Electrify the Rebuild – All-Electric Homes & Clean Energy Resources

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Whether you’re just getting started on learning what electrification means and how it can fit into your rebuild story or you're an expert already searching for contractors and models to see your vision through – we have resources to support you.

Electrify the Rebuild is Resilient Palisades’ post-fire effort to help families rebuild safer, healthier, all-electric homes. We help residents understand their options, connect with trusted resources, and navigate incentives for energy upgrades.

Our vision is to make Pacific Palisades a national model for post-disaster recovery, with resilient, all-electric neighborhoods powered by clean energy. When combined with solar, battery storage, and our goal for a community microgrid, many of us in the community will never have to go without power again.

Help shape our campaign by letting us know your plans for electrification via this quick survey.

Why Electrify?

Switching to electric appliances is a safer, healthier, and more affordable long-term choice for your family and community.

Protect your Health.

Electric homes reduce indoor air pollution, eliminating harmful emissions released by gas appliances that are linked to respiratory diseases and other health issues.

Save Money

Electrification incentives from LADWP HOME LA and California Electric Home Program (CalEHP) can cover $25,000+ when you go all-electric and add solar and battery storage systems.
Lower upfront costs by skipping a gas line – saving $3,000-10,000 in construction costs. California gas utilities plan to spend $43 billion on replacing old pipelines by 2045, costs that will ultimately fall on gas consumers in the form of higher gas bills.
High-efficiency electric appliances use less energy than gas appliances, leading to lower monthly bills, plus protection from rising gas prices (gas rates are increasing faster than electricity rates in Southern California).
Experience an average $23,000 increase in home value (estimated by 2023 Zillow analysis of all-electric properties).

Build a Safer Community

Increase your home’s resilience by building all-electric with battery storage, so when a power outage happens, you can stay online and experience energy independence.
Protect your community from significant fire hazards like methane gas pipelines that can leak or explode during wildfires. In the recent fires, leaking gas worsened the situation, putting residents and firefighters at risk.
Communities that adopt these fire-adaptive measures have a better chance of securing lower insurance rates, making them more resilient against future disasters.

Dive Deeper on Why

Learn more about why you should electrify your rebuild with this 1-hour webinar, hosted with experts from Rewiring America, LADWP's HOME LA Program, and Boulder County's Office of Sustainability.

Learn from architects, fire safety engineers, clean energy experts, builders, city leaders, and utility representatives about real decisions facing Palisades residents as we rebuild, wildfire resilient design, how to electrify your home, navigating permits and financing, and what the future of electrification looks like for Los Angeles.

Watch the Panels: Our Electric Future

How to Electrify

Going all-electric might feel like a daunting swap to you, but this technology is not new – it is tested, proven, and trusted by many of your neighbors even before the fires. Fill out this form to speak to one of your neighbors that used this equipment in their homes before.

Learn which electric appliances you need.

The largest source of energy consumption in a house is heating and cooling, so it’s no surprise that one of the first places many homeowners start on their journey to home electrification is replacing their gas furnace and air conditioning systems with an all-in-one energy-efficient electric heat pump system.

Check out our Heat Pump 101 webinar with Elephant Energy.

Heat Pumps

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Approximately 20% of energy-use within a house comes from water heating according to the DOE.

You may have heard negative talk about average electric resistance water heaters, but HPWHs run incredibly efficiently and save energy. *Check out Ultra-low GWP HPWHs for a $3,000 rebate bonus.

Heat Pump Water Heaters

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Gas cooktops indirectly heat your cookware, meaning only 40% of the energy created is used efficiency – that’s a lot of waste. Plus, kids living in a home with gas stoves face a 42% increased risk for asthma. Induction cooktops use magnetism to heat your metal cookware directly, increasing energy-efficiency to 85-90%. Electric cooktops are another great option (70% efficiency).

Electric Cooking

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Heat pump dryers stand out for their efficiency and performance. These use a refrigerant system to extract heat from the air around the appliance, making them much more energy-efficient. Plus, they don't require ventilation, meaning a lower risk of fire entering your home. While traditional electric dryers have better efficiency than gas dryers, electric dryers will not qualify for HOME LA rebates.

Heat Pump Clothes Dryers

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Go a Step Further

If you’re ready to go a step further and explore how to make it possible to not reconnect your gas line, you might consider the following technologies. In SoCal, it’s reported that skipping the gas infrastructure and interconnection can save new builds $3,000 to $10,000 in capital costs.

When entire neighborhoods switch together, utilities can shut down sections of the gas system, reducing maintenance costs and benefiting all residents.

Electric Solutions

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Heat pump pool heaters are energy-efficient, electric units that extract heat from the air to warm pool water.

Check out Resilient Palisades’ pool heater guide here.

Heat Pump Pool Heaters

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Electric LED fireplaces use a combination of ultra-fine water vapor, LED lights, and varying air pressures to simulate the appearance of flames, and can produce an impressive amount of efficient, smokeless heat.

Electric Fireplaces

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Electric grills can use both infrared radiant heat and conductive heat, broadening your options for types of electric grills to use in your home.

Electric Grills

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Infrared outdoor heaters provide the warmth you need to enjoy your patio, backyard, or porch, without burning fossil fuels like propane.

Electric Outdoor Heaters

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There are a variety of electric saunas that offer safer operation, no gas lines, and greater energy efficiency than gas saunas. Consider a wall mounted sauna, standalone sauna, electric stone sauna, or infrared sauna.

Saunas

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Check out our growing list of appliance models that are currently eligible for LADWP’s HOME LA rebates to maximize your savings.

Maximize Incentives

To help decide what technologies you want to electrify, you’ll want to understand where the greatest savings are first, so take the time to learn about which incentives you qualify for.

Navigating rebates and tax credits can feel overwhelming. We’ve simplified the process.

Learn how to qualify for over $25,000 in incentives when you stack LADWP’s HOME LA and the California Electric Homes Program here. If you’re outside of LADWP territory, find out which incentives you’re eligible for with the Switch Is On’s Incentives Finder.

Choose the Right Contractor

To help decide what technologies you want to electrify, you’ll want to understand where the greatest savings are first, so take the time to learn about which incentives you qualify for.

Resilient Palisades is building out a list of trusted contractors that can support your electrification journey. Check out who we’ve found and the resources available to support them here.

And sign up for California Electric Homes Free Technical Design Assistance to help you and your contractor learn how to make the upgrades possible for your rebuild.

Add Resilience: Solar, Battery, Storage and EVs

Resilient Palisades is launching a vetted solar installers program soon! Sign up here to be the first to know when it goes live.

In 2022, we partnered with trusted, local installers, with a track record of quality installations, community engagement, and experience with LADWP and California incentive programs. Find out who those installers were here.

Make it Simple

Choose a pre-approved all-electric home. The Foothill Catalog offers a range of home designs that have been pre-approved by local permitting authorities (already undergone review by Planning and Building & Safety). This approach offers a faster, more affordable pathway to rebuilding homes lost to disaster. All homes in the Catalog are designed all-electric because these architects know this is the standard new construction should be built to.

Check out the catalog of Pacific Palisades electric homes.

Prepare for the Future: Underground

If you are rebuilding in Pacific Palisades, LADWP now requires homes to be built ready for future underground electric service.

Even though your home may receive overhead power today, you must install infrastructure during construction so your property can convert to underground service later without tearing up your driveway, landscaping, or hardscaping.

View the full LADWP Requirements here.