Battery incentivesSun Storage Rebate
The CPA Sun Storage Rebate: up to $2,250 toward your battery
If your city is a Clean Power Alliance member — 38 communities across LA and Ventura counties — CPA will pay you to add a home battery. Most homeowners have never heard of it, the funding is first-come first-served, and in fire-zone cities the rebate doubles. We build it into every CPA-territory quote and handle the paperwork start to finish.
The four tiers, and how they stack.
Base + Reliability+ + one equity adder = $2,250 maximum. Every tier requires the same underlying eligibility: a CPA residential account, no existing operating battery, and a battery paired with solar.
Base incentive
Every CPA residential customer qualifies — any member city or unincorporated LA/Ventura County community — as long as the home doesn't already have an operating battery. Works for new solar+battery installs and for adding a battery to existing solar.
Reliability+ (fire-zone) incentive
For accounts in a city with residents in a CAL FIRE "high" or "very high" Fire Hazard Severity Zone — or a qualifying zip in unincorporated LA/Ventura County. The rule is city-level, so much of CPA's foothill and canyon territory qualifies: Malibu, Calabasas, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village, Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Ojai and more.
Medical Baseline incentive
For households on SCE's Medical Baseline allowance — the customers for whom backup power matters most. Cannot be combined with the income-qualified adder.
Income-qualified incentive
For households enrolled in CARE or FERA bill assistance. Cannot be combined with the Medical Baseline adder — you get one of the two.
Fire country: where the rebate doubles.
The Reliability+ adder exists because CPA's fire-zone communities live with Public Safety Power Shutoffs — and it turns a scary map designation into $2,000 of battery money ($750 base + $1,250 Reliability+). The qualifying rule is generous: it applies city-wide to any member city with residents in a CAL FIRE high or very-high Fire Hazard Severity Zone. That covers most of the Woolsey-fire corridor and foothill territory we work in every week. Get a quick read with our free fire-zone checker (the CPUC fire-threat map overlaps heavily with CAL FIRE's hazard zones), verify on CPA's official Reliability+ lookup, and we confirm it definitively during quoting.
How we handle the rebate process.
Sun Storage is reservation-first with real deadlines — the kind of program where money gets lost to paperwork. Here's the sequence we run:
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Eligibility check, built into the quote
When we quote a battery for a CPA-territory address, the Sun Storage math is already in it: we confirm your city's CPA membership, check your fire-zone status for the $1,250 Reliability+ adder, and ask about Medical Baseline / CARE / FERA so no tier gets left unclaimed.
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Reservation before installation
The rebate works reservation-first: an Incentive Reservation Form — your account details plus our contractor and CSLB license information — is filed before install day. The application is in your name as the CPA account holder, so we prepare the whole thing and file it with you. Approval reserves your rebate for one year, extendable twice by three months.
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Install an eligible battery
Every battery we install — Tesla Powerwall 3, FranklinWH aPower, Enphase IQ Battery 10C — is SGIP-verified equipment, and we confirm your exact battery-and-inverter pairing against CPA's eligible list at reservation time. Changing equipment after reserving requires re-verification, which is why we lock the design first.
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SCE interconnection
CPA customers interconnect through SCE, and the rebate isn't paid until the system is interconnected. This is paperwork we run on every install anyway — nothing extra for you to manage.
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Claim, review, check
After interconnection we prepare the Incentive Claim Form — the step that actually pays — and make sure it's submitted well before your reservation expires. CPA's program administrator reviews it, and the rebate is disbursed to you.
Straight talk: funding is limited and first-come, first-served — if the budget is fully reserved you're waitlisted. That's a reason to reserve early in the project, not a reason to rush a decision.
Who's eligible — the quick checklist.
Your electricity generation comes from Clean Power Alliance — automatic if your city is a member and you haven't opted out
No operating battery at the address yet (new solar+battery and battery-retrofit-onto-existing-solar both qualify)
Battery paired with solar PV, from CPA's eligible equipment list — true of every battery we install
A CSLB-licensed contractor named on the reservation form — that's us
Renters qualify as account holders, with property-owner approval for the install
Not sure whether your city is a CPA member? The full list is on our Clean Power Alliance page.
Sun Storage questions, answered.
- How much is the CPA Sun Storage Rebate in 2026?
- Up to $2,250 per home: a $750 base rebate for any CPA residential customer without an existing battery, plus $1,250 if your account is in a qualifying fire-hazard (Reliability+) area, plus $250 if you're on Medical Baseline or $250 if you're on CARE/FERA — the medical and income adders can't be combined. Funding is first-come, first-served.
- Do I qualify if I already have solar?
- Yes — adding a battery to an existing solar system qualifies, as long as you don't already have an operating battery. That makes Sun Storage one of the best reasons in SCE territory to do a battery retrofit: the rebate plus NEM 3.0 evening arbitrage often changes the payback math meaningfully.
- How do I know if my home is in a Reliability+ area?
- The rule is city-level: if your city has residents in a CAL FIRE high or very-high Fire Hazard Severity Zone, accounts in that city qualify for the extra $1,250 (unincorporated LA and Ventura County qualify by zip). CPA publishes an official address lookup, our fire-zone checker gives you a quick read, and we verify it definitively as part of any quote.
- Is the rebate guaranteed once I apply?
- A reservation holds funds for one year (extendable twice by three months), but the rebate is only paid after the battery is installed, interconnected through SCE, and the claim form is approved — and if program funds are fully reserved when you apply, you go on a first-come, first-served waitlist. This is exactly why we file the reservation before installation and shepherd the claim through: a reservation that expires unclaimed is money left on the table.
- Can renters get the Sun Storage Rebate?
- Yes — you need to be the CPA account holder at the address, not the property owner. Renters need the owner's approval to install (and condo/townhome owners may need HOA sign-off), but the rebate itself follows the account.
- Does Sun Storage stack with other incentives?
- It's a CPA program funded separately from state programs, so stacking is possible subject to each program's current rules — though in practice the general-market SGIP tiers are waitlisted, so for most CPA homeowners Sun Storage is the rebate that actually pays in 2026. We check every program your address qualifies for on every quote.
Find out what your address qualifies for — before the funds do.
One conversation: we check CPA membership, fire-zone status, and every adder, then show you the battery math with the rebate already in it.