Laid off from Sunrun.

What Sunrun layoffs have meant for employees

If you're trying to find your own job in Sunrun's record, the state notices carry the detail. California's EDD report gives each Sunrun notice a date, an effective date, a count of employees, a layoff or closure label and a street address, and Arizona’s WARN list names each of Sunrun's June 2023 notices by its site, three Phoenix streets and one Mesa listing, along with the ARIZONA@WORK area it falls under, City of Phoenix for the three Phoenix sites and Maricopa County for Mesa. More than once in 2023 Sunrun filed several notices for one county on the same day, including two Fresno addresses in August and three San Diego County sites in November, so a street address is a surer match for your site than a city or a county. Those 2023 notices went to California, Arizona and Florida, and the January 2025 layoffs centered on Colorado. If your Sunrun job was in one of those four states, the unemployment claim process for each is laid out state by state, for California, Arizona, Florida and Colorado.

Sunrun's 2020 cuts fell particularly on retail sales, its first-quarter 2020 10-Q said, as the company moved toward a more digital sales model. That filing reported furlough benefits and severance as one combined cost of $2.2 million for the quarter, so the figure doesn't reveal an individual severance amount. Sunrun's April 2020 release said its labor-related cost actions struck an appropriate balance that considered the welfare of its employees. If Sunrun furloughs you rather than ending your job, a written end date for any benefits it continues gives you something firm to plan around.

Who counts as Sunrun's own staff matters when you look for a layoff in the record. Sunrun's year-end headcounts include its active direct-to-home salesforce among its full-time employees, and the company also engages independent contractors and consultants, its fiscal 2025 10-K says. Its energy system partners are independent contractors in legal terms, by the same filing, and its installation partners, which install a subset of its energy systems, are solely its subcontractors. When Sunrun left Nevada in 2016, it said it expected the local installation companies it partnered with there to lay off workers or close. If your paycheck came from one of those outside firms, that firm's name is the one to look for on a state WARN list.

As of that 10-K, none of Sunrun's employees were covered by collective bargaining agreements, so a layoff at that point had no bargained seniority order or severance scale to follow. The severance plan Sunrun filed in 2018, its key employee severance plan, was written for a select group the company designates, and it replaces any earlier Sunrun severance plan, policy or practice only for those employees. If you weren't designated under it, or never signed and returned a participation agreement, its terms don't reach you.

Sunrun's Nevada exit included a stated hope for the people in it. Sunrun hoped, its January 2016 release said, to move Nevada-based employees into other positions within the company where possible, or to place them with local organizations. When Sunrun scaled back in Colorado in 2025, BusinessDen reported that a maintenance team would stay in the state, and the same report carried a sales representative's account that Sunrun would take on no new projects there. If Sunrun pulls back where you work and offers you a move, the new location, the role and the pay are each worth weighing on their own, apart from what turning it down would mean for any severance.

A sourced history of Sunrun layoffs

• January 2025, Colorado pullback centered on Arvada

  Sunrun was laying off about 100 people as it dialed back its Colorado operations, most of them at its Arvada office, a spokesman told BusinessDen. He put the cut at about 1% of the company's workforce.

• August to November 2023, California layoff notices

  Sunrun's 13 California notices went out on August 2, September 12 and November 14, 2023, as our WARN tracker shows. Fresno, Santa Fe Springs, Palmdale, Vista and San Diego are among the sites EDD’s WARN report lists, and it marks the 39-job Redlands notice a closure.

• June 2023, Arizona notices in Mesa and Phoenix

  Four Sunrun notices dated June 30, 2023 appear on Arizona’s WARN list, one for Mesa and three for Phoenix. Sunrun restructured and laid off workers around the Valley, the University of Arizona’s forecasting project wrote, tallying 80 in Mesa and 276 in Phoenix.

• February 2023, Fort Lauderdale layoff notice

  A Florida notice from Sunrun and Sunrun Installation Services covered 111 jobs in Fort Lauderdale. Dated February 24, 2023, it carries an April 16 effective date in our WARN tracker.

• April 2020, Covid layoffs and furloughs

  Sunrun withdrew its 2020 guidance and said in an April 6 release that labor-related actions had cut quarterly costs by $30 million from first-quarter levels. Business Insider counted about 100 layoffs, a pv magazine report said, with furloughed staff keeping benefits for three months.

• January 2016, Nevada exit after new state rules

  Sunrun ceased all Nevada operations, with hundreds of job losses, it said in a January 2016 release, and called them the direct result of the state utility commission's new rules and of actions by NV Energy and Nevada politicians.

What to do if you're laid off from Sunrun

• File for unemployment in the state where you worked. Benefits run from your filing date, and severance usually doesn't block you. Sunrun's biggest hubs: California, Arizona, Florida. Somewhere else? Every state is here.
• Apply for financial and hardship assistance. Unemployment supplements income, but food benefits, health coverage and utility help are often available as well. Here's some of what Sunrun's hub states run: California, Arizona, Florida, and every other state is here.
• Mind the health insurance window. Losing coverage opens a 60-day special enrollment period, and an ACA plan usually beats unsubsidized COBRA. Compare your options before the employer coverage lapses, and read how the COBRA clocks run if you are weighing it seriously.
• Get your real runway number. Severance plus savings divided by reality. The calculator takes five minutes.
• Know which clocks are already running. Severance review windows, COBRA election, visa grace periods, and 401(k) rollovers all run on federal deadlines that started at termination. All five deadlines are here.