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Solar Panel Installation - Burbank is a different animal than solar in the rest of LA County, and most people don’t find that out until the paperwork stalls. Burbank Water and Power runs its own net metering program with its own caps, its own interconnection queue, and its own export rates. A quote built on Southern California Edison assumptions won’t survive contact with BWP’s application desk. Gus Petrakis has been navigating that specific maze long enough that he checks BWP’s available NEM capacity before he quotes you a system, because a cheap price on a system that BWP won’t approve is not a cheap system. Call (877) 550-6892 and we’ll tell you straight what your roof, your panel, and BWP will actually support.
What happens when you call
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A real person answersNo phone trees - you reach a local pro.
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You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched.
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A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, dispatched right away.
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You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
Why Burbank Homeowners Choose Gus’s Solar
Burbank is a town of people who read the fine print. Studio employees, aerospace engineers, city workers, retirees who bought their ranch house in 1978 and have watched every contractor trend come and go. What they tend to want, after the door-knockers leave, is a person whose name they can verify and whose phone they can call. Gus Petrakis publishes his address, his license number, and his cell phone. When something goes wrong with a system he installed, he is the one who answers. That matters in neighborhoods like Magnolia Park and the Verdugo foothills above Glenoaks, where word travels fast and a bad install gets talked about at the Tuesday farmers market.
We’ve handled solar projects on the 91505 flats near Johnny Carson Park, on the hillside streets of 91507 where the roofs pitch steeper and the crews rope in, and on the post-war bungalows off Burbank Boulevard where 100-amp panels are so common we can almost predict them from the curb. Homeowners here don’t want a seminar. They want a name, a number, and a real number for what it costs. That’s what we give them, in writing, with the 90-Day Done Right Promise attached: if it’s not done right, Gus makes it right, and one call brings him back.
Solar Services We Offer in Burbank
Solar Panel Installation
We design and install rooftop solar sized to your actual BWP bill, not a national average. Before we quote anything, we look at your usage history, your roof orientation, and BWP’s current NEM enrollment status.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Installation in Burbank.
Solar Battery Storage & Backup
Burbank’s triple-digit summer days test the grid hard, and a battery means the AC keeps running when the neighborhood goes dark. We install Burbank Solar Battery Storage & Backup with FranklinWH, Tesla, and Enphase batteries, sized to your actual critical loads.
Learn more about our Solar Battery Storage & Backup in Burbank.
Solar Panel Cleaning
Valley dust and the occasional ash from fire season settle on panels faster than most owners expect, and a dirty array can lose 15 to 20 percent of its output. Burbank Solar Panel Cleaning uses soft-bristle brushes and deionized water, no pressure washers.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Cleaning in Burbank.
EV Charger Installation
Burbank has more EVs per mile than almost anywhere in the Valley, and a Level 2 charger on a 1940s panel often needs a service upgrade first. Gus’s crew handles the load calculation, the permit, and the EV Charger Installation - Burbank so the charger doesn’t trip the main breaker.
Learn more about our EV Charger Installation in Burbank when you call (877) 550-6892.
Solar Panel Maintenance & Monitoring
We monitor installed systems and call the owner when production drops, rather than waiting for the power bill to deliver the bad news. If a panel or inverter underperforms in Burbank, we catch it and come out under warranty.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Maintenance & Monitoring in Burbank when you call (877) 550-6892.
Solar Panel Repair
Hail, squirrels, or a bad microinverter, if it stops producing, we fix it. And we honor the $40 off any repair over $200 for Burbank customers, plus a 10% senior and veteran discount that never expires.
Learn more about our Solar Panel Repair in Burbank when you call (877) 550-6892.
Commercial Solar Installation
Burbank warehouses, studios, and retail rooftops run on BWP’s commercial rate schedules, which have their own demand charges and NEM rules. We model the year-25 output, not the brochure number, before we propose anything.
Learn more about our Commercial Solar Installation in Burbank when you call (877) 550-6892.
Neighborhoods We Serve in Burbank
We work all across Burbank, from the flats to the hills. Our crews are local, so a typical response time inside Burbank is same-day for a service call, usually within a few hours.
- Magnolia Park
- Rancho Equestrian
- Hillside District (91507)
- Toluca Lake-adjacent Burbank
- Northwest District (91505)
Why Burbank’s Climate & Housing Affect Solar
Sitting in the eastern San Fernando Valley, Burbank regularly runs 10 to 15 degrees hotter than the coast, and those triple-digit heat events send AC loads through the roof. That’s actually good news for solar payback: a system here offsets more expensive summer kilowatt-hours than the same array would in Santa Monica. But the same heat causes thermal derating, a measurable drop in panel efficiency on the hottest production days. A good Burbank design accounts for that, using panels like REC or Qcells that hold efficiency better in high heat, and it models that tradeoff explicitly. We don’t hide the hot-day numbers.
