Electricians in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville and the Somerset Hills, NJ: Who Actually Holds the License

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The Guide: Electricians in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville and the Somerset Hills, NJ

New Jersey licenses electrical work twice over. The company that wires your panel, hangs your fixtures or installs your car charger has to hold a business permit from the State Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, and that permit is issued on the license of a named person — the licensed electrical contractor of record — whose name, number and status sit in the state register for anyone to look up in about ninety seconds.

Thirty-one companies do residential electrical work in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills and Peapack-Gladstone. Eight of them publish a license number anywhere at all. Twenty-one have no website we could find. That is not a criticism of the trade — a two-van electrical company in Far Hills has no particular reason to keep a website — but it does mean the state register is the only public record of who is licensed here, and almost nobody reads it. This guide reports, for every company, exactly what it publishes about its own license and exactly what the state record says: both numbers, and the person behind them.

How We Selected These Companies

A company appears here if it does residential electrical work — wiring, panels, service upgrades, lighting, generators, car chargers, repairs — for homeowners in Bernardsville, Bernards Township (Basking Ridge, Liberty Corner, Lyons), Far Hills, Bedminster (Pluckemin) or Peapack-Gladstone.

In practice that means one of two things. Either the state holds an active electrical business permit for the company at an address in those towns — twenty-four companies here do — or the company works from further out and names one of these towns as an area it serves. Electrical work travels to the customer, so where a company keeps its office is a fact in the table rather than a reason to leave it out.

The license is not the gate. It is the first column. Making it a condition of entry would delete companies from the page on the strength of what their websites do not say, and this market shows exactly why that would be wrong: two thirds of these companies say nothing at all, and they are licensed all the same.

Where we cannot tell, we say so rather than guess. Twenty-one of the companies below publish no website we could find, so we cannot tell you from their own words whether they will take a small repair call or only quote larger work. What we can tell you is that the state holds an active permit in their name and who it is issued on. If you run one of these companies and want more than the state record on this page, the address at the foot of it is all it takes.

Several companies that turn up in a search for an electrician in these towns are not in the table, and they are named here with the reason. Jason Klein Electrical Contractor (Chatham), Tri Starr Electric (Plainfield) and JDP Electric (Bound Brook) all hold active permits and all publish service areas that do not name a town in this guide. BrightView Electric (Hillsborough) names Somerset County but no town in it. Tower Electrical Contracting and Atlantic Electric both work from Berkeley Heights, over the Union County line, and we could not confirm from either that it serves these towns. Al Pepe & Sons of Stirling appears in local results, and we could not find an active permit under that name. Any of them can be on the table tomorrow — a service-area page naming one of these towns is enough.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Companies appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they do residential electrical work for homeowners in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills or Peapack-Gladstone. That is a test, not a judgment, and it is the only route onto this page. No company can pay to be included in this guide, to be listed higher, or to change what the comparison table says about it. Companies are listed alphabetically, and every detail in the table was verified against each company’s own website and against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register — both the business search and the person search — in September 2026.

Everything under the heading that begins this guide is governed by the rules above, on every guide we publish. Where a sponsor’s message appears above that heading, it is paid for and labelled, and it buys nothing in the guide. Garden State Circle is supported by the businesses that participate in it. Participation pays for our ongoing work: keeping a business’s entry accurate, re-checking its record, and publishing a page of its own details that the business maintains. There is no paid placement in this guide. Participation does not buy a place here, a position here, or anything the comparison table says. Every detail here was verified on the date shown on this page.

Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Bernardsville, Bernards Township (Basking Ridge, Liberty Corner, Lyons), Far Hills, Bedminster (Pluckemin) and Peapack-Gladstone. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

Which of These Companies Is Actually Nearby

Most homeowners asking whether an electrician is “local” are really asking one question: will they come out for my small job? That is worth separating from geography, because the two are not the same thing.

Twenty-four of the companies here hold their state business permit at an address inside the guide’s towns. Basking Ridge alone accounts for ten of them, which is more than Bernardsville, Bedminster and Far Hills put together; Bernardsville and Bedminster carry four each, Far Hills three, and Peapack-Gladstone three between the two village addresses. The rest work in from Warren, Bound Brook and Bridgewater, all within a short drive.

It is worth knowing how small this market is by the numbers. The same five-municipality sweep across Bridgewater, Martinsville, Bound Brook, Branchburg and Hillsborough returned eighty-seven in-market permits; here it returns twenty-four. These are small boroughs, and the register reflects that. It also means a homeowner in Far Hills or Peapack is choosing from a genuinely short list of companies actually based nearby, and that the ones who drive in matter more than they would in a denser market.

On the second question — whether a company will take a single repair call rather than only quoting projects — the table reports what each company says on its own site, and for most of this market the honest answer is that it says nothing. We are asking every company on this list directly, and their answers will be published here as they come in.

