Licensed electricians for Garden Grove's 1950s tract houses, apartments, mobile home parks and the shops and hotels along Garden Grove Boulevard, Brookhurst Street and the resort area: panel and service upgrades, EV chargers, rewiring and repairs, with the city permit and SCE's part coordinated. Free estimates on eligible work.
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Everything we do in Garden Grove, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
Service and panel upgrades for Garden Grove's 1950s tract houses, with the Edison SR number obtained first so the city's online service upgrade permit can be issued, then the inspection and SCE's reconnection coordinated.
Level 2 home chargers filed under the city's single-family eligibility checklist through GG READY, and apartment or commercial chargers with the site plan, single-line diagram and load worksheet Garden Grove asks for.
Tracking down tripping breakers, dead outlets and warm switches in original tract-home wiring and in older apartment buildings around the city.
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Rewiring 1950s and 1960s Garden Grove houses that still run on their original circuits, often alongside a kitchen remodel, an addition or an ADU.
Recessed, under-cabinet and exterior lighting for remodeled tract homes, and storefront and sign lighting for shops along Garden Grove Boulevard, Brookhurst Street and Bolsa Avenue.
Grounded and GFCI-protected outlets in place of the two-prong ones still found in many of Garden Grove's postwar houses and rentals, plus 240-volt circuits for dryers, ranges and heat pumps.
Repairs, added circuits and panel work for residents and owners of Garden Grove's mobile home parks, with the inspecting agency confirmed first under the state's park rules.
Tenant improvements, equipment circuits, lighting and panel changes for restaurants, markets and offices in Little Saigon, OC Koreatown and for the Grove District hotels, including three-phase work where a building has it or needs it.
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 doing panel and service upgrades, EV charger installs, rewiring, repairs and commercial electrical work in Garden Grove. Permits come from the City of Garden Grove's Building and Safety Division at City Hall, and Southern California Edison is the utility: it owns the lines and meter and, because Garden Grove is not an Orange County Power Authority member, it also supplies the power by default.
Garden Grove dates to 1874, when Alonzo Cook bought farmland here and suggested the name for the school and village, but most of today's city is younger than that suggests. The city's own history says the postwar real estate boom brought its largest growth and that Garden Grove was called the fastest-growing city in America in the late 1950s. Residents voted to incorporate in 1956, and the Orange County Historical Society's account says the new city approved 25 annexations in its first year, bringing in farmland that soon became tract housing. A house from that era was wired for a few lights, a range and maybe a window unit; it was not wired for a car charger, central air, a heat pump water heater and a backyard ADU on the same service.
The city is now home to about 172,000 people according to the 2020 Census, and Census survey figures for 2020 to 2024 put the owner-occupied rate at 53.1%, so close to half of homes are rented. The housing element counts 48,504 housing units in 2021, roughly two-thirds of them single-family homes, about 31% multifamily and 3.4% mobile homes. Infinity Electrical Inc. (CSLB #1100231) works with owner-occupants, landlords and businesses alike, and the estimate starts from the existing panel, the meter and the loads being planned. Customer assistance is available in English and Spanish.
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Garden Grove is mostly a city of postwar single-family tracts, with apartments, a sizeable mobile home population and busy commercial corridors mixed in, and each of those calls for different electrical work.
Garden Grove (ZIP codes 92840, 92841, 92843, 92844 and 92845) is an incorporated city with its own Building and Safety Division. It has no county islands of its own: neither Orange County LAFCO's January 2024 report on unincorporated areas nor its June 2026 island report lists one associated with Garden Grove. Neighbouring cities are a different story, since Stanton and Westminster both have unincorporated pockets that the County of Orange permits, so near the Stanton and Westminster edges we check the parcel, not just the mailing address, before quoting.
Permits. The Building and Safety Division takes new applications for residential, commercial and engineering permits through the city's Development Access website, which the city's EV page calls its GG READY portal, and inspections are requested online through the Online Building Permit Application. A short list of simple permits, including electric service upgrades and temporary power poles, can be applied for and paid online by owners or contractors. The city's permit FAQ notes one condition on the service upgrade: an Edison SR number is required, so the SCE service request has to be opened before the online permit application can go in. We coordinate those two steps in the right order as part of the job.
