in October 2020 from the company, Power Home Solar, which changed its name to Pink Energy earlier this year as complaints against it mounted across the U.S.

He is one of 39 people in the nine-county Dayton region and 410 statewide who filed complaints with Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost since January 2021. The consumers are disputing $23.4 million in charges for solar energy systems installed by Pink Energy, according to complaint data provided by Yost’s office. “We ended up spending $46,000 and stuck with stuff that doesn’t work,” Gilroy said. “I got duped.”

A bankruptcy trustee made clear that there is little hope in sight for consumers who are among the 30,000 customers, creditors and former employees receiving bankruptcy notices nationwide as Pink Energy’s assets are collected and liquidated.

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Below, see if you can spot the clue that this “solar installer” might be a crook.

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1. That looks like the cardboard cutout of it