The Companies, Compared

Listed alphabetically. The three right-hand columns are three different things and the difference is the point: the first reports what the company puts on its own website, the second is the business permit the state holds under the company’s name, and the third is the person the state issued that permit on.

State register checked September 3, 2026, in both the business search and the person search at the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs.

A Note on Reading the License Columns

Eight companies here publish a license number, most of them in a shortened form — #16876, #16518, #10968, #9131, #8460, EB13606 — which cannot be typed into the state lookup and returned. Each one expands to the full twelve-character business permit in the middle column (the four, five or six digits, padded to six, between 34EB and 00), and every one of them expanded to an active permit under the company’s own name.

The two state numbers are two different things. The business permit, beginning 34EB, belongs to the company. The electrical contractor license, beginning 34EI, belongs to a person, and the state issues the company’s permit on that person’s license — which is why the two share their digits, and why the right-hand column is a name rather than a number. A company can hold a permit only through a licensed contractor, and one licensed contractor can qualify only one company. All twenty-eight permits in this table resolved to a named, active contractor of record.

In twenty-seven of those twenty-eight the contractor of record is the person you would expect — the owner, or someone sharing the company’s name. In one, Frank R Holtaway & Son, the permit is issued on the license of Robert J Mason. There is nothing irregular in that. The license is a person’s qualification, the permit is the company’s, and the person holding one for the other does not have to be the family the company is named after. It is worth showing precisely because a homeowner checking the register would otherwise think they had found the wrong record.

Two things about searching the register yourself are worth knowing, because both cost us time in this market. The name search matches the opening words of a registered name only — searching Holtaway returns nothing, while Frank R Holtaway returns the company. And the domain that looks like a company’s is often somebody else’s. Three times on this page — KC Electric, Eastern Power & Lighting and UV Electric — the obvious web address belonged to a different company in South Jersey, North Bergen and Denver, Colorado respectively. Where that happened we used the state record only and said so in the entry.

It is also worth separating two credentials that look alike. A number beginning 13VH is a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration, and one beginning 19HC is a heating and cooling license. Both are real and neither tells you who holds the electrical license behind the work. And New Jersey has no “master electrician” license: the state licenses electrical contractors and registers journeymen. Where a company describes its owner as a master electrician, that is the company’s own phrase.

The Companies

A-1 Electric Co, Warren

A-1 Electric works from Warren, immediately over the Bernards Township line, describes more than thirty years serving homes and small businesses, publishes its license as “NJ Lic. 8460,” and lists Tesla and ChargePoint car-charger work. Its site links a service-area page that names no towns, so it is here on premises rather than on a stated service area. The permit is active on the license of Paul W Hampton.

Anthony De Vergillo Electrical Contractor, Bedminster

Anthony De Vergillo Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Bedminster address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Anthony Novella Electrical Contractors, Peapack

Anthony Novella Electrical Contractors holds an active business permit at a Peapack address on the license of Anthony P Novella. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

August Electric LLC, Far Hills

August Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Far Hills address on the license of David E Trucks. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

B&R Electric LLC, Far Hills

B&R Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Far Hills address on the license of Robert J Colomban. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Basking Ridge Electric

Basking Ridge Electric is listed as a Basking Ridge electrician with fifteen or more years in business and answers a working phone. We could not find an active business permit under this name in the state register, and we found no website for the company beyond a social page. That is a fact about our search and not a statement about the company; we have written to ask what name the permit is held under, and the row is filled the day we hear back.

Bernardsville Electric

Bernardsville Electric is listed as a Bernardsville electrician with fifteen or more years in business. We could not find an active business permit under this name in the state register, and we found no website for the company. As above, that is a fact about our search rather than about the company, and the invitation to correct it stands.

Brett Wyatt Electric LLC, Far Hills

Brett Wyatt Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Far Hills address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Catalano Electrical Contracting LLC, Basking Ridge

Catalano Electrical Contracting LLC holds an active business permit at a Basking Ridge address on the license of Mark Catalano. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Curt B Gerhard Electrical Contractor LLC, Basking Ridge

Curt B Gerhard Electrical Contractor works from Acken Road in Basking Ridge and is one of the older independent operators in the township. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record: an active business permit on his own license.

Dorrman Electric LLC, Basking Ridge

Dorrman Electric works from Basking Ridge across central and northern New Jersey and publishes its license as “N.J. License # 16876,” which expands to an active business permit on the license of Douglas J Dorrman. It is one of eight companies on this page that publish a number at all.

Eastern Power & Lighting Electrical Co, Gladstone

Eastern Power & Lighting Electrical Co holds an active business permit at a Gladstone address on the license of Nick Vespa. The domain closest to its name belongs to a different company in North Bergen, so we have not used it; the table carries the state record only.

