Electricians in Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, NJ

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The Guide: Electricians in Franklin Township, Manville and North Plainfield, NJ

New Jersey licenses electrical work twice over, and the two numbers are not the same thing. A business permit lets a company hold itself out and take contracts. A licensed electrical contractor of record is the named individual that permit is qualified by. Both are held with the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, both are searchable by anyone, and this guide reports both for every company on it.

Thirty-eight electrical companies are registered at addresses inside these four towns. Four of them publish a license number anywhere on the internet. That gap is the reason this page exists.

How We Selected These Companies

This guide covers four municipalities: Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook, all in Somerset County.

A company appears here if it holds an active New Jersey electrical business permit at an address inside one of those towns, or if it names one of them as a place it works on its own website.

Franklin Township is the complicated one, and it is worth a paragraph. It is the largest municipality in Somerset County by area and it has no single downtown. It is a collection of villages — Somerset, Franklin Park, Middlebush, East Millstone, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills, Zarephath, Six Mile Run, Franklin Center and part of Kingston — and most addresses inside it carry the postal name Somerset rather than Franklin. An electrician whose van says Somerset is very likely a Franklin Township electrician. When we searched the state licensing record village by village, every company in the township filed under either Somerset or Franklin Park; the other village names return nothing at all.

Two more names that catch people out. There is a Franklin Township in Hunterdon County as well as this one, and their municipal websites differ by three letters. And East Millstone, a village inside Franklin Township, is not Millstone Borough and not Millstone Township in Monmouth County. Every company and every municipal record on this page was checked against which one was meant.

Thirty-eight companies meet the test. They are listed alphabetically, and the table is the whole record for most of them.

What This Market Looks Like

Four companies in thirty-eight publish their license number. The other thirty-four are real, active, licensed businesses with no website we could find. They hold current state permits, each one qualified by a named individual, and several have held them for decades.

This is worth understanding before you start calling. If you search for an electrician in Somerset or Manville, the companies you will find are not the best ones or the nearest ones — they are the ones with marketing. The list below is drawn from the state licensing record instead, so it includes the thirty-four you would otherwise never see.

About This Guide

This guide is produced by Garden State Circle. Companies appear here because they meet the criterion described above — they hold an active state electrical permit at an address in these towns, or they say they work here. 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 the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee record, and against each company’s own website where one exists, 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.

Garden State Circle is published in New Jersey by Tiffany and Jake Slowinski and covers Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook. Contact the publisher at jake@gardenstatecircle.com. How every guide is made, in one place: how every guide is made.

The Companies, Compared

Listed alphabetically. Verified September 2026.

Checked against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs Electrical Contractors licensee search.

A Note on Reading the License Columns

New Jersey issues two different electrical credentials and they answer two different questions.

The business permit — a number beginning 34EB — belongs to the company. It is what allows a business to advertise, contract and pull permits.

The licensed electrical contractor of record — a number beginning 34EI — belongs to a named person. Every business permit is qualified by one. The two numbers share their last eight digits, which is why a company that publishes one of them has effectively published both. One company on this page publishes the 34EI rather than the 34EB — that is the individual’s license, and it resolves to the same eight digits.

New Jersey registers journeyman electricians and licenses contractors. “Master electrician” is not a New Jersey credential; where a company uses the phrase, that is the company’s word and not ours.

The columns report state licensure on the date shown, and nothing else. They are not a rating, not a measure of quality, and not a statement about insurance. No website found means we searched and did not find a site. Not published means the company has a site and the number is not on it. Neither is a statement about the business, and every company carrying either holds the same active state permit as everyone else on this page.

The Companies

Four companies here publish a license number. For most of the rest, the table above is the complete published record — there is no website, no service-area page and no number to report, and we would rather say so than pad the page.

BOLD Electric LLC

BOLD Electric is at 624 Somerset Street in North Plainfield and publishes one of the most detailed service-area lists we have read in this county — more than forty towns named individually, from North Plainfield and Warren out to Summit, Morristown and Westfield. It publishes NJ Electrical License 15576, which resolves in the state record to an active business permit qualified by Vincent J Battista.

Franklin Electric Maintenance Company Inc

Franklin Electric Maintenance works from 602 Hamilton Street in the Somerset section of Franklin Township and publishes NJ Electrical License #18219, which resolves to an active business permit qualified by Patrick A Gianotto. It describes work across central New Jersey rather than a named list of towns.

