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GivEnergy has entered administration. Is it still in business — and what about your warranty?

GivEnergy Ltd entered administration on 9 April 2026. This page sets out the verifiable record — what happened, who the administrator is, which companies are affected, and what UK owners can do now. Updated as the administrator and the wider GivEnergy group publish further information. Latest (7 June 2026): the administrator has now filed the Statement of Proposals at Companies House — unsecured creditors are owed more than £17m, remaining stock was written down to about £115,000, and no buyer has been confirmed.
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Carolyn Addison · Jun 2026 Google

Ron is a super star. Two months ago my GivEnergy battery failed a firmware upgrade leaving it a brick. My installer couldn't/wouldn't fix it. GivEnergy couldn't/wouldn't fix it. Then they went into administration and all hope was lost. A flurry of emails later and Ron had diagnosed the fault (failed USB flash drive, something I'd suspected) and talked me through resolving it. Two months of nothing resolved in about 3 hours. It's great to work with someone who pays attention to the details, knows that they're doing (not just following a script) and gets stuff sorted without a fuss or up-charging.

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THE VERIFIABLE RECORD
Facts

What is on the public record

Everything below about the GivEnergy administration is sourced from primary records — Companies House and The London Gazette — or from the administrator's own statement (published via ess-news and the ESA FAQ). Where the underlying source is industry coverage rather than a primary filing, we cite the article. Where the facts are uncertain, we say so.

9 April 2026
Date of appointment

GivEnergy Ltd entered Administration on 9 April 2026. The underlying court application was lodged on 7 April 2026. The insolvency was recorded in the London Gazette notice 5109664 (published 10 April 2026).

High Court
Court and case number

High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts in Leeds. Case number CR-2026-LDS-000357. The court records are public; the Gazette notice records the order.

Insolvency Practitioner
The administrator

Christopher Brooksbank (IP number 9658), CB Business Recovery Ltd, Ground Floor Offices, Riverside Mills, Saddleworth Road, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0RY. Day-to-day contact: Mark Barlow, 01422 485690, mark@cb-br.co.uk. Creditor enquiries: info@cb-br.co.uk.

GivEnergy Ltd
The administered entity

GivEnergy Ltd, Companies House registration 11571089. Incorporated 17 September 2018. Registered office: Osprey House Brymbo Road, Lymedale Business Park, Newcastle, Staffordshire, ST5 9HX. Nature of business: battery storage and related renewable items.

Status now
GivEnergy Ltd has ceased to trade

This is administration, not liquidation. Per the administrator's statement (16 April 2026): "the Company has ceased to trade and all its employees have been made redundant. As a consequence no further goods or services should be provided to the Company." Hardware warranties will not be honoured by GivEnergy Ltd. GivEnergy Ltd support lines and the GivEnergy helpline have closed; an independent engineer can take over technical support.

Still trading
The rest of the group is NOT in administration

The administrator has explicitly listed the entities NOT covered by his appointment: GivEnergy Group Ltd (parent, CH 14404895), GivEnergy Commercial Ltd, GivEnergy Australia PTY Ltd, Giveducation Ltd, GivEnergy Software Ltd (CH 14899764, runs the app + portal), GivEnergy Property Ltd, Satori Education Ltd.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
For owners

Practical options if you own a GivEnergy system

GivEnergy has effectively gone bust as a manufacturer, and the administration is bad news for warranty enforcement — but it does not stop your system working. Here are the paths owners actually take, ordered roughly from "lowest cost / easiest" to "most drastic". Most owners will land in the first two rows.

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Warranty
Check your warranty options

Direct claims against GivEnergy Ltd will not succeed. Routes that may still work: installer workmanship cover, insurance-backed guarantee (IBG), Section 75 credit-card protection, MCS Consumer Code. Each route has its own evidence requirements.

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PRIMARY SOURCES
Citations

Where the facts on this page come from

Every claim above can be verified against one of these public records. We update this page as new filings appear (administrator's Statement of Proposals was filed at Companies House in late May 2026).

Companies House
GivEnergy Ltd (11571089)

Company profile, filing history, insolvency notices, registered charges. The authoritative record of the administered entity.

View on Companies House
Companies House
GivEnergy Software Ltd (14899764)

Profile of the separate entity that runs the app + portal. Active at the time of writing; check the Companies House profile for current status.

View on Companies House
The Gazette
Appointment of Administrators (notice 5109664)

The official Gazette notice — date of appointment, court case number, registered office, administrator contact. Published 10 April 2026.

View on The Gazette
ESA
Energy Storage Association — GivEnergy FAQs

Trade-body guidance for owners. Includes the administrator's full statement and the GivEnergy Software paid-cloud plan (GivEnergy Premium, now live). Last updated 17 April 2026.

