Cali Energy is a local, full-stack-licensed solar installer and battery-storage company serving Burbank — served by Burbank Water and Power, a municipal utility with its own net-metering rules (not the CPUC's NEM 3.0). We handle the Burbank Water and Power interconnection and PTO for you. We're based in Northridge and do every step in-house — solar panels, battery backup, roofing and electrical — under one CSLB license (#1032379: B, C-10, C-39). Below are real Burbank installs, from a 2.67 kW rooftop to a 9.72 kW system.
Get a free Burbank solar estimate11 projects completed across Burbank — a few of them below.
A 9.72 kW system on a flat roof in Burbank — 24 Q CELLS panels, Enphase IQ8M. Installed 2025. Twenty-four Q CELLS 405W panels with Enphase IQ8M microinverters power both the main house and its ADU on a single Burbank Water and Power meter.
A 4.005 kW system on a flat roof in Burbank — 9 Canadian Solar panels, Enphase IQ8A. A 4 kW array of nine 445-watt Canadian Solar panels with Enphase IQ8A microinverters on a flat Burbank roof.
A 4.005 kW system on a flat roof in Burbank — 9 Canadian Solar panels, Enphase IQ8A, ~6,369 kWh/year. Installed 2025. A 4.005 kW system of nine 445 W Canadian Solar panels on Enphase IQ8A microinverters, flush-mounted on a flat roof in Burbank.
A 3.7 kW system on a composition shingle roof in Burbank — 10 REC panels. A straightforward residential install in Burbank, handled end to end.
A 2.67 kW system on a flat roof in Burbank — 6 Canadian Solar panels, Enphase IQ8A. Installed 2025. A compact 2.67 kW rooftop array on a new Burbank ADU, running Enphase IQ8A microinverters.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Burbank. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Burbank. Permitted, installed and taken through to PTO by Cali Energy.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Burbank. Roof-mounted array built for years of low-maintenance output.
Eleven Burbank case studies go further than the photographs above — what the roof was, what the service took, how the permit and the interconnection actually ran, and what happened after the system was switched on.
Burbank runs its own utility, and no solar is permitted until Burbank Water and Power has reviewed the plans. On one Burbank job the city's instant permit waited three months behind the utility's review, with three rounds of drawing corrections, a size review and a field visit, and Cali Energy carried the system to BWP's permission-to-operate letter in May 2025. Burbank addresses inside Los Angeles city limits, in parts of ZIP codes 91504 and 91505, go through LADBS and LADWP instead.
Burbank Water and Power decides at its field visit whether a service can be upgraded where it stands. On a 2019 job the overhead drop could not keep its clearance over the pool beneath it, so the owner kept the 100-amp panel, we redesigned the array around it in a day, and the final passed in January 2020. On a Burbank ADU whose main panel had no spare space, the array went into a subpanel instead of a service upgrade, and BWP left the system running in October 2021.
Main panel upgrades in Burbank →On our 2025 Burbank detach and reset, the first visit cleared the roof and sealed the old holes for the roofer; the second, three weeks later, set new flashed attachments into the new shingle and returned the original modules to service that afternoon.
Solar removal and reinstall in Burbank →On a leaking Burbank tile roof in 2023 the tile itself was sound, so we kept it: about 300 square feet came up, everything underneath was renewed, and the original tile went back in September, with spares kept for breakage.
Roofing in Burbank →One licensed contractor covers solar, battery, roofing and electrical, so the job does not get handed between companies.
Based in Northridge, we know Burbank Water and Power permitting and net metering inside out.
11+ installs in Burbank and work across Southern California since 2017.
Cali Energy · 19201 Parthenia St, Unit E, Northridge, CA 91324 · CSLB #1032379 (B, C-10, C-39)