An expedited path for EV chargers. Garden Grove's EV Charge page says a Level 1 charger that plugs into a standard 120-volt outlet needs no permit as long as the electrical system is not changed to provide that outlet, while a Level 2 charger on a new 240-volt circuit usually needs an electrical permit and a showing that the service can carry the added load. For a single-family home, the application and the city's Single-Family Residential Eligibility Checklist for expedited permitting are uploaded through the GG READY portal, and the technical review is limited to health and safety. Apartment buildings and commercial sites need a combined building and electrical permit with a scaled site plan, a single-line diagram and a load calculation worksheet. The city says staff review submittals within ten business days. If the home is in an HOA, the association may need to approve the charger before the permit is issued.
Who supplies the power. Garden Grove is SCE territory, and unlike Fullerton, Buena Park or Irvine it does not appear on the Orange County Power Authority's member list, so most accounts here get both delivery and generation from SCE. SCE describes itself as the company that reads meters, maintains the lines and responds to outages even where a community choice program supplies the energy. For a service upgrade or meter spot on an existing connection, SCE's Building, Renovation and Project Planning Portal is where the utility's side starts, and moving or removing SCE equipment is requested by phone.
Historic areas. Garden Grove does not have a large set of historic districts with design rules for houses. The housing element describes a Historical-Cultural Overlay Zone that the city may apply to historic properties in the future but that currently has no base zones attached, and says the old Main Street Historical-Retail standards were folded into the CC-2 zone along Main Street between Acacia Parkway and Garden Grove Boulevard in 2012. For work on a storefront or a mixed-use building there, we check with Planning before changing anything on the street side.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
The sharpest contrast is Anaheim, to the north: Anaheim Public Utilities says it runs the only municipal electric system in Orange County, so a service upgrade there goes through the city's utility instead of SCE, even though the Grove District hotels just across the line are SCE customers. Santa Ana, Orange, Westminster, Stanton, Fountain Valley and Cypress each issue their own permits and are SCE territory like Garden Grove, although OCPA lists Fountain Valley as coming soon, which would change its default supplier but not its wires utility. Stanton and Westminster also have unincorporated county pockets (Westminster's Bolsa-Midway area alone is close to 300 acres, and Midway City is an unincorporated community mostly surrounded by Westminster), where the County of Orange is the permit office. Little Saigon itself spans the Garden Grove and Westminster line, so a shop's address tells you which city to file with only once the parcel is checked.
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.
Because the city's permit FAQ lists “Edison SR# required” for electric service upgrades applied for online, so the SCE service request number has to exist before the city application. That means SCE's side of the job is opened first, then the city permit, the work and the inspection follow. We coordinate both as part of a panel upgrade.
No, Garden Grove does not appear on OCPA's list of member communities, so Southern California Edison is the default power supplier as well as the company that owns the lines and meter. Nearby Fullerton, Buena Park and Irvine are members, so their default generation supplier is different. Either way, the utility work on a service upgrade is SCE's.
For a single-family home, the application and the city's Single-Family Residential Eligibility Checklist are uploaded through the GG READY portal for expedited review, which the city says takes up to ten business days. A Level 1 charger plugged into an existing outlet needs no permit, as long as no electrical changes are made for it. Apartments and businesses file a combined building and electrical permit with a site plan and load calculation; see EV charger installation.
Often, but not always: the answer comes from a load calculation on the existing service, which is the same thing the city's EV checklist asks you to show. A postwar tract home on its original service has little room to spare, so adding a big load frequently means an upgrade. Our post on EV chargers on a 100-amp panel explains the options.
Very likely the city: Orange County LAFCO's reports list no county islands associated with Garden Grove. The exceptions come near Stanton and Westminster, which both have unincorporated pockets permitted by the County of Orange; along the Little Saigon stretch the question is usually Garden Grove or Westminster instead. Either way, we confirm the parcel before the estimate.
No, the Grove District Anaheim Resort hotels are in Garden Grove, so the City of Garden Grove issues the permits and SCE provides the electric service, despite the Anaheim name. Across the city line, Anaheim Public Utilities serves Anaheim properties. See commercial electrical work.
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