Read the ESA FAQ
Industry coverage
ess-news — Administrator statement (13 Apr 2026)

Full text of the administrator's statement plus ESA guidance roundup. The most complete single source for the administration story.

Read on ess-news
Industry coverage
Spirit Energy — Homeowner perspective

Plain-English homeowner explainer published 17 April 2026. Covers what the products were, the financial backdrop, and the practical implications.

Read Spirit Energy
FAQ

Frequently asked questions

GivEnergy Ltd (Companies House registration 11571089) entered Administration on 9 April 2026. The appointment was published in The London Gazette as notice 5109664 on 10 April 2026, and the underlying court application (case CR-2026-LDS-000357) was lodged on 7 April 2026 at the High Court of Justice, Business and Property Courts in Leeds.
GivEnergy Ltd is in administration, not liquidation. Administration is an insolvency process where an appointed administrator runs the company to try to rescue it, sell it, or wind it down in an orderly way — it is not the same as liquidation, the final closure and asset sale. As of June 2026, GivEnergy Ltd has ceased trading and is no longer in business as a manufacturer, but the final outcome (a sale of the business or a wind-down) is still being decided. So if you are asking "is GivEnergy still in business?" — the hardware manufacturer GivEnergy Ltd is not, though the wider GivEnergy group and GivEnergy Software Ltd (which runs the app and portal) are still trading.
The Administrator is Christopher Brooksbank (IP number 9658) of CB Business Recovery Ltd. The administrator's office address is Ground Floor Offices, Riverside Mills, Saddleworth Road, Elland, West Yorkshire, HX5 0RY. Day-to-day contact is Mark Barlow, Senior Case Administrator — phone 01422 485690 or email mark@cb-br.co.uk. General creditor enquiries: info@cb-br.co.uk. Known creditors will receive formal notification directly.
No. Only GivEnergy Ltd (the hardware-manufacturer entity) is in administration. The administrator has explicitly stated his appointment does NOT cover: GivEnergy Group Limited (parent, CH 14404895), GivEnergy Commercial Limited, GivEnergy Australia PTY Ltd, Giveducation Limited, GivEnergy Software Limited (CH 14899764 — runs the app/portal), GivEnergy Property Limited, and Satori Education Limited. Those entities remain trading and any enquiries relating to them should be directed to them, not the administrator.
Per coverage of GivEnergy Ltd's 2024 annual report (Spirit Energy blog, ess-news), revenue was approximately £50.3m but the company swung from a £6.2m operating profit the prior year to a £6.5m operating loss in 2024 — attributed in the accounts to "poor leadership and a failure to respond to significant price reductions from foreign competitors". The administration filing followed pressure from price competition with overseas (largely Chinese) battery manufacturers. The administrator's Statement of Proposals (filed at Companies House in late May 2026) set out the full picture: unsecured creditors are owed more than £17m, and about £11m of stock was written down to roughly £115,000.
The administrator has been explicit: "no further hardware warranties will be honoured by GivEnergy Ltd". In practical terms, a direct warranty claim against GivEnergy Ltd is unlikely to succeed. Alternative routes that may still be open: (1) workmanship cover from your installer if they are still trading; (2) insurance-backed guarantee (IBG) if your installer carried one and you have the certificate; (3) Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 if you paid by credit card; (4) MCS Consumer Code redress if your installation was MCS-certified. Our warranty page walks through each route in detail.
Yes. Your battery and inverter are hardware that runs on locally-stored firmware. They continue to charge, discharge, run EPS backup, and follow local schedules regardless of GivEnergy Ltd's status. What is at risk is the cloud / app / portal experience.
Yes. The app and portal are run by a separate company, GivEnergy Software Ltd (Companies House 14899764), which is NOT in administration — so day-to-day monitoring continues. What has changed is that GivEnergy Software has moved the cloud to a paid tier: GivEnergy Premium now costs £4.99/month for the full app and portal features (live and historical data, remote access, and the API that feeds Home Assistant), while basic local control stays free. This is separate from the administration. You can keep the premium features without paying the £4.99 yourself by joining a virtual power plant (VPP) flexibility scheme — for example Axle Energy covers the GivEnergy Premium fee in return for letting them manage your battery during grid events (Axle advertises a guaranteed minimum of around £10/month for taking part), which is currently the only way to get premium portal access for free. And if you would rather come off the GivEnergy cloud altogether, your system still runs locally — an independent engineer can read and control it over local Modbus / GivTCP, and third-party tools such as Home Assistant integrations restore monitoring on your own network with no subscription.
The built-in local battery management system (BMS) continues to monitor cell voltages, temperatures, and balancing, and will safely shut the battery down if there is any internal fault. This is true regardless of GivEnergy's commercial status. Per ESA guidance: do not under any circumstances try to open, remove, or tamper with the battery yourself — there are dangerous high-voltage components inside. If you see physical damage, smoke, hissing, or any other unusual behaviour, evacuate the area and call the fire services. Otherwise, the safety systems work.