The housing stock shapes the work too. Burbank’s residential streets are dominated by post-WWII ranch homes and 1940s and 1950s bungalows, many still running original 100-amp electrical panels. Before solar can even be permitted, those panels often need a service upgrade. Low-slope composition shingle roofs are common and usually straightforward for racking, but age and deferred maintenance mean we’re having re-roofing conversations before install on roughly a third of the jobs we quote in Burbank. That’s not a sales tactic; it’s what we see when we climb up there.
Pricing for Solar in Burbank
Honest Burbank numbers, based on what we actually quote, not national averages.
- Typical 6 kW residential installation: $16,000 to $22,000 before incentives
- 10 kW system (larger ranch or EV-heavy home): $26,000 to $34,000 before incentives
- Battery add-on (FranklinWH or Tesla Powerwall): $12,000 to $18,000 installed
- Panel cleaning: $150 to $300 depending on roof height and array size
- EV charger install (Level 2): $800 to $2,500, more if a panel upgrade is needed
- Repair service call: $40 off any repair over $200, plus the 10% senior and veteran discount
Bring us a bill and we’ll bring you the math. The price we quote is the price we charge. Take two weeks to think about it; the number won’t change.
Service Area - Cities Near Burbank
We also serve homeowners in Universal City, North Hollywood, Glendale, and Studio City. A quick note: those neighboring communities fall under Southern California Edison territory, so their solar math runs entirely differently than Burbank’s BWP process. Call us and we’ll steer you right for whichever utility serves your block.
Serving Burbank, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
We’re based in the Burbank area and know this community well. Use the map below to see our service coverage - if you’re nearby, we can almost certainly help.
FAQs About Solar in Burbank
Yes, but BWP runs its own net metering program with a finite enrollment cap, and it is separate from Southern California Edison. Before you sign any solar contract in Burbank, the installer should verify BWP’s current NEM capacity; if they skip that step, you could be left with an approved system and no interconnection slot. Call (877) 550-6892 and we’ll check BWP’s status before we quote a single panel.
Most Burbank residential installs we quote land between $16,000 and $34,000 before incentives, depending on system size, roof condition, and whether a panel upgrade is needed. The BWP net metering rates and your actual usage drive the payback math. Call (877) 550-6892 for a free estimate built off your real BWP bill.
Quite often, yes. Many of Burbank’s ranch homes and bungalows still run on original 100-amp panels, and BWP typically requires a 200-amp service upgrade before it will approve a solar interconnection. We’ll tell you at the first site visit whether you need one, and what it adds to the total.
Installation is never same-day; permitting and BWP interconnection require lead time. But for service and repair calls, our crews typically respond same-day inside Burbank. If your system is down, call (877) 550-6892 and we’ll get someone there.
If the panels are under 10 years old and the failure is isolated, a repair usually makes sense; we diagnose the exact fault before recommending anything. For older arrays with degraded output, replacement with newer panels like Panasonic or SunPower often pencils out better on a year-25 basis. Call (877) 550-6892 and we’ll give you a straight read, not a sales pitch.
Get an Honest Burbank Solar Quote
If a salesman needs an answer tonight, the answer is no. If you want a real quote from a guy whose name is on the truck, call Gus’s Solar at (877) 550-6892. We’ll work up numbers from your actual BWP bill, tell you if NEM capacity is available, and give you two weeks to think about it. Local roots. On time. Community first. Accountable. Loyal. That’s how we’ve done it since 2011, and it’s how we do it in Burbank today. Free estimates, no pressure, and a live person answers the phone 24/7.
Written by Gus Petrakis, Owner at Gus’s Solar, serving Burbank and the surrounding communities.
What happens when you call
- 1A real person answersNo phone trees - talk to a local solar pro.
- 2You get an upfront price rangeHonest numbers before anyone is dispatched. No surprises.
- 3A background-checked tech heads outLicensed & insured, typically within 1-hour.
- 4You approve before work beginsNothing starts until you say go.
What Burbank Customers Say
"He flashed every roof penetration properly and showed me the flashing before it went down. Three roof seasons on and not a drop anywhere."
- Philomena Achara"Panel level monitoring so I can see each one, proper stainless clips under the array rather than zip ties, and he walked me under it with a torch to show me before he signed off."
- Cassius Delacroix"Gus's own crew did the install. Not a subcontractor who had never met him, which is what the big outfit quoted me and could not tell me who would actually be on my roof."
- Aurelia Santibanez