Infinity Electrical is a licensed electrical contractor for San Pedro, the harbor community at the southern end of the City of Los Angeles, beside the Port of Los Angeles. We upgrade panels, rewire older houses, trace faults, add EV charger circuits and wire shops and industrial units on LADBS permits and LADWP power, and we check where the Rancho Palos Verdes city line puts an address under different rules.
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Everything we do in San Pedro, with what each job usually involves here. The photos are from our own jobs.
Service upgrades for 1960s and 1970s hillside houses and for older homes near Downtown, with the LADWP meter spot coordinated and, inside Vinegar Hill, the location checked against the HPOZ before work begins. Background reading: does a heat pump or induction range need a bigger panel?
Level 2 charger circuits for driveways and garages, which on a hillside lot means planning the route from the panel first, and for condo owners and renters, agreed with the HOA or owner before any equipment is bought.
Finding the cause of tripping breakers, dead outlets and flickering lights in houses that have been rewired piece by piece, and in apartment buildings where several units share aging equipment.
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Section-by-section rewiring of Vinegar Hill and Point Fermin houses so owners can stay in the home, with interior routes chosen to leave a historic exterior as the preservation plan expects.
Fixture and ceiling fan work in older homes, exterior and step lighting for sloping lots, and shop and sign lighting for businesses Downtown and along Gaffey Street and Pacific Avenue.
GFCI protection for kitchens, baths and outdoor outlets on decks and patios, grounded outlets where two-prong receptacles remain, and dedicated circuits for laundry and air conditioning in older bungalows.
Circuits, repairs and panel or pedestal work for residents and management at San Pedro's senior mobile home park, with the inspecting agency confirmed under state park rules first.
Three-phase feeders, machine circuits, panel work and LED lighting for workshops and light industrial units in the North Gaffey Street area, and tenant improvements for storefronts and restaurants Downtown.
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 Inc. (CSLB #1100231) offers electrical work for houses, condominiums, apartment buildings, storefronts and industrial spaces in San Pedro. The community sits on the Palos Verdes Peninsula near the end of the Harbor Freeway, and City Planning's community plan notes that it is joined to the rest of Los Angeles only by the Harbor Gateway, a narrow strip of city land. It feels far from City Hall, yet for every electrical permit and every meter it is as much a part of the city as Hollywood or Van Nuys.
San Pedro incorporated as its own town in 1888 and was annexed by the City of Los Angeles in 1909, which tied its future to the harbor next door. The 2017 community plan builds on that closeness to the port and the water while aiming to keep what it calls the community's small town feel.
The housing grew outward and uphill from the waterfront. The oldest neighborhoods lie near the harbor in the center of town, on grid streets where single-family houses and apartments share the same blocks; post-war tracts of modern and ranch-style homes came next, the northwest filled in mostly between 1960 and 1980, and condominiums followed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As a result, the electrical service on a San Pedro property might be a Victorian-era cottage that has been rewired in pieces, a 1970s hillside house sized for the appliances of its day, or a condo panel that shares a meter room with dozens of neighbours.
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City Planning's 2018–2022 estimates count about 32,900 housing units in the San Pedro community plan area, 55% of them in buildings with more than one unit, and renters in about 56% of occupied homes. Close to one unit in five dates from 1939 or earlier, about three in four were built before 1980, and only around 6% are from 2000 or later.
San Pedro (ZIP codes 90731 and 90732; 90733 is used for post office boxes) lies inside the City of Los Angeles, so the citywide LADBS and LADWP steps below apply to almost every address here. Two edges deserve a look before a job is written up: the western city line with Rancho Palos Verdes, and a pocket of unincorporated county land in the middle of town.
The Rancho Palos Verdes line. City Planning places San Pedro directly east of Rancho Palos Verdes, a separate incorporated city, and crossing that line changes both the permit office and the utility. Rancho Palos Verdes runs its own Building and Safety Division, which lists electrical items among its over-the-counter permits and takes MEP permits through its eTrakit portal, and Southern California Edison supplies its power. A panel upgrade on the San Pedro side therefore goes to LADBS and LADWP, while the same job just across the line goes to the RPV counter and SCE. The electric bill is a good first clue: LADWP usually points to San Pedro's rules, SCE to a neighbouring city's. The SCE disconnections in the landslide area that made news in 2024 were in Rancho Palos Verdes, and our Rancho Palos Verdes page explains that side.
La Rambla. According to the community plan, an area of unincorporated Los Angeles County land known as La Rambla sits in the middle of San Pedro, and its land uses follow the County General Plan rather than the city's; the plan places Little Company of Mary Hospital on 7th Street inside it. An address there can read San Pedro on the envelope while falling outside the city, so the permit office is confirmed from the parcel before anything is priced.