RPL Electrical Contractors LLC

RPL Electrical works from Manville and covers Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Morris, Union and Mercer counties. It publishes the contractor’s license rather than the business permit — NJ License 34EI01748900, in the full twelve-character state format — which belongs to Ryan P Lipot and shares its digits with the company’s active business permit.

Warrenville Electrical

Warrenville Electrical is at 22 Howard Street in North Plainfield and publishes NJ Business Permit & License #15840 along with a New York license for Orange County. The state record carries the permit under the name Warrenville Contracting LLC — the same company, registered under a different name from the one it trades under, which is ordinary and worth knowing if you go looking for it yourself. It is active and qualified by Peter Skorupski.

Dolan Inc

Dolan — long known here as Jack Dolan & Sons, on Franklin Boulevard since 1949 — holds an active electrical business permit alongside its plumbing license, qualified by Kevin R Wuelfing. Its site publishes the plumbing number and not the electrical one.

Common Questions

My address says Somerset. Which town do I actually live in?
Somerset is a postal name, not a municipality. If your mail says Somerset, NJ 08873, you almost certainly live in Franklin Township, and Franklin Township is who issues your electrical permit and sends your inspector. The same is true of Franklin Park, Middlebush, East Millstone, Griggstown, Blackwells Mills and Zarephath. It matters when you are pulling a permit and when you are checking whether a contractor actually covers you.

What is the difference between the two license numbers?
One belongs to the company and one belongs to a person. The business permit (34EB) lets a company advertise and take contracts. The contractor of record (34EI) is the named individual who qualifies that permit. They share their last eight digits. A company that gives you one has given you both.

Thirty-four of these companies have no website. Should that worry me?
No. Every company on this page holds a current, active state electrical business permit qualified by a named licensed contractor — that is the same standard for all thirty-eight, website or not. Ask any of them for the number and check it yourself against the state register; it takes about a minute.

How do I check a number myself?
The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs publishes a licensee verification search that is free and open to the public. Search the business permit number and the record returns the company, the status and the named contractor of record. A number that returns nothing, or returns a different company, is worth a question — though bear in mind that a company may be registered under a different name from the one on its van, as one on this page is.

Who inspects electrical work in these towns?
Each of the four runs its own construction office. Manville and North Plainfield each publish an electrical subcode official by name. All four are listed below.

Who Governs Electrical Work in Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield and South Bound Brook, NJ

Two state agencies sit behind residential electrical work in New Jersey. The Division of Consumer Affairs, through the Board of Examiners of Electrical Contractors, issues the business permit and the contractor license in this guide’s table. The Department of Community Affairs, Division of Codes and Standards administers the Uniform Construction Code, whose electrical subcode governs the work itself. New Jersey adopted the 2024 editions of the model codes on August 17, 2026, according to the Division’s current codes table.

Permits and inspections are municipal.

Offices read September 4, 2026.

Several of these officials serve more than one town. Dan Niro is also the Construction Official for the Borough of Watchung; Frank LaGuarina is also Green Brook Township’s Construction Official; and Mike Krupsky is also Montgomery Township’s Construction Official. If the counter is closed when you call, that is usually why — ring ahead rather than driving over. Franklin Township publishes an office, an address and a phone number but no names.

Fee schedules are adopted by ordinance and change. Requirements are interpreted by the town’s own construction office, not by us. We publish what each municipality published, with the date we checked it — confirm before you rely on it.

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Something out of date?

Things change. A permit is renewed under a different holder, a company moves, a phone number is retired, a business closes or opens a new office.

If anything on this page is wrong, tell us and we will fix it. Email admin@gardenstatecircle.com. Corrections are made whether or not a business participates in Garden State Circle, and there is no charge for one.

If you are one of the thirty-four companies here with no website, and you would like your entry to say more than the state record does, email the same address. Adding a service area, hours or a license number to your row costs nothing and is not participation.

If your electrical company is not on this page and you believe it should be, email the same address. The test is the one described at the top: an active New Jersey electrical business permit at an address in Franklin Township (Somerset), Manville, North Plainfield or South Bound Brook, or a published statement that you work here.

Additional Resources

NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license verification

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