Solar Companies in Camarillo, CA: Who Installed the Most Systems in 2025

Installers who connected the most home solar systems in Camarillo in 2025

Counts from utility records, not a ranking or endorsement. Check each license's status and complaint history on the CSLB's Check a License page (checked Sept. 24, 2026).

Source: California Distributed Generation Statistics (CPUC), Interconnected Project Sites data set, data through May 31, 2026 (checked Sept. 24, 2026).

Home solar in Camarillo by the numbers

SCE approved 403 home solar systems in Camarillo in 2025, from 70 installers; the top three were named on 46% of them. The busiest year since 2021 was 2023, with 637 (2025: -37%). Another 205 were approved from January through May 2026.

2025 mix: 42% leased or on a power purchase agreement, 58% owned by the household; 86% with a battery; median size 6.15 kW DC. Ventura County: 44% leased or PPA, 89% with a battery, median 6.8 kW.

Hiring a solar company in Camarillo

Camarillo's expedited solar review is narrow: it covers roof-mounted systems of 10 kW AC or less, on a home or accessory structure, with no battery and a service panel bus rated 225 amps or less. A solar installation company that adds a battery or a larger array will be on the standard review. Clean Power Alliance supplies Camarillo's generation at its 100% Green default, with SCE delivering. Compare three written bids on those terms.

Start with your Camarillo electricity bill

If your SCE bill includes Clean Power Alliance generation, compare both portions. CPA’s solar guidance describes circumstances where generation and delivery enrollment can differ for an existing system. Have the bidder check the account and interconnection history instead of assuming one label applies to everything.

What Camarillo's expedited checklist allows

Camarillo's solar eligibility checklist sets the line between a fast review and a standard one. To qualify, the system must be 10 kW AC (CEC rating) or less, utility-interactive with no battery storage, roof-mounted on a one- or two-family dwelling or accessory structure, and no taller than the legal building height. Electrically, it must tie into a single-phase service panel with a bus bar rated 225 amps or less, use no more than two central inverters, and keep to four strings per MPPT input where the inverter has source-circuit fusing (two where it does not). The plans must show clear fire access pathways, the fire classification of the system and all required labels.

Any item answered no means a design revision or the standard, non-expedited review. That makes the checklist a practical way to compare two Camarillo bids: if one design stays inside it and another adds a battery or a larger inverter setup, the second will take longer to permit, and that time belongs in the schedule you are promised.

Clean Power Alliance on a Camarillo solar bill

Camarillo has been a Clean Power Alliance community since 2019, with 100% Green as its default option. CPA applies generation charges and credits on its side of the SCE bill and SCE handles the delivery side. Systems SCE approved on or before August 31, 2023 stay on net energy metering; later ones are on the Solar Billing Plan, which CPA trues up every April.

At true-up CPA pays surplus at rates it describes as 10% higher than SCE's, mailing a check for credits over $100. Existing-system owners replacing a roof should keep that enrollment in mind: ask any bidder who proposes new equipment whether the change affects the system's current billing plan before you sign.

What a Camarillo quote needs to explain

A comparison to ask for

For a house with existing solar and a roof replacement ahead, request a removal/reinstallation quote alongside a replacement-system quote. Both should name the roof contractor, wiring work and reconnection steps. Then compare whether the proposed equipment change affects the CPA and SCE billing arrangements already in place.

Verify the company behind the Camarillo quote

Match the business name and license number on each Camarillo proposal to the CSLB record, then use our contractor verification steps, the quote comparison guide and the PPA, loan, lease and cash comparison.

Permit fees and the filing route are on the Camarillo solar cost and permit page.

Camarillo solar quote questions