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Solar & Battery Installation in Redondo Beach, CA
Redondo Beach is the largest of the South Bay's three beach cities, running from the townhome grids of North Redondo near the Space Park aerospace campus down to the pier, King Harbor, and the lettered Avenues of South Redondo. The housing mix is unusually varied for a beach city — early-1900s cottages and Spanish-style homes near the water, mid-century ranches on the flats, and the two- and three-on-a-lot townhomes that replaced much of North Redondo's post-war stock. The mild marine climate keeps daytime loads modest here, but evening usage still lands squarely in SCE's highest time-of-use pricing hours, which is what makes solar-plus-battery design pencil out.
What going solar looks like in Redondo Beach
Redondo Beach homes are served by Southern California Edison (SCE), and permits run through City of Redondo Beach Community Development Department — 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 Redondo Beach Community Development Department — 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 Redondo Beach
We design and install across Redondo Beach — including Golden Hills, El Nido, TRW Tract, Villas North, Villas South, The Avenues, Riviera Village, and Brookside Village.
Climate & energy use
Sitting directly on Santa Monica Bay, Redondo Beach lives under the marine layer and a steady onshore breeze, so summers stay mild and air-conditioning loads are light compared with inland Los Angeles County. The trade-off is that evening loads — cooking, EV charging, heat-pump water heating — hit after solar production falls off, right in SCE's peak time-of-use window, which is why battery storage still earns its keep in a cool beach climate. Salt air this close to the ocean also makes corrosion-resistant racking, fasteners, and flashing details part of a durable install.
Roofs & housing stock
A large share of Redondo Beach's housing dates to the 1940s through 1960s, so composition shingle on mid-century ranches and bungalows is the most common roof citywide, alongside early-1900s beach cottages and some clay-tile Spanish-style homes in South Redondo. In North Redondo, Villas North and Villas South are dominated by the two- and three-on-a-lot townhomes that replaced older bungalows and duplexes — low-slope or flat roof sections and smaller, segmented roof planes shape the panel layout there — while Golden Hills is known for its tall-and-skinny small-lot single-family homes with compact roof footprints. We match the attachment and flashing method to each material — and spec coastal-rated hardware — rather than treating every roof the same.
HOA & design review
Most of Redondo Beach's single-family streets have no HOA, but many of the city's townhome and condo communities do carry associations with architectural review — from North Redondo townhome developments to larger complexes like South Redondo's 385-unit Brookside Village; California's Solar Rights Act limits how far any of them can restrict a rooftop system, and we prepare the approval submittals when one applies.
Redondo Beach by the numbers
34
projects & service calls in Redondo Beach
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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1 of 12 installers- EnphaseInstaller NetworkStorage-certified · IQ Battery
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- 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
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