Where Current Energy works
Southern California, from an office in Sylmar. Which matters more than it sounds — because the utility serving your address decides what your solar is actually worth, and there are four different answers within twenty miles of us.
Current Energy is based at 15823 Monte St, Suite 101, Sylmar, CA 91342 and serves Southern California — Los Angeles County including the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, plus Ventura, Orange and San Bernardino counties. Commercial solar development work extends further across the state. The company works across LADWP, Southern California Edison, SDG&E and municipal utility territories including Burbank Water and Power and Glendale Water and Power, each of which has its own net-metering and interconnection rules. CSLB #1074466. (888) 899-9484.
Sylmar
Sylmar, Mission Hills, Granada Hills, Lake View Terrace, Pacoima and surrounding areas. Utility: LADWP.
Local pageSan Fernando Valley
Sylmar, Granada Hills, Northridge, Van Nuys, Sherman Oaks and surrounding areas. Utility: LADWP, with SCE outside city limits.
Local pageLos Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles, Mid-City, Hollywood, Silver Lake, Westwood and surrounding areas. Utility: LADWP.
Local pageSanta Clarita
Santa Clarita, Valencia, Saugus, Newhall, Canyon Country and surrounding areas. Utility: Southern California Edison (NEM 3.0).
Local pageBurbank & Glendale
Burbank, Glendale, Toluca Lake-adjacent, Montrose, La Crescenta and surrounding areas. Utility: Burbank Water and Power / Glendale Water and Power.
Local pageVentura County
Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Camarillo, Oxnard, Ventura and surrounding areas. Utility: Southern California Edison (NEM 3.0).
Local pageOrange County
Anaheim-adjacent, Irvine, Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach and surrounding areas. Utility: SCE, with SDG&E to the south.
Local pageWhy the utility matters
Four utilities, four sets of rules, one metro area.
This is the most under-explained thing in Southern California solar. Advice that is completely correct for a Southern California Edison customer can be wrong for someone a few streets away on LADWP.
Investor-owned utilities — SCE, PG&E and SDG&E — are regulated by the CPUC and their new solar customers are on the Net Billing Tariff, NEM 3.0, where exported energy earns roughly four to eight cents per kilowatt-hour. Municipal utilities such as LADWP, Burbank Water and Power, Glendale Water and Power and Pasadena Water and Power set their own terms, generally more favourable, and change them independently.
We work across all of them. Read the NEM 3.0 explainer for the detail, or just tell us your address.
| Utility | Type | New solar customers on |
|---|---|---|
| LADWP | Municipal | LADWP’s own net metering program |
| Southern California Edison | Investor-owned | Net Billing Tariff (NEM 3.0) |
| SDG&E | Investor-owned | Net Billing Tariff (NEM 3.0) |
| Burbank Water and Power | Municipal | Its own program |
| Glendale Water and Power | Municipal | Its own program |
| Pasadena Water and Power | Municipal | Its own program |
Not sure which of these you are in?
Tell us the address. We will tell you the utility, what that means for your export credits, and whether it changes what we would recommend.