The administrator's default advice is to "revert to your installer", which is not helpful if your installer has also ceased trading. This is a common pattern in the current solar market. Your options: (1) we are independent of all installers and can take over technical support for your system — see our installer-gone-bust hub; (2) the MCS database (mcscertified.com) shows whether your installation was MCS-registered, which keeps consumer-code protections alive; (3) Section 75 if your purchase was on a credit card; (4) MCS Consumer Code complaints if there is a documented MCS-certified original installer. We can help you assemble the documentation for any of these.
Unknown at the time of writing. The administrator has not yet published a position on inventory disposal. Major distributors (e.g. Midsummer Energy) have de-listed GivEnergy products with immediate effect, citing doubts on warranty, technical support, firmware, and spare parts continuity. We expect a clearer picture of spare-parts availability when the administrator's Statement of Proposals was filed in late May 2026, which valued remaining stock at about £115,000 (written down from roughly £11m) but set no clear position on parts resale. In the meantime, third-party suppliers and refurbished units may emerge if the parent is wound up and inventory is sold off.
Almost certainly not. The hardware works, and replacing a working battery and inverter is expensive (£8,000–£15,000+ in equipment alone, plus install) for what is mostly an emotional response to bad news. The legitimate reasons to replace are: a real fault that cannot be repaired (rare — most "faults" are configuration or firmware), a smart-tariff integration you genuinely cannot live without and cannot recreate locally, or a planned upgrade you were going to do anyway. For everyone else: a free remote diagnostic from STS will tell you exactly what is happening with your system and what you actually need to do. Most owners need to do nothing.
Unknown. Administrators can sell the business as a going concern, sell assets piecemeal, or wind the company up — what happens depends on the offers received during the administration. Industry reporting (ess-news, Installer Online) notes interest from various parties but no buyer has been confirmed at the time of writing. A sale to a credible buyer could restore some manufacturer support; an asset-only sale would not. We will update this page as the administrator publishes more information.
Partly. The hardware manufacturer, GivEnergy Ltd (Companies House 11571089), is not still in business — it entered administration on 9 April 2026, has ceased trading and all its employees have been made redundant. However, the wider GivEnergy group is still trading, and GivEnergy Software Ltd (Companies House 14899764), the separate company that runs the app and portal, is NOT in administration. So the firm that made and warrantied your battery and inverter has stopped, but the app behind your monitoring is, for now, unaffected. Our warranty page covers what this means for any claim.
In everyday terms, yes — the manufacturer has gone bust. GivEnergy Ltd went into administration on 9 April 2026 (London Gazette notice 5109664), has ceased to trade, and is no longer in business as a battery and inverter manufacturer. Strictly, administration is not the same as liquidation: an administrator runs the company to try to rescue it, sell it, or wind it down in an orderly way, whereas liquidation is final closure. As of June 2026 GivEnergy Ltd is in administration, not liquidation, and the final outcome is still being decided. Importantly, GivEnergy Software Ltd (Companies House 14899764), which runs the app and portal, is a separate company and is NOT in administration.
No — not at the time of writing. No buyer has been confirmed for GivEnergy Ltd. Industry reporting (ess-news, Installer Online) notes interest from various parties, but the administrator's Statement of Proposals (filed at Companies House in late May 2026) recorded remaining stock written down to about £115,000 and unsecured creditors owed more than £17m. A credible going-concern buyer could restore some manufacturer support; an asset-only sale would not. Note this concerns GivEnergy Ltd's assets — GivEnergy Software Ltd (the app and portal) is a separate company and is unaffected.
Not directly against the manufacturer. The administrator has been explicit that "no further hardware warranties will be honoured by GivEnergy Ltd", so a direct battery-warranty claim against GivEnergy Ltd is unlikely to succeed now that it is in administration. Your battery itself keeps working — it runs on locally-stored firmware and continues to charge, discharge and run EPS backup regardless of GivEnergy Ltd's status. For cover, the routes that may still be open are: (1) workmanship cover from your installer if they are still trading; (2) an insurance-backed guarantee (IBG) if your installer carried one and you have the certificate; (3) Section 75 of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 if you paid by credit card; (4) MCS Consumer Code redress if your installation was MCS-certified. Our warranty page walks through each battery-warranty route in detail.
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