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

Installers who connected the most home solar systems in Long Beach 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 Long Beach by the numbers

SCE approved 852 home solar systems in Long Beach in 2025, from 136 installers; the top three were named on 43% of them. The busiest year since 2021 was 2023, with 1,648 (2025: -48%). Another 392 were approved from January through May 2026.

2025 mix: 50% leased or on a power purchase agreement, 50% owned by the household; 84% 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 Long Beach

Long Beach publishes its solar permit price: an express permit for a flush-mounted rooftop system of 38.4 kW or less costs $386.62 without storage and $447.45 with a battery, inspections included, if the design passes the City's Express Checklist. SCE supplies and delivers Long Beach's power and must approve the interconnection. Compare at least three written bids that show the same permit fee and model your own SCE bill.

Start with your Long Beach electricity bill

The City's own solar bulletin names Southern California Edison as the utility that provides electrical power in Long Beach, and the Energy Commission's map shows no community choice provider over the city, so SCE supplies both generation and delivery. SCE must approve the interconnection before a system may run, a step separate from the City's permit. A new system goes on SCE's Solar Billing Plan, and the fixed Base Services Charge stays on the bill.

Long Beach's express solar permit

Information Bulletin IB-023, revised in July 2024, is the City's guide to its streamlined solar permit. It covers flush-mounted systems of 38.4 kW or less on the roofs of one- and two-family homes, apartment buildings and nonresidential buildings. For a home, the applicant completes the Community Development Permit application and FORM-016, the Express Checklist for residential rooftop solar, and every item must be answered Yes. The submittal adds electrical plans, a site diagram and a roof plan showing access points, clear pathways, the system's fire classification and required labels.

A project that passes gets an express electrical permit with no separate planning, electrical, building or fire review. Any No on the checklist sends that part of the project to review, with added fees. Planning review is triggered when the property is in a historic district or is a qualified historical building, in which case a Planning Permit or Certificate of Appropriateness is also needed. Once the permit is issued, installation can start and the inspections can be scheduled when the applicant is ready.

Inspection day and SCE's approval

At inspection, the checklist, construction documents and job card must be on site, every part of the installation must be accessible, and any ladder the inspector needs must meet OSHA requirements and be set up safely. Approval comes with the final inspection. Ask your installer who will be there to meet the inspector.

The City's approval is not the last step. IB-023 tells applicants to contact SCE at the start of planning, because SCE's interconnection approval is a separate process and the system may not operate until it is granted. After that, SCE's Solar Billing Plan credits exports with Energy Export Credits and settles the account once a year, in the month the system started service.

What a Long Beach quote needs to explain

A comparison to ask for

Two Long Beach bids for the same roof should quote the same City permit fee: $386.62 without a battery or $447.45 with one, if the design passes the Express Checklist. If a bid carries a larger permit line, ask which checklist item it expects to fail, since that triggers planning, electrical, building or fire review and extra fees.

Verify the company behind the Long Beach quote

Match the business name and license number on each Long Beach 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 Long Beach solar cost and permit page.

Long Beach solar quote questions