Solar company serving Altadena, CA — and its rebuild

Yes. Altadena is an active Cali Energy service area. We work here regularly, in ZIP 91001 — the homes on this page are some of that work, with our photos from each, and battery storage on a number of them.

Yes, within a deadline. SCE allows a residential NEM customer affected by a declared disaster to stay on the original tariff if they notify SCE of the intent to rebuild within two years of the disaster and complete the system and file a new interconnection application within four years; the interconnection fee is waived when both are met. Counting from the January 7, 2025 start of the Eaton Fire, that is roughly January 2027 for the notice and January 2029 for the application. Confirm your own dates directly with SCE, since eligibility attaches to your account and property.

There is no honest flat citywide price. Published market data gives two bases for Los Angeles before incentives: $2.49 per watt at competitive marketplace rates and $3.5 per watt as the 2024 national median for cash purchases, putting a 6–12 kW system at roughly $15,000–$42,000. A ~13 kWh battery adds about $11,900–$16,100. The federal Section 25D credit ended December 31, 2025, so a 2026 cash or loan purchase gets no federal credit. Solar built into a full rebuild is priced with the house rather than as a retrofit.

The Solar Billing Plan, often called NEM 3.0, which replaced NEM 2.0 for new SCE customers on April 15, 2023. Exported energy is credited at an hourly avoided-cost value rather than the retail rate, which is why storing evening energy usually beats exporting it at midday — and why battery storage features on much of Cali Energy’s Altadena work.

Los Angeles County. Altadena is unincorporated, so it is not permitted by the City of Los Angeles or by Pasadena. County plan check and county inspectors handle the work, battery projects add a fire-inspection step, and the SCE interconnection runs as a separate track that must be completed before the system may operate. For fire rebuilds the county runs an expedited review track, targeting 10 business days for initial plan review and 5 business days for a resubmittal.

Generally yes for a newly built single-family home. California’s Title 24 energy code requires new single-family construction to include a solar system sized to the home’s floor area and climate zone — Altadena is Climate Zone 9. Where Chapter 7A applies to the parcel, its wildfire-resistant standards govern the roof underneath it. Confirm the exact requirement for your design with county plan check.

Yes. The CPUC’s RISE Homes program opened on April 6, 2026 with $50 million for customers of the investor-owned utilities, including SCE, who rebuild a fully electric home. It covers properties destroyed by declared natural disasters since January 1, 2017. Program terms and funding availability change, so verify current status with the CPUC before relying on it.

Yes. Battery storage features on much of our Altadena work, among it a two-unit LG RESU system and several SolarEdge-based solar-plus-storage installations. Storage projects carry extra permitting and a county fire inspection, both of which Cali Energy has already taken Altadena projects through.

Yes. Cali Energy holds California contractor license CSLB #1032379 with B (General Building), C-10 (Electrical) and C-39 (Roofing) classifications and has operated since 2017 with in-house crews. The record is public and can be verified with the CSLB.

Check four things that can be verified: an active CSLB license carrying both electrical (C-10) and roofing (C-39) classifications, since a rebuild involves both; completed work in the area, with photos; whether crews are in-house or subcontracted; and whether the contractor has actually taken projects through Los Angeles County permitting and fire inspection rather than city permitting elsewhere. Cali Energy’s answers: CSLB #1032379 (B, C-10, C-39); Altadena homes with our photos; in-house crews; county fire inspections behind us.

Cali Energy serves Altadena from its office at 19201 Parthenia Street Unit E, Northridge, CA 91324. The company does not claim an Altadena storefront; the local presence shown here is completed work and active service coverage.