Utility playbook

Selling solar in LADWP territory

LADWP is a municipal utility: tiered + time-of-use rates that keep climbing, but no steep 4–9pm peak cliff like the IOUs. The winning angle is rate stability — locking in today's cost before the next increase — not bill shock.

Batteries are a fit conversation, not a default: lead with them only when the homeowner mentions outages or an EV.

Parcels analyzed: 94,885
Solar permits: 19,415
Saturation: 20.5%

LADWP battery-first doors

LADWP outages are less frequent than SCE/SDG&E wildfire PSPS events, so battery-first is situational — lead with rate lock and ownership economics first.

When bill pain is mild, storage wins on backup peace-of-mind and EV load-shifting, not emergency bill rescue.

LADWP NEM 3.0 survival guide

LADWP sits outside CPUC NEM 3.0 — net metering treatment has historically been more conventional than the big IOUs.

Your pitch is not 'save export credits'; it's 'own your energy cost before the next LADWP rate action.'

LADWP export-credit math

Export value matters less when retail rates are milder — self-consumption and rate certainty carry the conversation.

Run the math on avoided purchases at today's tier, not on sell-back fantasy numbers from pre-2023 IOU pitches.

LADWP cities with live data

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