Volunteer Energy Services is in post-confirmation liquidation, with a liquidating trustee administering remaining estate matters after a confirmed plan became effective in 2023 and with omnibus status conferences now carrying the case toward a possible final decree by year-end 2026. The debtor began the case with its Chapter 11 Voluntary PetitionDkt. 1 on March 25, 2022, after entering bankruptcy as a retail electricity and natural gas supplier with approximately $70 million of scheduled funded and trade debt, including a $30 million PNC first-lien revolver secured by substantially all assets and roughly $40 million of unsecured wholesale energy and transportation obligations described in the First Day DeclarationDkt. 26.
The restructuring path moved from operating-case stabilization into liquidation. The debtor filed successive plan iterations and, by January 2023, was prosecuting a six-class liquidation structure under the Third Amended Chapter 11 Plan of LiquidationDkt. 655. Post-confirmation estate administration continued through claims reconciliation, professional-fee payments, distributions, and litigation, including an adversary proceeding against Columbia Gas Transmission seeking turnover and lien-priority relief through the Columbia Gas adversary complaintDkt. 1.
The current docket posture is mature and administrative. The liquidating trustee’s post-confirmation quarterly reportDkt. 1206 reports $323,320 of current-quarter disbursements, $5.535 million transferred since the plan effective date, full cumulative payment of allowed administrative and general unsecured claims shown in the report, and an expectation that a final decree application will be filed on or before December 31, 2026. The court’s latest case-management order sets telephonic status conferences for June 11, 2026, September 25, 2026, and January 14, 2027, under amended post-confirmation procedures in the .
