Infinity Electrical provides panel upgrades, EV chargers, rewiring, repairs and commercial electrical work in Costa Mesa, for older single-family homes, rentals, ADUs, mobile homes and the shops, offices and light-industrial buildings around South Coast Plaza, SoBECA and the airport area. Free estimates are available on eligible work, and the city permit and SCE's part of the job are coordinated.
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Everything we do in Costa Mesa, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
Single-family panel changeouts filed under Costa Mesa's Residential Panel Upgrade Insta-Permit when the panel is out of public view and on a dedicated service, and full service upgrades under a regular permit with SCE's part coordinated.
One home charger in an attached garage or on a side or rear wall under the city's EV Charger Insta-Permit, and apartment or commercial chargers planned around the city's expedited EV checklist.
Tracking down tripping breakers, dead outlets and warm switches in Costa Mesa houses and apartment buildings that are decades old and have been added onto over time.
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Rewiring older Costa Mesa houses and small apartment buildings on the Westside and elsewhere, often alongside a kitchen remodel, an addition or a new ADU.
Recessed, under-cabinet and exterior lighting for remodeled homes and ADUs, and storefront and interior lighting for restaurants and shops changing tenants.
Grounded and GFCI-protected outlets in older homes and rentals, plus 240-volt circuits for the dryers, ranges and heat pumps these buildings were never wired for.
Repairs, added circuits and panel work for owners and residents of Costa Mesa mobile homes, with the ownership of the park's electrical equipment and the inspecting agency confirmed first.
Tenant improvements, equipment circuits, lighting and panel changes for shops, restaurants and offices around South Coast Plaza, SoBECA and the Newport Boulevard and 17th Street corridors, and three-phase work for light-industrial units in the airport area.
Also: subpanels, dedicated circuits, 240-volt outlets for dryers and ranges, exterior and security lighting, hard-wired smoke alarms, and small repairs of every kind.
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Call (844) 430-7681Request an estimateInfinity Electrical is a licensed electrical contractor working in Costa Mesa on panel changeouts and service upgrades, EV charger installs, rewiring, troubleshooting and commercial electrical work. Permits come from the City of Costa Mesa's Building Division, part of the Development Services Department at City Hall on Fair Drive, and applications go in through the city's online system, the Totally Electronic Self Service Application, known as TESSA. Southern California Edison owns the lines and meters, so anything that touches the service has a utility step as well as a city one.
Costa Mesa's housing is older than its busy shopping districts suggest. The city's 2021–2029 housing element states plainly that the majority of housing units in Costa Mesa were built more than 30 years ago, and it lists well over a dozen census tracts where more than 40 percent of units are renter-occupied. A city town hall presentation on the housing element counted 40,555 households in 2020. In practice that means a lot of houses and apartment buildings whose panels and circuits were sized for a different generation of appliances, now being asked to carry an EV charger, a heat pump, an induction range or a backyard unit.
Infinity Electrical Inc. (CSLB #1100231) works with homeowners, landlords, property managers and business owners in Costa Mesa, and every estimate starts from the existing panel, the meter location and the loads being planned. Customer assistance is available in English and Spanish.
Areas we cover in Costa Mesa
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Costa Mesa mixes older single-family neighborhoods, a large rental stock, mobile homes and busy commercial and light-industrial districts, and each one brings different electrical work.
Costa Mesa (ZIP codes 92626 and 92627) is an incorporated city with its own Building Division, so city work is permitted by the City of Costa Mesa rather than the County of Orange. Costa Mesa borders several other cities, each with its own building department, and a mailing address near a city line does not always tell you which one applies, so we confirm the city from the parcel before quoting.
Permits through TESSA. The Building Division takes applications online through TESSA. The city requires every contractor applying for a permit to hold an active State of California contractor's license and a Costa Mesa business license, and owner-builder versions exist for some permit types. For a job that needs a permit, the application and inspection are coordinated as part of the work.