Vinegar Hill HPOZ. Vinegar Hill, an early suburb just south of Downtown San Pedro, became a Historic Preservation Overlay Zone in 2001 and was expanded in 2015. City Planning describes tree-lined streets of modest single-family houses built from 1886 to 1927: Queen Anne, American Foursquare and Craftsman designs, with later Colonial Revival and Spanish Colonial Revival homes. After the expansion, the Planning Commission described the merged district as generally bounded by 8th Street, Harbor Boulevard, 12th Street and Pacific Avenue. Exterior projects inside it are reviewed against the Vinegar Hill Preservation Plan, which follows the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation. City Planning's HPOZ review is aimed at exterior work, so new wiring inside the walls is generally outside it, but a relocated meter, a new service mast or a charger on a street-facing wall should go past the district's HPOZ staff at City Planning before the LADWP meter location is settled, and we raise that at the estimate.
Hillside and bluff-top lots. The community plan limits development on hillsides to what the terrain and infrastructure can reasonably support, and the coastline has a long record of moving ground: Sunken City at Point Fermin began sliding toward the sea in 1929, and a 2011 landslide destroyed a section of Paseo del Mar beside the White Point Nature Preserve. On a sloping lot the practical questions are where the meter can sit and how a feeder reaches a garage below the house; we look at both on the first visit, and LADWP's meter spot settles where new service equipment may go.
Permits come from the Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety (LADBS). A new circuit, an EV charger, a sub-panel or a panel replacement is permitted work, and LADBS will not send an inspector until the permit is issued. We pull it under our license and meet the inspector at the end.
Power comes from the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP), not Southern California Edison. For repairs, lighting, new outlets and a charger that fits on the existing panel, LADWP is not involved. For a panel or service upgrade it is: the job starts with LADWP's free meter spot, where an Electric Service Representative visits within five to fifteen business days, confirms where the new equipment may go and leaves a sketch at the job (single-family services up to 320 amps can be requested online). When only the meter needs setting, LADWP says that generally happens within ten working days. If the existing LADWP service can carry the new load there are generally no LADWP charges; work in the street, on a transformer or on the lines can add cost and time, and we find that out before you commit.
The permits and utilities guide explains the whole picture for the three counties we serve.
Wilmington and Harbor City, to the north, are City of Los Angeles communities, so LADBS permits and LADWP power carry over unchanged; Terminal Island, across the Main Channel, is split between the cities of Los Angeles and Long Beach and is almost entirely port land, so the jurisdiction there is checked site by site. To the west, Rancho Palos Verdes is a separate city: it issues its own permits through its Building and Safety Division and is SCE territory. Long Beach, which shares the harbor, has its own building department and gets its electricity from SCE. Nearby Lomita now provides its own building and safety services after LA County stopped doing so, and Torrance, farther north, runs its own Building and Safety Division; both are on SCE.
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.
The city line decides it, and your electric bill is a good first clue: an LADWP bill usually means you are in San Pedro, inside the City of Los Angeles, while an SCE bill points to Rancho Palos Verdes or another neighbouring city. The answer changes who issues the permit, LADBS or RPV's Building and Safety Division, and which utility sets the meter. We confirm the jurisdiction from the parcel before quoting a job near the line.
San Pedro is served by LADWP, because it has been part of the City of Los Angeles since 1909, and LADBS issues its permits. Wilmington and Harbor City, also City of Los Angeles communities, are the same. Rancho Palos Verdes, Lomita, Torrance and Long Beach are separate cities on SCE power, so the rules change once you cross into them.
It may, because exterior projects in the Vinegar Hill HPOZ are reviewed against the district's preservation plan, and a meter or service mast on the outside of the house is an exterior change. City Planning's HPOZ review covers exterior work, so rewiring or replacing an indoor panel in place is generally outside it. Talk to the HPOZ staff at City Planning before the new meter location is agreed with LADWP; we flag this when we look at the job.
It depends on a load calculation, not on the age of the house alone: some panels from that era have spare room, and others need a service upgrade first. On a sloping San Pedro lot, the distance from the panel to the parking or to the outdoor unit also matters, since a long run can call for heavier wire or a sub-panel. Our guide to adding a charger to a 100-amp panel explains the calculation, and see also EV charger installation.
Often, but the HOA comes first, because the circuit usually runs from equipment or through areas the association controls. The useful starting facts are where your unit's meter and panel are, how far your space is from them and what the association's rules say. We can look at the route and the panel with the HOA's manager, and our article on EV charger permits in Los Angeles covers the LADBS side.
Start with a list of the machines and their nameplate ratings, then find out what service the building already has, since a building may already have three-phase service or may need LADWP to bring it in. An electrician can compare the two and tell you whether new feeders are enough or the service must change. Read leasing a shop that needs three-phase power before signing a lease.
Flickering in every room deserves a check by a licensed electrician, because it can point to a loose connection in the service or the panel rather than a single bad bulb or fixture. Some causes sit on LADWP's side of the meter and some on yours, and an older house that has been rewired in stages has more connections where that can happen. Please don't open the panel yourself; our article on whole-house flickering lists what to note before the visit.
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