ALWAYS ELECTRICAL
An electrician metering a breaker inside an open residential load center, the green equipment grounds gathered on the ground bar.

C-10 Electrical · San Diego

An electrical company that fixes what others installed.

25+ years in San Diego electrical, 21 of them servicing solar. Troubleshooting, diagnostics, and the systems that come next — storage, electrification, smart home, EV. If your installer is gone, we are who you call.

See a planning range (619) 415-5514
  • Licensed C-10 electrical contractor
  • 25+ years electrical · 21 in solar service
  • Locally owned — licensed since 2010
  • You talk to the electrician, not a call center

What we do

Service first. Then everything after it.

A solar technician kneeling on a tile roof, probing a module junction box with a clamp meter while a second technician checks the string.

Solar Repairs

21 years servicing solar, not just selling it. Production down, a string dark, an inverter faulting — we work on systems regardless of who installed them.

  • Inverter, optimiser, and string faults traced to the cause
  • Monitoring recovered and re-registered
  • Written findings before anyone touches a panel
Two technicians lifting a solar panel off its mounting rails on a tile roof, with removed panels staged upright in a padded rack beside them.

Solar Removal & Resets

Our specialty. Your array comes off cleanly, your roofer works a clear deck, and we put it back and re-commission it — we show you the production numbers.

  • Full electrical detach and reconnect
  • Array reinstalled and re-commissioned on the same racking
  • We coordinate directly with your roofing contractor
An electrician in plain black work clothes testing a residential service panel with a digital multimeter, the dead-front off and the green grounding conductors visible on the ground bar.

Electrical Repairs

Circuits that trip, outlets that die, work someone else left half-finished. We find the cause, fix it, and leave it to code.

  • Failed circuits, outlets, switches, and fixtures
  • Corrections to other contractors' work
  • Panels, subpanels, and dedicated circuits
A veteran technician metering the conductors inside a sun-faded, weathered string inverter mounted on a stucco wall.

Troubleshooting

The thing we are actually best at. Intermittent faults, nuisance trips, and the systems nobody else will take the call on.

  • Diagnostics on circuits that trip, hum, or drop out
  • Orphaned systems — your installer is gone, we adopt it
  • You get the diagnosis in plain language, not a sales pitch
Two installers seen from behind on a tile roof, lowering a new solar module onto freshly mounted aluminium rails.

New Solar

New grid-tied PV, designed around what your bill actually shows — not a generic system size.

  • System sized from your real 12-month usage
  • Permitting and utility interconnection handled
  • Works with your existing panel, or we upgrade it
Gloved hands landing conductors in a new residential load center, the green equipment grounds gathered on the ground bar.

New Electrical

The electrical scope for custom homes, ADUs, remodels and small commercial tenant improvements. Your builder builds; we do the electrical.

  • Service and panel layout from the plan set
  • Rough-in, trim, and inspection
  • Coordinated with your general contractor's schedule
Two wall-mounted home batteries, an inverter and a backup gateway installed on a clean garage wall with tidy conduit runs.

Battery Energy Storage

Store what you make and use it when it costs the most. Sized to your load profile, not to a brochure.

  • Sized from real usage and outage tolerance
  • Retrofit onto existing solar, or new together
  • Whole-home or essential-loads backup
A San Diego home lit from within at dusk while the houses along the street behind it sit dark.

Battery Backup Systems

When the street goes dark, your house does not. Backup gateway, transfer, and the critical-loads panel behind it.

  • Backup gateway and automatic transfer
  • Critical-loads subpanel built and labelled
  • Tested under a real outage before we leave
A gloved hand plugging a level 2 charger into an electric car in a garage, the charger fed by a neat conduit run to a subpanel.

EV Charging Stations

Level 2 home charging installed to code, including the panel work most quotes leave out.

  • Load calculation before we quote, not after
  • Panel upgrade handled in-house if you need one
  • Clean conduit runs — garage, driveway, or carport
A hand reaching to a wall-mounted smart home control panel beside a bank of modern rocker switches.

