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

Installers who connected the most home solar systems in Lakewood 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 Lakewood by the numbers

SCE approved 231 home solar systems in Lakewood in 2025, from 72 installers; the top three were named on 42% of them. The busiest year since 2021 was 2023, with 548 (2025: -58%). Another 88 were approved from January through May 2026.

2025 mix: 59% leased or on a power purchase agreement, 41% owned by the household; 88% with a battery; median size 6.56 kW DC. Los Angeles County: 47% leased or PPA, 79% with a battery, median 6.56 kW.

Hiring a solar company in Lakewood

Lakewood permits residential rooftop solar through SolarAPP+: the contractor submits the design online, gets an approval ID and checklist, pays the remaining fees and prints the permit, and SolarAPP+'s fee covers up to three revisions. SCE supplies and delivers Lakewood's electricity, and new systems go on SCE's Solar Billing Plan. Compare at least three written bids built on your own twelve months of SCE bills.

Lakewood's SolarAPP+ steps

Lakewood's Building and Safety Division lists five steps. The contractor submits the design through SolarAPP+, registering with its contractor license information. When the design is approved, SolarAPP+ issues a checklist and a SolarAPP+ ID. The contractor then pays the remaining City fees when prompted and prints the permit. SolarAPP+ charges its own processing fee for the plan review, and that initial fee covers up to three revisions.

Inspections are requested through the Building and Safety Division's inspection line at 562-866-9771, extension 2350, or by the inspection-request email address on the City's page. Because the platform is built for standard roof-mounted retrofits, a ground mount or an unusual roof structure may need a different path; ask the bidder to confirm eligibility against SolarAPP+'s requirements before quoting a start date.

Reading an SCE proposal in Lakewood

Since November 2025, SCE bills have carried a Base Services Charge of $24.15 a month for customers not on CARE or FERA, $12.08 on FERA and $6.00 on CARE. It pays for the grid rather than the energy you use, so solar does not shrink it. Any savings figure in a Lakewood proposal should come off the part of the bill that solar can actually reduce.

Under SCE's Solar Billing Plan, energy sent to the grid earns Energy Export Credits whose value changes with the hour, and SCE settles the account once a year in the month the system began service. Surplus left after that settlement is paid at SCE's Net Surplus Compensation Rate, which SCE puts at about two cents per kWh. SCE also says that storing your own energy for expensive hours is now worth more than exporting it, which is why a battery quote deserves its own line.

What a Lakewood quote needs to explain

A comparison to ask for

Ask each Lakewood bidder for its SolarAPP+ approval plan before you compare prices, and whether the design is a standard roof-mounted retrofit that SolarAPP+ can check. A bid that needs changes after approval should say whether they fall within the three revisions SolarAPP+'s fee covers, and who books the City inspection.

Verify the company behind the Lakewood quote

Match the business name and license number on each Lakewood proposal to the CSLB record, then use our contractor verification steps, the quote comparison guide and the PPA, loan, lease and cash comparison. What you pay the utility today is on the Lakewood rates and bills page.

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

Lakewood solar quote questions