Los Gatos Electrician.
Hillside Generators. Old Wiring. Direct Line.

Yes — Cali Rollin Electric serves the Town of Los Gatos and all of Santa Clara County. Hillside generator installs, panel upgrades, EV charger installations, rewiring, ADU electrical, pre-sale clearance, and emergency electrical response across the Town, including Almond Grove, Glenridge, Rinconada Hills, the Blossom Hill area, and the hillside corridor. C-10 License #1144031.

Yes — most electrical work in the Town of Los Gatos requires a permit from the Town of Los Gatos Building Division. The Building Division is at 110 East Main Street, (408) 354-6876, with counter hours 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday through Friday. Permits are filed through the Town's Accela Citizen Access portal; residential solar permits route through SolarApp+. We pull the permit and handle the inspection scheduling on every job that requires one.

Yes. The hillside corridor and the 95033 ZIP area get Public Safety Power Shutoff events from PG&E during high fire-risk wind conditions — most recently a multi-day shutoff in October 2024 affecting around 170 mountain residents. Whole-house standby generators with automatic transfer switches are the standard fix. We size the generator to the home's actual load (not just the panel rating), coordinate the gas line scope with your plumber, and pull the electrical and mechanical permits through the Building Division. The Town also requires HOA approval letters when applicable and a complete plot plan showing setbacks before the permit is accepted.

Yes. The Town of Los Gatos has five officially designated historic districts: Almond Grove, Broadway, Downtown Commercial, Fairview Plaza, and University/Edelen. Exterior electrical changes in these districts — service mast relocation, panel moves to a visible wall, generator placement — require review by the Historic Preservation Committee before the building permit is issued. We've done historic-house wiring before and coordinate that review through the Town.

The Town's permit process requires an HOA approval letter for exterior changes (generators, EV chargers, panel moves) in HOA-governed neighborhoods. Rinconada Hills and Belwood of Los Gatos are the most common we encounter. We coordinate with the HOA on the approval letter and timing so the permit application doesn't sit waiting on documentation.

Effective January 1, 2026, the Town of Los Gatos adopted local Reach Code amendments under Ordinance 2380. Two parts touch electrical scope on remodels: (1) when an air conditioning unit is replaced on an existing single-family home, the replacement must be a heat pump, which can affect panel capacity; and (2) when a remodel or addition installs gas or propane equipment, the home must include electric pre-wiring for future conversion to electric appliances. We coordinate the pre-wiring scope with your designer or general contractor and pull the electrical permit through the Building Division.

PG&E delivers power throughout the Town of Los Gatos. Generation is supplied by Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), the Community Choice Aggregation provider for most of Santa Clara County. PG&E still owns the wires, the meter, and the outage response; SVCE handles the electricity generation side of your bill. For our work this means PG&E coordination on service upgrades, disconnects, and reconnects — which we handle directly so you're not the one calling.