EMR Facility Management LLC, Bernardsville

EMR Facility Management LLC holds an active business permit at a Bernardsville address on the license of Damian Z Rogich. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Frank Mineo Electrical Contractor, Bound Brook

Frank Mineo Electrical Contractor has worked from Union Avenue in Bound Brook since 1988, names Basking Ridge among the towns it serves, publishes its license as “License #9131,” and says it takes small repair work as well as installations. The permit is active on the license of Frank Mineo.

Frank R Holtaway & Son, Bernardsville

Frank R Holtaway & Son holds an active business permit at a Bernardsville address. The license it is issued on belongs to Robert J Mason, whose own license is registered in Wantage — the one company on this page whose contractor of record does not share its name. That is ordinary and worth explaining: a New Jersey electrical company holds its permit through a licensed contractor, and that person need not be the founder whose name is over the door. We found no website for the company. Searching the register for Holtaway alone returns nothing; the record only appears under the full opening words of the name.

Fresella Electric, Bernardsville

Fresella Electric has been in business since 1957, is now run by a third generation of the family, and names Bernardsville, Basking Ridge, Bedminster, Peapack and Gladstone among the towns it serves. Its website publishes the license as “NJ LICENSE / BUSINESS PERMIT #7374” and a Bernardsville post-office box; the state holds the company’s active business permit at a Bridgewater address on the license of Daniel J Fresella, and that is the record in the table.

Glenn Miller Electric, Gladstone

Glenn Miller Electric works from Lackawanna Avenue in Gladstone and is the only company on this page that names the Somerset Hills as its service area in those words. It publishes its number as “NJ Permit and License Number: EB13606,” which expands to an active business permit on the license of Glenn D Miller.

GoGo Generator LLC, Bedminster

GoGo Generator holds an active business permit at a Bedminster address on the license of Christopher J Nieliwocki. Its website describes standby generator work from inception to completion and publishes no license number and no towns.

John W Grabowski Jr Electrical Services, Bedminster

John W Grabowski Jr Electrical Services holds an active business permit at a Bedminster address on his own license. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

KC Electric, Bernardsville

KC Electric holds an active business permit at a Bernardsville address on the license of Kenneth G Cirincione. The site at the domain closest to its name belongs to a different KC Electric — a South Jersey company publishing a different license number and a 856 telephone code — so we have not used it. The table carries the state record only.

LIT Technologies Electric & Data LLC, Basking Ridge

LIT Technologies Electric & Data LLC holds an active business permit at a Basking Ridge address on the license of Jeffrey M Holota. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Meininger Electric Inc, Basking Ridge

Meininger Electric works from Overlook Avenue in Basking Ridge and holds one of the oldest permit numbers on this page. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record: an active business permit on the license of Glenn M Meininger.

Power Electrical Contracting LLC, Basking Ridge

Power Electrical Contracting LLC holds an active business permit at a Basking Ridge address on the license of Steven R Breheny. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Power Tech Electrical Contracting LLC, Bedminster

Power Tech Electrical Contracting LLC holds an active business permit at a Bedminster address on the license of Gregory J Cardillo. The company keeps a social page rather than a website, and the closest matching domain belongs to a differently named company, so the table carries the state record only.

R L Electrical Contractor, Basking Ridge

R L Electrical Contractors works from Basking Ridge and Madison, names Stirling, Basking Ridge, Madison and Chatham among the towns it serves, and publishes its license as “License #10968.” That expands to an active business permit on the license of Robert Gottardo.

R Menzel Electrical Contractor, Basking Ridge

R Menzel Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Basking Ridge address on the license of Raymond G Menzel. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

SA Electrical Construction LLC, Basking Ridge

SA Electrical Construction has worked from Basking Ridge since 2009, names Basking Ridge and Bernards among the towns it serves, offers round-the-clock service, and publishes its license as “NJ License 16518.” That expands to an active business permit on the license of Thomas A Sa.

Spartan Home Pros, Bridgewater

Spartan Home Pros works from Route 22 in Bridgewater, names Basking Ridge, Bedminster (Pluckemin) and Peapack-Gladstone among more than thirty towns it serves, and is one of very few companies in any of our markets to publish its license in the full twelve-character form the state uses. The permit is held under the registered name Spartan Home Services LLC dba Spartan Home Pros, on the license of Charles Z Hauser.

Stage Light Electric LLC, Bernardsville

Stage Light Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Bernardsville address on the license of William Charles Hagen, and appears on homeowner platforms rather than on a site of its own. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

T Wolsky Electric Inc, Basking Ridge

T. Wolsky Electric works from Basking Ridge and the surrounding area and holds the oldest permit number on this page. Its website publishes no license number; the state holds an active business permit on the license of Thomas S Wolsky.

