Solar Companies in Moreno Valley, CA: Installer Counts and License Checks

Installers who connected the most home solar systems on SCE-served Moreno Valley addresses 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). These are SCE customers whose service address the utility lists under Moreno Valley; Moreno Valley Utility customers are not in the data. The CEC's utility map puts Moreno Valley Utility on about 58% of city land on the CEC map, with SCE on the rest.

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

Home solar on SCE-served Moreno Valley addresses by the numbers

SCE approved 720 home solar systems at SCE-served addresses listed as Moreno Valley in 2025, from 87 installers; the top three were named on 60% of them. The busiest year since 2021 was 2023, with 1,649 (2025: -56%). Another 292 were approved from January through May 2026.

2025 mix: 74% leased or on a power purchase agreement, 26% owned by the household; 87% with a battery; median size 7.2 kW DC.

Hiring a solar company in Moreno Valley

Solar companies in Moreno Valley have to design for one of two utilities. Moreno Valley Utility, the City's own, serves about three-fifths of the city's area and requires new solar or battery customers to take its Rate B time-of-use rate, caps systems at your past year's use and charges a $75 review fee; SCE serves the rest under its Solar Billing Plan. All permits go through SimpliCITY. Compare at least three written bids.

Solar on Moreno Valley Utility

The City Council approved MVU's Residential Rate B time-of-use rate for all residential solar customers effective December 15, 2020. It is optional for other homes but required for customers who install solar, a battery or both; a customer who produces more than it uses in a billing period still receives a monetary credit. Existing solar customers were grandfathered for 15 years on the NEM and NEM2 rates, but expanding a system by 10% or more, or adding a battery, moves the account to Rate B.

MVU takes residential interconnections only through its Solar & Storage Application, with a customer-signed Solar Consumer Protection Guide and a $75 non-refundable review fee. It may require a utility-provided energy audit for homes more than five years old, and it does not allow oversized systems: a system cannot exceed one year of usage history, and without that history MVU applies its own sizing formula. Components must be new and approved by MVU, and MVU says panels and inverters should appear on the Energy Commission's certified lists.

Permits and SCE addresses in Moreno Valley

All building permits go through SimpliCITY. A solar permit covers the array, the inverter and batteries included with the solar; a separate electrical permit is required for a panel upgrade or subpanel, or when a battery is installed on its own or added to an existing system. The City reported SolarAPP+ as its automated platform, and the SolarAPP+ program lists it as accepting storage but not panel upgrades or breaker derates. Its 2023 report counted 548 residential solar permits, about 61% with storage and 36% issued online.

About two-fifths of the city is SCE territory on the Energy Commission's map. There, SCE's Solar Billing Plan applies: exports earn hourly credits, locked for nine years, with about $0.04 per kWh more for eligible customers who enroll before 2028, and the True-Up comes in the month the system started.

What a Moreno Valley quote needs to explain

A comparison to ask for

For an MVU address, ask each bidder to size the system to your last year of use, since MVU does not allow oversized systems, and to model Rate B time-of-use. For an SCE address, the Solar Billing Plan applies. A bidder quoting the same savings for both has not read your bill.

Verify the company behind the Moreno Valley quote

Match the business name and license number on each Moreno Valley 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 Moreno Valley rates and bills page.

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