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Title: Pelican Coast Electric Offers Free Panel Evaluations to Owners of Older Orange County Homes

Newport Beach, California, United States, 15th Oct 2026 -  Pelican Coast Electric, a licensed electrical contractor in Newport Beach, offers free on-site electrical panel evaluations to homeowners across Orange County. The company focuses on older homes where the original panel is still in service, and every homeowner gets a written estimate before any work starts."Most people don't know what's in their panel until something goes wrong," said Austin Torres, owner of Pelican Coast Electric. "We look at it, tell you what you have and tell you whether it needs work. If it doesn't, we say so."What the evaluation coversA Pelican Coast Electric electrician reads the panel label, checks the panel's condition and confirms whether the service has room for new loads such as an EV charger or a heat pump. The homeowner leaves with a clear answer: keep the panel, upgrade it or replace it.The company serves homeowners and businesses across Orange County and San Bernardino County from its office on West Coast Highway in Newport Beach. Its crews also install whole-home standby generators and EV chargers and provide 24/7 emergency electrical service.Where older panels are most commonMuch of Orange County's housing is old enough to still have its original electrical panel. According to the Census Bureau's 2024 American Community Survey, 651,037 of the county's 1,146,169 housing units went up before 1980, and the median year built is 1977. The share runs higher in the cities that filled in first: 82% in Fountain Valley, 74% in Santa Ana, 69% in Huntington Beach and 68% in Costa Mesa. In Newport Beach it's 55%.Plenty of those original panels have been replaced during remodels and sales. The only way to know about a specific house is to read the label."Open the panel door and read the...

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