Areas We Serve in the Bay Area
Local solar installers across the Bay Area
Nabu Energy is headquartered at 39899 Balentine Dr #200 in Newark, California, and works across the East Bay, the South Bay, the Peninsula and Marin from there. Rooftop solar, home battery storage, EV charger installation and main service panel upgrades are all delivered by our own employees, and no sales commission is built into the price.
Our service radius
One office, one set of crews
Every city below is covered by the same team that works out of Newark. Fremont has its own page covering the permit route, the electricity provider and what changes locally. Guides for the other cities will follow.
Cities we cover
Pick your city
Fremont
Solar, battery storage and EV chargers for Fremont homes, permitted with the City of Fremont.
Newark
Our own city. The office is on Balentine Drive, a few minutes from most Newark addresses.
Union City
SolarAPP+ with a local caveat, and Ava Community Energy on the supply side.
Solar panel installation in Union City →Hayward
A plan-check city rather than an instant-permit city, so the sequence is planned around that.
Pleasanton
Renewable 100 billing and a two-part permit process through Accela Citizen Access.
Dublin
A city where many roofs already carry an array, so the work is often storage and panel upgrades.
Milpitas
SolarAPP+ for eligible systems, with storage sized around evening use.
San Jose
An online permit where the roof qualifies, and a bracket inspection before a battery goes on.
Sunnyvale
Near-instant permitting for eligible rooftop work, plus the panel upgrades behind it.
Santa Clara
A city-owned utility, so the utility approves the system before the city does.
Livermore
An inland city with online-only residential permits and a job packet the city checks at final.
San Leandro
Instant permits since 2024, once you confirm the home is inside city limits.
Cupertino
Eichler roofs take their own permit route, and the instant permit is on hold for now.
Oakland
Same-day permits in the flats and a widened fire zone in the hills.
Palo Alto
A city-owned utility with its own NEM 2 program, so interconnection comes before the permit.
Los Altos
SolarAPP+ permits issued on payment, and 8 of 11 solar permits in one recent month included backup.
Los Altos Hills
Acre lots open up ground mounts, and batteries share the solar permit.
Saratoga
Express permits through Symbium for solar, storage, panels and chargers.
Los Gatos
Two permit lanes, four historic districts and a foothill fire zone.
Atherton
Heritage oaks shape the design long before the roof does.
Portola Valley
A three-day expedited permit with Woodside Fire review.
Hillsborough
Roof solar skips design review, and the Town runs an automated permit route.
Stinson Beach
Marin County online permits, MCE credits and the coastal zone.
Where we are
Nabu Energy, Newark, California
39899 Balentine Dr #200, Newark, California 94560. Requesting an assessment does not commit you to anything.
Ask for an assessmentIf your city is not listed above, call and ask. The crews work the 680 and 880 corridors, and the answer is usually yes.