Rooftop solar — Glendale
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Clean, low-profile panel layout that follows the roof lines.
Cali Energy is a local, full-stack-licensed solar installer and battery-storage company serving Glendale — served by Glendale Water and Power, a municipal utility with its own net-metering rules (not the CPUC's NEM 3.0). We handle the Glendale 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 Glendale installs.
Get a free Glendale solar estimate17 projects completed across Glendale — a few of them below.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Clean, low-profile panel layout that follows the roof lines.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Installed 2025. This Glendale home went solar and earned Permission to Operate from Glendale Water and Power.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Tidy conduit routing with a flush roof mount.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale — Enphase microinverters. Installed 2025. All-black panel array on a composition-shingle roof with Enphase microinverters in Glendale.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Even panel spacing laid out to keep shading to a minimum.
A rooftop solar system on a flat roof in Glendale. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a flat roof in Glendale — Enphase microinverters. Installed 2020. Roof-mounted on a flat built-up roof with tilt-up racking and Enphase microinverters.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale — SolarEdge HD-Wave. Installed 2022. SolarEdge solar system with an integrated EV charger.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Clean, low-profile panel layout that follows the roof lines.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale — SolarEdge, SolarEdge Home battery. Installed 2025. A Glendale home re-roofed from Spanish tile to shingle, then added a SolarEdge system with a SolarEdge Home battery for backup.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Glendale. Tidy conduit routing with a flush roof mount.
A rooftop solar system in Glendale — 6 Canadian Solar panels, Enphase IQ8Plus. Installed 2022. A compact 6-panel Enphase microinverter ADU system in Glendale, passed final inspection in January 2023.
Glendale runs its own utility, and the utility goes first: Glendale Water & Power approves the solar before the City of Glendale's Building & Safety issues the permit, and every separately metered home on a lot goes through both on its own. On a lot with two new ADUs, Cali Energy installed both units' arrays in one day and had them switched on in May 2025, then took the main house to permission to operate that December. Addresses in La Crescenta, which shares ZIP code 91214 with Glendale, are unincorporated county on SCE, with LA County permits.
Glendale's permit record follows the address. On one house a panel permit opened earlier under someone else's name was still on file, so we paid the open balance and refiled it as contractor of record the same day; a new 200-amp panel went in where Glendale Water & Power's service spot placed it, and the system was switched on in December 2021.
Main panel upgrades in Glendale →On our Glendale battery project the battery came after the solar, in May 2026, with its own city permit and final and its own storage release from Glendale Water & Power. Seven circuits moved to a backup panel, the refrigerator, the kitchen outlets and the office among them, and the utility released the storage on 21 May.
Home batteries in Glendale →For systems above 10 kW AC, Glendale Water & Power limits net-metered size to 110% of the last year's usage, plus 4,375 kWh a year per electric vehicle registered to the address. With two vehicles registered, a 52-module, 20.8 kW array passed the utility's review and was switched on in August 2023. On another Glendale house the charger went up beside the inverter with the solar in 2022, and we connected it when the car arrived in 2025.
EV chargers in Glendale →Our 2022 Glendale re-roof needed the city's planning approval before the roofing permit, because the material changed from concrete tile to shingle; the tear-off went down to the plank deck, and the roofing final was signed off three days after the first tile came off. On a clay barrel tile roof in 2025, only the array footprint became shingle, and that system had permission to operate a week after its final.
Roofing in Glendale →One licensed contractor covers solar, battery, roofing and electrical, so the job does not get handed between companies.
Based in Northridge, we know Glendale Water and Power permitting and net metering inside out.
17+ installs in Glendale and work across Southern California since 2017.
Cali Energy · 19201 Parthenia St, Unit E, Northridge, CA 91324 · CSLB #1032379 (B, C-10, C-39)
