Installer profile
Occidental Power
The paperwork side is old and clean. The exact CSLB entity is Oxypower Inc, doing business as Occidental Power Solar & Cogen, license 591549, a current and active corporation with B General Building, C-46 Solar, and C-10 Electrical classifications. The license issued March 30, 1990, was reissued to another entity on June 10, 2009, and expires June 30, 2027. The company says it opened its doors in 1989 and calls itself the longest running San Francisco solar and energy-storage company; the state record starts about a year after that claim. Gregory Jon Kennedy is the qualifying individual and a 10 percent or more owner, and no publicly disclosable CSLB action appeared on the record when it was read.
The review record is where this gets complicated, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. BBB rates the company A+ and Yelp shows 4.3 stars across 34 reviews. But SolarReviews carries two detailed negatives that are hard to wave off: a February 2023 review alleging a roughly $25,000 battery backup that failed during outages, went offline at least 6 times, tripped GFCI in a way that indicated improper wiring, had not passed city inspection, and an owner who refused responsibility; and a February 2022 review alleging an undisclosed add-on cost for an electrical contractor, plan switches without discussion, and zero project management. These are individual consumer allegations, not adjudicated findings. Still, they are specific, recent, and about the exact work a storage buyer would hire this company to do.
Two more gaps hold the grade down. No workmanship or labor warranty term is published anywhere on the company site; the home and about pages state none, and a targeted search found none. And Occidental appears in none of the three Solar Power World lists reviewed, so installation volume rests entirely on the company's own history. A 36-year license is genuinely rare and worth something. If you want this bid, make them put the workmanship warranty in writing with a named obligor, and ask directly how they handle battery commissioning and post-install service, because that is where the documented complaints live.
The evidence
CSLB issued license 591549 on March 30, 1990, with a reissue to another entity on June 10, 2009 noted in the record, while the company says it opened in 1989 and BBB records a business start of March 30, 1990, so the founding claim predates the license by under a year.
Source: CSLB license 591549
No complaint disclosure link displayed on license 591549 when read on August 26, 2026, which means nothing publicly disclosable rather than no complaint ever, and BBB rates the company A+ with no published complaint count, but SolarReviews carries detailed 2022 and 2023 reviews alleging a failed battery backup, GFCI trips indicating improper wiring, an install that had not passed city inspection, undisclosed add-on costs, and poor project management, all consumer allegations rather than adjudicated findings.
Occidental Power is absent from the populated 2026 Top Solar Contractors table (388 entries), the 2025 Top California Solar Contractors table (88 entries), and the 2026 Top Solar Installers table (197 entries), so no independent megawatt total or project count verifies installation scale in this evidence set.
CSLB lists Oxypower Inc, doing business as Occidental Power Solar & Cogen, as a current and active corporation with B, C-46, and C-10 classifications under license 591549 expiring June 30, 2027, backed by a $25,000 contractor bond, a separate $25,000 bond of qualifying individual for Keith Alan Burkland, and State Compensation Insurance Fund workers comp running through January 1, 2027.
Source: CSLB license 591549
No company workmanship or labor warranty term is published on the fetched home and about pages, and a targeted warranty search surfaced nothing for this company, so any coverage promise exists only in whatever contract a customer signs, which is exactly why the warranty document needs to be in hand before signing.
Source: Occidental Power about page
Company facts
| CSLB entity | Oxypower Inc, doing business as Occidental Power Solar & Cogen, Corporation |
| CSLB license | 591549, B General Building | C-46 Solar | C-10 Electrical, current and active; issued March 30, 1990; reissued June 10, 2009; expires June 30, 2027 |
| Address | 5982 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94112 |
| Contractor bond | American Contractors Indemnity Company, bond 100959636, $25,000; effective June 10, 2025 |
| Bond of qualifying individual | Bond 100676570 for Keith Alan Burkland, $25,000, American Contractors Indemnity Company; effective January 1, 2023 |
| Workers compensation | State Compensation Insurance Fund, policy 9202239; January 1, 2017 to January 1, 2027 |
| Qualifying individual | Gregory Jon Kennedy, certified 10 percent or more ownership, effective June 10, 2009 |
| Company founding claim | 1989 per the company; license issued March 30, 1990 |
| Workmanship warranty | No published terms found on the pages read |
| Stated service area | San Francisco Bay Area and greater Bay Area; residential and commercial solar electric, solar hot water, battery storage, and maintenance, repair, and reroof reinstallation |
Data pulled August 26, 2026 from CSLB license 591549, Occidental Power homepage, Occidental Power about page, BBB profile, SolarReviews, Yelp and Solar Power World 2026 Top Solar Contractors.
How to read this
Read this C as a split verdict, not a warning label. The state record is one of the longest and cleanest in this research set, and nothing in it suggests a license problem. The grade sits where it does because the two things a buyer leans on hardest, a written workmanship warranty and a believable service record on batteries, are respectively absent and contested. Both are checkable in one meeting: ask for the warranty document, and ask them to walk you through what happened on the 2022 and 2023 jobs described on SolarReviews. Our full rubric, including how our own installation business gets graded on the same scale, is on the methodology page. We are a solar installer and we partner with other solar companies. Grading is structurally separated from revenue; see disclosures.