6 miles from our shop in San Dimas. We know the housing stock, the permit process, and the neighborhoods — from the 1890s Victorians in Lincoln Park to the newer builds in Phillips Ranch.
The average Pomona home was built in 1966 with a 60-100 amp panel that was never designed for central AC, EV chargers, or modern appliance loads. We upgrade to 200A and 400A panels, pull the permit through Pomona's Building and Safety Division, and get it inspected. If you're in Westmont or Ganesha Hills with a ranch home from the 50s or 60s, this is probably the single most important upgrade you can make.
Pomona Choice Energy just installed 19 EV charging stations at Palomares Park, and the city now has over 100 public chargers. But you shouldn't have to leave home to charge. We install Level 2 chargers with a dedicated 240V/50A circuit — Tesla, Ford, Rivian, whatever you drive. If your panel can't handle the extra load, we'll upgrade the panel and install the charger in one project, one permit.
If your Pomona home was built between 1965 and 1972, there's a good chance it has aluminum branch-circuit wiring. The CPSC found that homes with this wiring are 55 times more likely to have connections reach fire-hazard conditions. We inspect every connection point and either pigtail with COPALUM connectors or do a full copper rewire depending on the condition. For older homes in Lincoln Park and Hacienda Park with knob-and-tube wiring, we do complete rewires with modern copper and grounded circuits.
Federal Pacific Stab-Lok panels were installed in millions of homes from the 1950s through the 1980s — including a lot of Phillips Ranch properties and other Pomona neighborhoods built during that era. Independent testing found these breakers fail to trip during overcurrent, which means they won't protect your home when they're supposed to. Some insurance companies won't even cover homes with FPE panels anymore. We replace them with modern panels that actually work.
Recessed lighting, LED upgrades, ceiling fans, outdoor security lights, and landscape lighting for Pomona homes and businesses. We also add outlets, GFCI receptacles in kitchens and bathrooms, and dedicated circuits for home offices and workshops. Older Pomona homes are full of two-prong ungrounded outlets — we bring them up to code with proper grounding.
We're 9 minutes down the road in San Dimas. When your breaker won't reset, you smell burning from an outlet, or a Santa Ana windstorm takes out your service drop — call us any time, day or night. Pomona's summer heat regularly pushes old panels past their limits, and we've seen the after-hours calls spike every year from June through October when AC units are running nonstop on undersized wiring.
We're based in San Dimas — 6 miles, 9 minutes, right next door. We've worked across Pomona's neighborhoods and we know what's behind the walls in each one. The Cliff May ranch homes in Westmont have different electrical issues than the 1890s Victorians in Lincoln Park, and both are different from the 1978-and-newer builds in Phillips Ranch. We don't show up guessing — we know what era your home was built in and what to look for.
Pomona has over 43,000 housing units and the median build year is 1966. That means most homes in this city are sitting on 60-year-old electrical systems that were designed for a fraction of what we plug in today. Between the inland valley heat pushing AC loads all summer, the shift to electric vehicles, and insurance companies cracking down on aluminum wiring and Federal Pacific panels — the electrical work needs in Pomona are real, and they're urgent.
Between 1965 and 1972, a nationwide copper shortage led builders to use aluminum for branch-circuit wiring. With Pomona's median home built in 1966, a huge portion of the housing stock falls in this window. Aluminum expands and contracts more than copper when it heats up, which loosens connections over time. Loose connections arc. Arcing starts fires. The CPSC has documented that homes with this wiring are 55 times more likely to reach fire-hazard conditions at outlets and switches. If your home was built in this era, get it inspected.
Pomona sits in the inland valley, not the coast. August highs average over 90°F and heat waves push past 100°F regularly. That means your AC is running hard for four to five months a year. A 1960s ranch home in Westmont or Ganesha Hills with its original 60-amp panel simply cannot keep up — the panel overheats, breakers trip, and wiring degrades faster. A 200-amp upgrade gives you the headroom to run AC, charge an EV, and still have capacity to spare.
Pomona Choice Energy has been expanding public EV infrastructure across the city — 19 new stations at Palomares Park alone, and over 100 public chargers citywide. But charging at home overnight on a Level 2 charger is faster and more convenient than any public station. The catch is that most older Pomona homes need a panel upgrade before they can support the dedicated 50-amp circuit a Level 2 charger requires. We handle both in a single visit.
We're 9 minutes away in San Dimas. Call for a free assessment on any residential, commercial, or industrial electrical project in Pomona.
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