Building permit leads for electrical contractors
Commercial and residential electrical contractors: full building packages, TI electrical, UPS and backup power, EV charging, solar interconnection, and circuit, panel, and service upgrade volume work. PermitFeed reads every commercial filing across six SoCal counties nightly and scores each one specifically for electrical contractors: your trade’s rubric, your trade’s priorities, delivered with a written outreach angle.
What our Electrical rubric watches for
Every filing is scored against themes that matter to your book of business, not construction size alone.
Recent qualified leads for electrical contractors
Scored 0.5+ for this trade in the last 90 days. Full records include the address, applicant, source portal link, and a written outreach angle.
| Lead | City | Type | Value | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LAX Bradley West Terminal Switchgear Room Addition LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | ADDITION | $35.0M | 0.90 |
| Disneyland Guardians of the Galaxy TI - Electrical LAST NIGHT | Anaheim | TENANT_IMPROVEMENT | · | 0.90 |
| ···· N Eton Ave - 24-Unit Apartment Building Electrical LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | $10.0M | 0.85 |
| The Grove Space 10 Tenant Expansion Electrical LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | TENANT_IMPROVEMENT | $1.9M | 0.85 |
| ···· W Victory Blvd - Commercial TI Electrical LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | TENANT_IMPROVEMENT | $1.4M | 0.85 |
| ···· N Las Palmas Ave: Full Electrical Package LAST NIGHT | Los Angeles | NEW_CONSTRUCTION | · | 0.85 |
What one more electrical package is worth
Back-of-napkin arithmetic, on purpose: your win rate and your margins are yours. The feed’s job is at-bats you would not have seen, weeks earlier than you would have seen them. One landed electrical package tends to settle the question.
Timing is the whole product
The service upgrade is the earliest hard commitment on most projects. Whatever the building is about to become, the panel hears about it first.
How the signal reads for electrical contractors
Every trade's project ends on your panel schedule. Tenant improvements, solar, EV charging, service upgrades in older stock: the permit usually spells out the amperage and scope before the plans are even stamped. And CALGreen plus the electrification ordinances keep writing new work into buildings that thought they were finished. Reading permits is reading your own backlog, early.
Amperage is destiny
Southern California's building stock was wired for a different century, and the code keeps writing new load into it: EV-ready parking counts under CALGreen, heat-pump conversions, solar with storage behind it, ADUs hanging new subpanels off old services. A service upgrade filing is the clearest buy signal in the trade, because nobody upgrades a panel for fun. The permit usually prints the amperage, and the amperage prices the job.
Every other trade files your lead
An HVAC swap needs circuits and disconnects. A monument sign needs a dedicated feed. A commercial array lands on the service side. Reading cross-trade is how an electrical estimator front-runs the sub bid, and this feed was built for exactly that read: seventeen other scoring lenses, every one of them upstream of a panel schedule, visible from one account.
The scale behind that: 27,827 filings tracked across six Southern California counties in the last twelve months, carrying $2.3B in declared construction value, every one read against a rubric written for electrical contractors. The handful that belong in your pipeline surface. The rest sink.
The national construction-data platforms aggregate these same public records on a slower cycle, fold them into fifty states of noise, and price by custom quote. We collect from the source portals every night, read SoCal only, score for electrical contractors specifically, and post our prices: $59 to $499 a month, cancel from your own account page.
Field notes for electrical contractors
- Seventy-five days on the letter, seventeen in escrow: who decides your panel comes outA California underwriting table nobody voted on made four panel brands ineligible, and the notice period behind it is set by statute. The sale runs on
- Thirty business days, or a hundred and twenty-five: the service upgrade you quoted by reflexThe 2023 NEC added a way to size a service against the setpoint of a controlled load, and California got it on January 1, 2026. The older method, 220.
- 563 calendar days on SCE's own numbers: who really sequences a service upgradeSCE told the CPUC that its completed EV infrastructure projects averaged 563 calendar days end to end, and that the number got worse by 40 calendar da
Three patterns that keep paying
The service upgrade
Nobody moves from 400 to 1200 amps for fun. An upgrade filing is capacity being bought for a reason, and the reason is your next conversation.
EV-ready parking
New commercial parking carries EV-capable counts under CALGreen, and retrofits keep landing as tenant demands rise. The circuits, conduit, and switchgear are the contract.
The cross-trade rider
HVAC swaps need circuits, signs need feeds, solar needs the service side. Every other trade's filing carries an electrical line item that has no bidder yet.