Smart Home Integrations

Lighting, controls, energy monitoring and load management wired to work — not a pile of apps that stop talking to each other.

  • Smart panels and circuit-level monitoring
  • Lighting control and switching
  • Load management so a panel upgrade is not always the answer
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Bid on a Project

Send us the plans. You get a real electrical bid with the scope written out, not a number with no work behind it.

  • Plan-and-spec takeoff on the electrical scope
  • Scope written line by line so you can compare bids
  • Builders, GCs, property managers, and homeowners

Service rates

What the common jobs actually cost.

Flat rates, published. These are prices, not estimates — what they cover and what they do not is written next to each one, because a flat rate with fuzzy scope is how a service call turns into an argument.

$450

Diagnostics

Covers 2 hours on site.

  • Up to two hours on site
  • Light parts — wire, conduit, boxes, fittings
  • A written finding of what is wrong

Not included

  • Inverters, microinverters and optimisers
  • Breakers and monitoring equipment
  • Anything else carrying a manufacturer warranty

$1,200

Inverter replacement

Labour only — per string inverter.

  • $350 per microinverter
  • From $2,500 for batteries, by quote

Not included

  • The equipment itself — it is often a warranty replacement

$15/panel

Panel cleaning

$200 minimum · 10 panels or more

  • Rate steps down past 20 panels, to $10/panel
  • 30 panels — $390 at $13/panel

$3,750

Service panel upgrade

Underground service. Overhead $4,900.

  • Cutting out the existing panel
  • Stucco repair to the opening
  • Permit and utility coordination

Read this before you book

  • Paint match is not guaranteed — patched stucco will not colour-match the existing wall

Warranty claims are filed at no charge. Whether the manufacturer approves a replacement is their decision, not ours — we will tell you honestly what we think they will say. Anything outside the scope above is quoted before we start it.

The Always Electrical crew standing in front of their black work van, its side carrying the green ground mark, the ALWAYS ELECTRICAL wordmark and CSLB #944166 · C-10.

The crew

You talk to the electrician who shows up.

Sole ownership, 25+ years in San Diego electrical. You get the electrician on the phone and the electrician on the roof — no call centre, no lead broker, no handing you off to someone you never met. The licence number is on the van because C-10 Electrical is the work we are licensed to do.

Equipment we work on

  • Tesla Certified Installer
  • Enphase Certified Installer
  • SolarEdge Certified Installer
  • FranklinWH Certified Installer

Re-roof resets

Replacing your roof? The panels are not the problem.

Putting off a re-roof because you have solar on it? That is our specialty. We take the array off, your roofer works a clear deck, and we put it back and re-commission it. No roofer yet? We will bring in a licensed one.

Re-roof resets are our specialty. We handle the electrical side: your array comes off cleanly, your roofer works on a clear deck, and we put it back and re-commission it. We partner with roofing companies carrying top-tier manufacturer warranties, including Owens Corning Platinum-level credentials — held by the roofer, on the roofing work.

  • We do not break your panel warranty.
  • We do not leave holes in your roof.
  • Your array comes back commissioned and producing — we show you the numbers.

How it works

Your roofing contractor hires us. We work for the roofer and are paid by the roofer, so there is one contract, one schedule and one company answering for the roof — theirs.

Getting a re-roof and your roofer has not sorted the panels? Give them our number. No roofer yet? Call us and we will bring in a licensed one. Either way you are not managing two trades across one deadline.

Reinstalling a rooftop PV system is C-10 or C-46 work — a roofing contractor cannot lawfully do it, and we hold no roofing classification. That split is the whole reason this arrangement exists.

Roofing contractors — start here Call (619) 415-5514
Two technicians lifting a solar panel off its mounting rails on a tile roof, with removed panels staged upright in a padded rack beside them.

Estimate

What do you need done?

Pick the closest thing. You'll get a planning range in a few seconds — no address, no email, no sales call to see a number.

How much do you want to cover?

Get it in writing

Tell us where you are and we'll come look.