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Solar & Battery Installation in Cerritos, CA
Cerritos spent its first decade as Dairy Valley, and when the dairies sold off in the late 1960s it became one of the fastest-growing cities in California, filling out with master-planned tract neighborhoods, parks, and schools through the 1970s and 80s. That history left a flat, orderly grid of single- and two-story tract homes with broad, largely unshaded roof planes along the LA–Orange County line. Warm inland-plain summers and SCE time-of-use rates make those roofs well suited to solar paired with battery storage.
What going solar looks like in Cerritos
Cerritos homes are served by Southern California Edison (SCE), and permits run through City of Cerritos Department of Community Development — Building & Safety Division. We manage both for you. Under NEM 3.0, the smart play here is solar sized to charge a battery, so you run your home on stored solar during the expensive evening peak instead of buying power at top rates.
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- Permits handled through City of Cerritos Department of Community Development — Building & Safety Division
- Southern California Edison (SCE) interconnection & PTO managed end-to-end
- Custom, roof-first design for your home
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Solar designed around Cerritos
We design and install across Cerritos — including Shadow Park, Greenbrook, Cerritos Villas, Carmenita, Gonsalves, Heritage Park, Liberty Park, and Friendship Park.
Climate & energy use
Cerritos sits on the flat Gateway Cities plain roughly ten miles from the coast — close enough for morning marine layer, far enough inland that summer afternoons run noticeably hotter than the beach cities, so air conditioning drives most homes' summer usage. The city is fully urbanized with minimal wildfire or PSPS exposure, which makes the battery case here economic rather than emergency-driven: storing midday solar production to ride out SCE's 4–9 p.m. evening peak pricing.
Roofs & housing stock
Nearly all of Cerritos's housing went up between the late 1960s and the 1980s as the former dairy land built out into tracts, so the dominant roofs are concrete tile and composition shingle, with most original wood shake long since replaced. Concrete tile from that era often has underlayment near the end of its service life, so we evaluate it before mounting, use tile-appropriate attachments, and can coordinate a re-roof under the same permit when needed.
HOA & design review
Most Cerritos single-family tracts have no HOA, but the guard-gated Shadow Park community and condo communities like Cerritos Villas do have associations with architectural review — and the City itself maintains Residential Solar Energy System Guidelines that installations must follow. California's Solar Rights Act limits what any association can deny, and we prepare the design-review submittals where they apply.
Cerritos by the numbers
70
projects & service calls in Cerritos
That's part of the 6,373 projects & service calls OC Solar has handled across Southern California since 2016. Per our company records as of June 2026.
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10+
Years serving SoCal
Founded 2016
50+
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Manufacturer certifications
1 of 12 installers- EnphaseInstaller NetworkStorage-certified · IQ Battery
- QcellsQ.PARTNERAuthorized installer
- RECCertified Solar ProfessionalProTrust warranty program
- SolarEdgeCertified Installer
- Owens CorningRoofing Preferred Contractor
Awards & recognition
2024- Solar Power WorldTop Solar Contractor2025#203 nationally
- PanasonicTop Residential Installer of the Year2023Southern California
- EY (Ernst & Young)Entrepreneur Of The Year — Finalist2025Pacific Southwest
- Orange County Business JournalExcellence in Entrepreneurship Award2026
- HouzzBest of Houzz2022
- AngiSuper Service Award2024
#1 in California2026- Best Equipment2026
- Best Installation2026
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