Title 24 reports for Sacramento permits.
Sacramento wrote an all-electric mandate, stopped enforcing it in 2023, and formally deleted the chapter effective January 1, 2026 — while its free ADU plans are still published as all-electric and still described as meeting the 2022 code.
The all-electric mandate here was deleted
Sacramento City Code Chapter 15.38 — the city’s CALGreen amendments — required new buildings of three stories or fewer to be all-electric starting January 1, 2023. The city suspended enforcement in April 2023 after the Ninth Circuit’s Berkeley decision, and Ordinance 2025-0031, adopted December 2, 2025, deleted the chapter outright, repealed effective January 1, 2026. There is no local Title 24 Part 6 amendment left: the repealing ordinance touches only the CBC, CPC, CRC, CEBC and CALGreen, and the city is on neither CEC approved-ordinance list. Mixed-fuel design is legal again in Sacramento, whatever 2023-vintage guidance still says. The city’s three free Shelf Ready ADU plans are still posted as all-electric and as meeting the 2022 Residential Building Code, so they still need a fresh compliance run against the 2025 Energy Code.
Sacramento is otherwise unusually legible: a full cycle-time table in working days (CDD-0294, revised 03-04-2026) — residential new buildings and master plans 20/15/5, additions 15/10/5, interior alterations 12/8/5, accessory structures, repairs and garage conversions 10/5/5, and photovoltaic, battery and EV-charging permits at 24 hours — conditioned on complete submittals, and adjustable by the Chief Building Official. It also sells the way around it: expedited review is the plan check fee plus an additional 50%, and every review past the third cycle is billed hourly. So each correction round has a published price. Paper plans are not accepted, residential deferred submittals are not allowed, and the residential take-in sheet states the rule plainly: the energy compliance documents have to be integrated into your plans. Every City of Sacramento ZIP is Climate Zone 12.
One thing that doesn’t change by city: my price and turnaround are flat statewide — $99 first report, $150 flat after, 24–48 hours on your first job. What differs city to city is what happens on the plan-check side before and after the CF1R lands in your permit set, which is what this page covers.
Prices
Flat fees, in writing before I start. No hourly, no bid package, no change-order games — the number on the quote is the number on the invoice.
Your first report with me
One per client, homes under 3,000 square feet. Full energy model, CF1R and CHEERS registration. It’s a test run — send one job and see how it goes.
Every model after the first
The standard rate once you’re a client — the second building, ADU plus main house, the next project that walks in. Back in 3 business days.
Over 3,000 square feet
Quoted from the plans before any work starts, same day.
24×36 plan-sheet set
Your CF1R laid out full size, matched to your drawing set. Comes back as a PDF you drop straight in.
Revisions
Two revisions included, plus questions any time. Past two I quote first, before I touch it.
Commercial / tenant improvement
Send the plans and you’ll have a flat quote back the same day. No deposit, no minimum.
One honest note
I’m not a licensed engineer or architect, and I don’t stamp drawings. On the CF1R I’m the documentation author — you stay the responsible designer. Nothing about your role on the job changes.
That’s on purpose. I’m not after your scope or your clients. I do one piece of the permit set — the piece that usually holds it up — and I do it fast.
Sacramento plan-check questions
If yours isn’t here, see the full FAQ or call and ask.
Does Sacramento still require new buildings to be all-electric?
What does Sacramento’s expedited plan review actually cost?
Plan check came back with an energy comment. Now what?
Forward it to me. If it’s a job I did, the first two revisions are free and I answer the comment directly — you don’t have to translate between your plan checker and me.
If someone else did the original report, I’ll still take it. Send the comment and the existing CF1R and you’ll get a flat quote back the same day.
Does my ADU or addition actually need one?
Almost certainly. New conditioned floor area — ADUs, JADUs, garage conversions, additions — triggers Title 24. So do alterations that touch the envelope, the ductwork, or the HVAC equipment, including a straight change-out. A remodel that only moves non-structural interior partitions usually doesn’t.
Send it either way. If it doesn’t need a report I’ll say so and there’s no charge for the look.
Send your Sacramento plans.
The CF1R comes back as sheets built to drop into the plan set, which is how the city’s own take-in sheet says the energy documents have to arrive.