Cali Energy is a local, full-stack-licensed solar installer and battery-storage company serving Santa Clarita — served by Southern California Edison (SCE). Under SCE's NEM 3.0 tariff, pairing solar with a battery is what makes the numbers work in Santa Clarita — and that's how we design every system. 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 Santa Clarita installs, from a 6.075 kW rooftop to a 11.34 kW system.
Get a free Santa Clarita solar estimate40 projects completed across Santa Clarita — a few of them below.
A 11.34 kW system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita — 28 Q CELLS 405W panels, Enphase IQ8M microinverters, Enphase IQ Battery 5P x4. Installed 2024. An 11.3 kW system with four Enphase batteries for whole-home backup power.
A 9.52 kW system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — 28 Hanwha Q.PEAK DUO BLK-G6 panels, Enphase IQ7+ microinverters. Installed 2021. A clean 9.5 kW all-black array on a tile roof with Enphase microinverters.
A 9.49 kW system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — 26 Solaria PowerXT 365 panels, SolarEdge, ~9,490 kWh/year. Installed 2021. A 9.5 kW SolarEdge system with 26 high-efficiency panels, sized for about 9,500 kWh a year.
A 6.075 kW system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — 15 REC405AA panels, Enphase IQ8M microinverters. Installed 2023. A 6.1 kW system with 15 premium REC panels and Enphase microinverters on a tile roof.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Even panel spacing laid out to keep shading to a minimum.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Permitted, installed and taken through to PTO by Cali Energy.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. Roof-mounted array built for years of low-maintenance output.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Clean, low-profile panel layout that follows the roof lines.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. Sized to cover most of the home's annual electricity use.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Tidy conduit routing with a flush roof mount.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. A straightforward residential install in Santa Clarita, handled end to end.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — Enphase microinverters. Installed 2022. All-black REC panels with Enphase microinverters on a tile roof.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — Enphase microinverters. Installed 2025. Permitted, installed and taken through to PTO by Cali Energy.
A rooftop solar system in Santa Clarita — Enphase, Enphase IQ Battery x2. Solar paired with two Enphase batteries for whole-home backup during outages.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. Sleek all-black panels on a single street-facing roof plane.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita — 22 panels, Sol-Ark 12K hybrid. Installed 2021. Paired with a full GAF shingle re-roof, so the new array went onto a fresh, watertight roof.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2021. Tidy conduit routing with a flush roof mount.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. All-black 365W REC panels on a clay-tile roof, paired with a main panel upgrade.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Even panel spacing laid out to keep shading to a minimum.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Permitted, installed and taken through to PTO by Cali Energy.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. Solar installed right after a fresh roof - both done in one project.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Clean, low-profile panel layout that follows the roof lines.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — Enphase IQ7+ microinverters. An Enphase microinverter system on a Spanish-tile roof.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. A larger array spread across a tile roof.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita — SolarEdge. Installed 2020. A tile-roof system we've supported for years, with warranty service handled in-house.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2022. Even panel spacing laid out to keep shading to a minimum.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Designed for daily bill offset and long-term energy savings.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Permitted, installed and taken through to PTO by Cali Energy.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita — SolarEdge. Roof-mounted array built for years of low-maintenance output.
A rooftop solar system on a composition shingle roof in Santa Clarita. Installed 2021. A clean rooftop install on composition shingle, passed city final inspection.
A rooftop solar system on a tile roof in Santa Clarita. Sized to cover most of the home's annual electricity use.
Sixteen Santa Clarita 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.
In Santa Clarita, solar, battery and panel permits come from one of two offices: the city's Building & Safety, which has issued qualifying ones online on the spot since May 2026, or LA County Public Works for Stevenson Ranch, Castaic and the other unincorporated areas. Southern California Edison connects both. Not every array here goes on a roof: on one Santa Clarita lot Cali Energy set the array on posts in concrete, with an underground run back to the house, and the final passed in December 2022.
On one Santa Clarita house the service panel was recessed into the wall, so we sourced a flush-mount replacement that fit the existing opening and put it in before booking the final, and the permit closed on a single clean inspection in July 2022. On another, a plan revision proposed derating the main breaker; the busbar turned out to be rated 225 amps, so the main stayed at full size and the final passed in January 2022.
Main panel upgrades in Santa Clarita →Four of the twenty systems we monitor in Santa Clarita's ZIP codes include a battery. On our whole-home backup project the county fire department's storage review required the four battery units outdoors, so they went on an outside wall with three feet of clear space shown on the elevation drawing, and the house has had backup since permission to operate in January 2025.
Home batteries in Santa Clarita →Twenty systems in Santa Clarita's ZIP codes report to our monitoring, six of them for more than five years. When one panel on a SolarEdge system stopped producing in June 2022, we traced it to a failed optimizer and replaced it under the manufacturer's warranty; when the inverter failed in August 2023, the warranty replacement was fitted twelve days later and registered in the monitoring.
Solar repair: how we do it →More than two thirds of the Santa Clarita roofs we install on are tile, in profiles from flat concrete to red clay S-tile, and the city straddles two of California's building climate zones, which set the cool-roof requirement on a re-roof (tile roofs under solar in Santa Clarita). The roof on the whole-home backup house was three layers of shingle deep; we stripped all of it, about thirty squares, on a separate re-roof permit before the modules went up, and the household reported the new roof dry through its first winter rain.
Roofing in Santa Clarita →One licensed contractor covers solar, battery, roofing and electrical, so the job does not get handed between companies.
Based in Northridge, we know SCE permitting and net metering inside out.
40+ installs in Santa Clarita and work across Southern California since 2017.
Cali Energy · 19201 Parthenia St, Unit E, Northridge, CA 91324 · CSLB #1032379 (B, C-10, C-39)
