Now bidding · San Diego County
Ingalls Electric Company
Three generations · One trade
Vol. 03 · Field Operations America's Grid · 2026

The grid is being rebuilt.
We're the ones rebuilding it.

EV chargers. Solar arrays. Heat pumps. Data centers. A century of wiring at the end of its life. The country is rewiring itself one panel at a time — and a skilled crew is what gets the work done right.

⌖  Tap to identify any electrical work · Free · No signup
3,600+ jobs bid
Since 2018
01 — The thesis

While the utilities focus on the grid,
the smaller crews build the real infrastructure.

PG&E, SDG&E, and Southern California Edison are pouring billions into transmission lines, substations, and high-voltage rebuilds. That work matters — but it stops at the meter.

Everything past the meter is ours. The EV chargers in your garage. The solar inverter on your wall. The heat pump that replaced your furnace. The panel that's been there since 1978 and was never sized for any of it. The data center somebody's quietly putting up on your block.

The big guys see a grid. We see the wire that runs from the grid to the thing you actually plugged in. There are hundreds of millions of those. Each one needs a licensed crew that shows up, does it right, and doesn't burn the house down.

That's the work. That's all we do.

02 — The tool

Snap a photo.
We'll tell you what it is.

Educational · Not certified inspection · Free

Open the camera. Point it at any electrical work — a panel, a wire in your crawl space, an outlet that doesn't feel right, the EV charger your buddy installed for you last weekend. In about ten seconds, you'll see what we see: the parts, the risks, what to do next, and whether you should be calling a licensed electrician (you almost always should).

Analyzing · 2.4s
⌖ Sample · Junction box · Crawl space
Reading · 03 of 05 High risk

Open junction box,
energized 12 AWG.

Crawl space · Residential · 20A circuit

What we see

  • Exposed copper, 12 AWG (likely)
  • Red wire-nut visible — typical of 12 AWG combinations
  • Junction box appears un-grounded
  • Coax cable running adjacent, not bonded
  • 20A breaker visible top-left of frame
  • Metal box, not bonded to ground

Safety flags

  • Exposed energized conductor — HIGH RISK
  • Junction box not properly grounded
  • Coax not bonded to ground per NEC 820.93

What you should do

  • Do not touch. Do not work hot.
  • Cut power at the main breaker
  • Verify with a non-contact voltage tester
  • This is not a DIY fix — 99 times out of 100, call a licensed electrician.
Preliminary range · Labor + parts $280 – $520
Get a real bid

Note. Photo-based identification is illustrative — it's a starting point, not a substitute for an on-site inspection by a licensed electrician in your state. We say that loudly because we mean it.

A short film

"Make it safe first.
Then make it work."

03 — The man this is named after

Richard Ingalls taught his two grandsons the trade.

He spent forty years as a journeyman. Pulled wire through houses that didn't have wire yet. Wired the first restaurants in his town. Came up before GFCIs were code, before AFCIs existed, before half the panel manufacturers he started with had gone out of business.

He had one rule that came before every other rule. Make it safe first. Then make it work. If those two ever got out of order, you weren't an electrician — you were a hazard with a tool belt.

The grandsons started by holding the flashlight. Then pulling wire. Then bending conduit. Then bidding small jobs of their own. Then bigger ones. Then this — a company named for the man who taught them, using every tool he never had, doing the work the way he always insisted it be done.

Three generations. One trade. Ingalls Electric Company · San Diego, CA
→ Read the full story About Richard Ingalls →
04 — What we wire

The work.

From a single dead outlet to a full service upgrade. Residential and light commercial. San Diego County, with crews expanding north. Every job is licensed, bonded, and stands behind a one-year workmanship warranty.

01

Service & panel upgrades

100A → 200A. 200A → 400A. Meter mains, sub-panels, load calculations, utility coordination. If the panel can't keep up with what you're plugging in, this is where it starts.

Available
02

EV charging

Level 2 in your garage. Pedestal stations for small fleets. Load-managed multi-port installs for property managers. We pull the permit, run the conduit, and leave it commissioned.

Available
03

Solar & battery

Inverter swaps, combiner boxes, rapid shutdown retrofits, battery backup tie-ins. We don't sell solar panels — we wire what the solar company left half-finished.

Available
04

Heat pump & HVAC circuits

240V dedicated circuits, disconnects, conduit runs. Most heat pump installs fail at the electrical step. We're the crew the HVAC guys call when their installer can't finish the wiring.

Available
05

Troubleshooting & remediation

Dead circuits. Scorched outlets. Buzzing breakers. Mystery half-power. We trace it, find it, fix it — and document what we found so the next person doesn't have to start over.

Available
06

Light commercial & tenant improvements

Retail buildouts, offices, restaurants, ADUs. Title 24 compliant. We coordinate with GCs and inspectors and run a clean rough-in.

Available
3RD
Generation of Ingalls electricians
3,600+
Jobs bid since 2018
99/100
Times we say "call a licensed electrician"
1YR
Workmanship warranty, every job
05 — Get a bid

Two ways to start.

Send a photo or write out the scope. Either lands with the same person — one of the bidders, on a Monday morning, with their coffee. You get a real number from a real human within 24 hours.

Open the bid form
Service area

San Diego County —
and growing north.

Same-day for emergencies inside the box. 1–3 day scheduling for everything else.

San Diego La Jolla Pacific Beach Encinitas Carlsbad Oceanside Escondido Poway El Cajon Chula Vista Coronado Del Mar Solana Beach Rancho Bernardo Mira Mesa + Orange County (2026) + LA County (2027)