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As a retired educator, Larry became concerned about the sustainability of fossil fuels and developed a passion for renewable energy. While serving as a Seminarian for The Green Mechanical Counsel in Phoenix Arizona, he realized that the Sun had enough energy to sustain life on Earth forever. He is dedicated to assisting homeowners harness and store that wonderful energy for themselves and their community.
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The same house, the same weather, two very different evenings.
NEM 3.0 cut the credit value of solar exported back to the grid by roughly 75 percent compared with the old net metering rules. That makes a solar-only system pay back far more slowly than it did before 2023. Pairing panels with a battery lets you store midday production and use it during the expensive 4–9pm window instead of selling it cheap.
A virtual power plant is a fleet of home batteries that a coordinator can discharge together during grid emergencies. Each Ventura County FlexPlan home keeps a reserve for itself and shares only surplus capacity during declared events. Homeowners who opt in receive event compensation while helping keep regional gas peaker plants offline.
SCE de-energizes circuits in high fire risk areas during Santa Ana wind events, which repeatedly hits the hillside and canyon neighborhoods of Simi Valley, Thousand Oaks, Ventura, and Moorpark. Outages can run from several hours to multiple days with limited warning. A properly sized battery backs up refrigeration, well pumps, medical devices, internet, and lighting for the duration.
Most homes here land between 10 and 20 kilowatt-hours of usable storage depending on air conditioning load and whether you charge an EV. Coastal Oxnard and Ventura homes typically need less because of milder evenings. Inland Simi Valley and Thousand Oaks homes with summer AC usually size toward the higher end.
Yes — Clean Power Alliance supplies the electricity while SCE still owns the poles, wires, and meter. Your time-of-use rate structure and PSPS exposure work the same way either side of that split. FlexPlan eligibility is based on your roof, panel, and circuit, not on who prints the supply line of your bill.
Your system always holds a homeowner-set backup reserve that the network cannot touch. Shared discharge only draws from capacity above that reserve. If your battery is below reserve, your home is simply skipped for that event with no penalty.
Most Ventura County homeowners install between 10 and 20 kilowatt-hours of usable storage, and pricing scales with that capacity plus panel and electrical work. Federal and California incentive programs can offset a meaningful share of the installed cost for qualifying homes. A free consultation reviews your actual SCE bill and tells you what your home is eligible for before any numbers are quoted.
Yes — most existing arrays can be retrofitted with AC-coupled storage without replacing your panels. The main variables are your main panel capacity, inverter age, and where a battery can be mounted safely. Retrofits are common in Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, and Newbury Park where older systems were installed under the original net metering rules.
Whole-home backup requires a battery sized to your critical loads plus an automatic transfer switch tied into your main panel. Coastal Ventura homes often need less capacity than inland Ojai and canyon properties with well pumps and air conditioning. The eligibility check identifies which loads your home can realistically carry through a multi-day outage.
Yes — consultations are free and run about 45 minutes, at your home or by phone with one of our experts. We serve Oxnard, Camarillo, Moorpark, Port Hueneme, and Santa Paula along with the rest of Ventura County. There is no credit check and no obligation to move forward.
Five short questions, then book a time with our Energy Expert to look over your current bill and see what your home is eligible for.
Learn how the SGIP rebate and Equity Resiliency budget can lower your home battery cost.
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