Insta-Permits for simple electrical jobs. Costa Mesa issues Insta-Permits, which the city describes as building permits for certain simple projects with a limited scope. Two matter most for electrical work at a house. The Residential Panel Upgrade Insta-Permit covers the changeout, upgrade or relocation of a single-meter main panel on a single-family home with a dedicated service, as long as the panel is on private property and not visible to the public. The Residential EV Charger Insta-Permit covers one charger with its conduit and wiring at a single-family home with a dedicated electrical service, installed in an attached garage or on an exterior side or rear wall where it is not visible to the public. The applicant fills in the city's standard plan for that permit, uploads it in TESSA and pays the invoice, and the permit is emailed back. Inspectors check the work in the field against that standard plan, so it has to be complete and accurate. Work outside those limits, such as a panel visible to the public, a second charger, or adding circuits, lights or other equipment at the same time, goes through a regular Electrical-Residential or Electrical-EV Charger permit instead.
Expedited EV permits for apartments and businesses. The Building Division publishes separate eligibility checklists for EV charging stations at multi-family and non-residential properties. If a project meets every item on the checklist, the city says plan review begins the day after submittal and takes up to 3 business days; other EV charging projects take up to 10 business days. The checklists ask for a load calculation, a site plan drawn to scale and a single-line diagram, and the electrical plans must be signed by a California-licensed electrical engineer or a C-10 electrical contractor. The checklist also states that permit approval is not subject to a homeowners association.
The utility's part. Southern California Edison delivers power in Costa Mesa and owns the lines and the meter. When a job involves the panel, the meter or the service, SCE's part is scheduled around the city inspection, and those steps are coordinated in order.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
Costa Mesa's neighbours are all separate cities with their own building departments and their own permit processes, so the same job is filed differently a few blocks away. Huntington Beach, Santa Ana and Irvine have their own pages with their permit offices and power supplier explained; Newport Beach and Fountain Valley each permit work through their own city as well. Near any of these lines we check the parcel before the estimate, because the mailing address alone can point to the wrong city.
See the full list of areas we cover across Los Angeles, Orange and Ventura counties.
No phone quotes and no guessing. A written estimate after we've seen the job, then permitted, inspected work.
Call or send the form. A photo of the panel or the problem helps us come prepared.
We come to your home or business and look at the panel, wiring or site.
Scope, price and timeline in writing before you decide anything.
We pull the permit, coordinate your utility when needed, and finish with the inspection.
Yes, if the job fits the city's Residential Panel Upgrade Insta-Permit: a single-meter main panel on a single-family home with a dedicated service, on private property and not visible to the public. The application is a completed standard plan uploaded through TESSA, and the permit is emailed after payment. A panel in public view, or a panel change combined with other work, needs a regular Electrical-Residential permit; see panel upgrades.
For one charger at a single-family home with a dedicated electrical service, installed in an attached garage or on a side or rear wall out of public view, Costa Mesa offers a Residential EV Charger Insta-Permit through TESSA. Anything outside that scope uses the regular Electrical-EV Charger permit. Apartment buildings and businesses use the city's expedited EV checklist; see EV charger installation.
No, not for the city permit itself: Costa Mesa's EV charging checklists state that permit approval is not subject to a homeowners association, and the city's review is limited to health and safety. If the charger is in a shared garage or parking area, we talk with the property manager about the location before work starts.
Not always; the answer comes from a load calculation on the existing service. Many older Costa Mesa homes still have their original or a heavily added-onto panel, so a large new load often does mean an upgrade, but sometimes a dedicated circuit or a load-managed charger fits. The options are laid out in our article on adding a charger to a 100-amp panel.
Yes, we take on repairs, added circuits and panel work for Costa Mesa mobile home owners and park operators. Because park electrical systems are shared, we confirm which equipment belongs to the home and which to the park, and which agency inspects, before starting. Park work is described on the mobile home electrical service page.
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