What Los Angeles homeowners pay for power, what a roof here produces against it, and $0-down options if you qualify.
Los Angeles sits in Los Angeles County and is served by LADWP, at about municipal rate all-in — supply plus delivery plus riders, not the supply rate on its own. That is the number solar has to beat.
ZIP codes we serve here: 90001, 90019, 90026, 90045, 90066, 91331. If your ZIP is not listed it does not mean we cannot help — enter it above and it will tell you.
California moved new solar customers onto the Net Billing Tariff (NEM 3.0) in April 2023, and the NEM 2.0 grandfathering window closed permanently on April 15, 2026. Exported power now earns an avoided-cost rate of roughly 5 to 8¢ per kWh rather than the ~30¢ it earned before — a reduction of about 75%. Meanwhile imported power still costs 30 to 55¢ at peak. That gap is why a battery is no longer optional in California: the value is in using your own production during the 4pm–9pm peak rather than exporting it.
Source: California Public Utilities Commission filings, utility tariffs, CAISO market data and U.S. Energy Information Administration figures, August 2026.
Los Angeles averages 5.6 peak sun hours a day. A well-oriented kilowatt of panels produces roughly 1,635 kilowatt-hours a year here. A typical 9 kW system produces around 14,715 kWh annually.
Those are pre-shading numbers. Trees, roof pitch and orientation move them, which is why an installer looks at your specific roof rather than quoting from a city average.
The 30% federal Residential Clean Energy Credit under Section 25D ended for systems purchased after December 31, 2025. If you buy with cash or a loan in 2026, you cannot claim it. Any site still advertising a 30% federal credit for a homeowner purchase is running outdated information.
What remains is Section 48E, the commercial investment credit. It applies to third-party-owned systems — leases and power purchase agreements — where the system owner claims it rather than the homeowner. That is precisely what makes $0-down possible.
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Most of this area is served by that utility, but service territories do not follow city lines. Your bill names your utility at the top. If it does not match, enter your ZIP and we will match you to installers in your actual territory.
Under a lease or power purchase agreement, yes — the credit belongs to the system owner, which is what makes $0 down possible. For an outright purchase the math changed in 2026.
A lease or PPA transfers to the buyer at the same rate. An owned system simply conveys with the property.
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