UV Electric LLC, Bedminster

UV Electric LLC is listed as a Bedminster electrician. We could not find a business permit under this name in the state register — a fact about our search, not about the company — and the domain closest to its name belongs to an electrical contractor in Denver, Colorado, so we have not used it. If the company writes in with the name its permit is held under, the row is filled the same day.

Common Questions

How do I check whether a New Jersey electrician is licensed?

Go to the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs license verification system at newjersey.mylicense.com and run two searches. In the Business Search, set the profession to Electrical Contractors and the license type to Electrical Business Permit, and search by company name or town; the result gives you the company’s permit number and whether it is active. Then take the six digits in the middle of that number, switch to the Person Search, set the license type to Electrical Contractor, and search by license number 34EI followed by those digits and 00; the result gives you the name of the licensed contractor the permit was issued on, and whether their license is active. Both searches are free and take about a minute together.

The register returns nothing for the company I am looking at. What does that mean?

Usually that the name you typed is not the name the state holds. The register stores the registered legal name, which is often not the name on the van — it drops ampersands, abbreviates words, and in this and neighbouring markets contains outright spelling mistakes. It also matches on the opening words of a name rather than anywhere inside it. Try the shortest distinctive opening words of the company name, and try the owner’s surname in the person search. A company you cannot find is not the same thing as a company that is not licensed.

What is the difference between the license and the business permit?

The electrical contractor license is issued to a person who has passed the state examination, and the business permit is issued to a company on that person’s license. New Jersey requires an electrical contracting company to hold both. The person is the qualifier; the company cannot operate without one, and one licensed contractor can qualify only one company at a time.

Does New Jersey license journeyman electricians?

No. New Jersey registers journeyman electricians and apprentices through the same board, and licenses electrical contractors. A journeyman on the job is registered, not licensed, and the license behind the work belongs to the contractor of record in the table above. The state does not issue a “master electrician” credential at all.

Is a 13VH number the same thing?

No. A number beginning 13VH is a New Jersey Home Improvement Contractor registration. It is a real credential and worth having, but it is a different regime from the electrical license and it does not tell you who holds the electrical license behind the work.

Does an electrician here need a permit for the job?

That depends on the job, and it is your own municipality’s construction office that decides, not us. Each of the five offices covering this guide, with its phone number and hours, is in the section below. Ask before the work starts; a licensed contractor will already know the answer.

Who Governs Electrical Work in the Somerset Hills

Electrical work in New Jersey answers to two state agencies with confusingly similar names, and they do different things. The license belongs to the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, part of the Division of Consumer Affairs — (973) 504-6410 — which issues the electrical contractor license and the business permit in the table above and runs the searches described in the questions above. The permit for the job belongs to the Uniform Construction Code, N.J.A.C. 5:23, written by the Department of Community Affairs, Division of Codes and Standards — (609) 292-7899 — and enforced by each municipality’s own construction office, listed below. New Jersey adopted new editions of its construction subcodes on August 17, 2026; the electrical subcode is the National Electrical Code, NFPA 70, 2023 edition (N.J.A.C. 5:23-3.16) — the one subcode in the set that is not a 2024 code — per the Division’s current-codes table, read September 2, 2026.

All five offices were opened and read on September 3, 2026. Names are published only where the municipality publishes them.

Three things about these five offices are worth knowing before you call. Every one of them publishes the name of its construction official — which sounds unremarkable until you compare it with the Bridgewater market next door, where two of the four offices publish no name at all. In the Somerset Hills you can ask for a person. Two of the five are effectively appointment-only. Far Hills publishes no regular hours for the construction department, and Peapack-Gladstone’s construction official keeps two afternoon windows a week, Tuesday and Thursday, by appointment. Neither is a small borough being difficult; it is what a part-time office looks like, and it means walking in unannounced is not the plan. And Bernards Township closes at three. The Construction Code Division works 7:00am to 3:00pm and applications have to be in before three — the earliest close of any office in this programme. A homeowner who rings at four in Basking Ridge has missed the day, and does not find that out until the next morning.

Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Whether a particular job needs a permit is interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what each municipality published, with the date we checked it — confirm with the office before you rely on it, and if any of it has changed, the correction address at the foot of this page is the fastest way to tell us.

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Something out of date?

This guide is maintained. If anything here is wrong or has changed — a name, an address, a permit number, or whether a business has closed — tell us and we will check it. Businesses listed here are welcome to write in directly, and a company that publishes a license number we have recorded as absent, or that we could not find in the register under the name it uses, is exactly the kind of correction we want.

And if you run an electrical company that should be on this list and is not, write to us. We would rather be told than be incomplete. The test is the same one every company here cleared: that you do residential electrical work for homeowners in Basking Ridge, Bernardsville, Bedminster, Far Hills or Peapack-Gladstone. A permit pulled in one of those municipalities, a completed job, or your business permit will do it. Show us that and you go on the page.

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