Electricians in Somerville, NJ: Who Actually Holds the License

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The Guide: Electricians in Somerville, 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.

Almost nobody publishes either one in a form you can check. Search for an electrician in Somerville and you will find two dozen companies described as “licensed and insured,” a phrase that costs nothing to write and carries no information at all. 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. Where a company publishes nothing, the guide says that too.

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 Somerville and Hillsborough.

That is the whole test, and it is deliberately a low bar. 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. Six of the companies below hold their state permit at a Somerville address; most of the rest work from Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Branchburg, Hillsborough and Manville and drive in, which for this trade is ordinary rather than a defect.

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. Instead every qualifying company is listed, and the columns report what each one publishes and what the state register returns under its name.

Four businesses that turn up in a search for a Somerville electrician are not in the table, and each is named here with the reason. Spark Electrical Company, on Commerce Street, holds an active Somerville permit but describes itself as a commercial and industrial electrical construction firm and does not offer homeowner work. Paladin Electric holds an active Somerville permit, but its own site would not load and every directory that describes it describes a commercial subcontractor, so we could not confirm it does residential work; if it does, the address at the foot of this page puts it on the table. 24/7 Electric of Green Brook describes commercial and industrial work only. And New Jersey Electric Motors on the Somerville results page is a motor sales and repair shop, not an electrical contractor. One further listing, which publishes no company name, no address and no license number, is left off because we will not print a name we cannot confirm.

Fifty-eight companies meet the test and resolve to an active permit and a named contractor in the state register, and two more are listed by Google as serving Somerville without our being able to find them in the register under the name they use. All sixty are listed alphabetically.

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 Somerville and Hillsborough. 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.

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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.

One company in this guide publishes a Somerville street address — Hockenbury Electric, at 101 Second Street, in business since 1922. Five more hold their state business permit at a Somerville address without publishing a storefront: A & S Services, Ace Electric Services, Ground Breaking Electric, Ken Myers Electric and MAK Electric. The rest work from Bridgewater, Bound Brook, Branchburg, Hillsborough, Manville, Flemington, Warren, Plainfield and further out, and travel in.

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 we are asking every company on this list directly. 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.

Permit numbers, license holders and statuses were verified against the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs licensee register and each company’s own website in September 2026. “Not published” means the company’s website was read and the fact is not on it. “Not found by us” means our search of the register did not resolve it under the name the company uses, and is a statement about our search rather than about the company. “State record” after a town means the address the state holds the permit at, where the company publishes no address of its own.

A Note on Reading the License Columns

Most companies here publish their license in a shortened form — #10011, #9131, #16542, #12101 — 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 or five digits, padded to six, between 34EB and 00), and every one in this table expanded to an active permit under the company’s 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.

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 & S Services Co, Somerville

A & S Services holds its state business permit at a Somerville address on the license of Glenn Sheats; the company publishes no website that we could find, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

A-1 Electric Co, Warren

A-1 Electric describes over thirty years of local experience serving homes and small businesses, publishes its license as NJ Lic. 8460, and lists Tesla, ChargePoint and other car-charger installations among its work.

Ace Electric Services, Somerville

Ace Electric Services holds its Somerville business permit on the license of John A Chiappetta; it publishes no website of its own and appears in the trade directories as a subcontractor as well as in Google’s results for Somerville homeowners.

Active Electric LLC, Hillsborough

Active Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Ryan J Soltis. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

All State Jersey Electric, Lebanon

All State Jersey Electric works from Main Street in Lebanon and advertises a Somerville address, publishing its license as #6978 and serving Hunterdon, Warren and Somerset counties with round-the-clock emergency work, panel upgrades and car chargers. The state holds that permit under the name Jersey Central Electric Inc, on the license of James T Newman.

Ampere Electrical Contractors, Bridgewater

Ampere describes itself as based in Bridgewater with more than twenty-five years of code-compliant electrical work, offers twenty-four-hour emergency service, and lists car chargers and panel upgrades; it publishes neither a street address nor a license number, and the state record supplies both.

ATC Systems Inc, Hillsborough

ATC Systems Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Ruben Cortes, whose own license is registered in Morris Plains. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Banc Electric, Hillsborough

Banc Electric holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Blaine M Banfitch. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Binsky Home Service, Somerset

Binsky is a family-owned mechanical company established in 1938, working from Worlds Fair Drive in Somerset, whose home-service division covers electrical repair, panel upgrades, generators and car chargers alongside its heating, cooling and plumbing work; its site publishes a home improvement registration but not its electrical permit, which the state holds under Binsky & Snyder LLC.

Black Out Electrical, Hillsborough

Black Out Electrical holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Vincent Coscia, Jr, whose own license is registered in Staten Island. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Boro Electric Inc, Hillsborough

Boro Electric Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Steve P Grober. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

BrightView Electric, Manville

BrightView is a Manville electrical contractor offering whole-home generators, smart panel upgrades and car-charging stations across Somerset, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Mercer and Union counties; the state register carries two records under its name, one active at Manville and one expired at Somerset.

BW Electrical Services LLC, Hillsborough

BW Electrical Services LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Edward A Highers Ii, whose own license is registered in West Milford. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Centralized General Construction LLC, Hillsborough

Centralized General Construction LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Daniel Perez. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Circle R Electrical Contractor, Hillsborough

Circle R Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of David C Regiec. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

COM Electrical Contractors Inc, Hillsborough

COM Electrical Contractors Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Arthur J Stainner. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

D & C Electrical Contractors, Somerville

D & C Electrical Contractors is listed as a Somerville electrician with fifteen or more years in business; we could not find a website or a state permit under that name, and we have not yet been able to reach the company.

De Maio Electric Co, Hillsborough

De Maio Electric Co holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Salvatore A De Maio. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

De Witt Van Nest Electrical, Bound Brook

De Witt Van Nest holds an active Bound Brook business permit on the license of Howard S Wagner. The website attached to its Google listing is not the company’s own — it describes a different business in a different state — so nothing on that site is reported here, and the table carries the state record only.

Doyle Electric, Flemington

Doyle Electric is Mike Doyle’s fully insured and bonded contracting business in Flemington, on call around the clock for emergency repairs and standby generators, and publishes its license as #16813.

E Electric

E Electric is listed as serving Somerville; its website did not load and we could not find a state permit under that name, and we have not yet been able to reach the company.

Electrical Concepts Inc, Hillsborough

Electrical Concepts Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Bruce D Lukens Sr. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Electrical Installation AND Design Inc, Hillsborough

Electrical Installation AND Design Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Brian J Baumann, whose own license is registered in Westfield. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

FDC Electrical Contracting LLC, Hillsborough

FDC Electrical Contracting LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Frank D Chupinka. 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 has run his contracting business from East Union Avenue in Bound Brook since 1988, is an authorised Kohler generator dealer, names Bridgewater and Branchburg among the towns he serves, and says plainly that he takes small repairs as well as big jobs.

Fred Giovannucci Electric, Hillsborough

Fred Giovannucci Electric holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Fred Giovannucci. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Gregory T Scurato Electrical Contractor, Hillsborough

Gregory T Scurato Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Gregory T Scurato. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Ground Breaking Electric, Somerville

Ground Breaking Electric holds a Somerville business permit on the license of Benjamin M Nienart of Branchburg; we found no website, and the table carries the state record.

High Line Electric, Bridgewater

High Line is a family-owned contractor on Route 202 in Bridgewater, in business since 2009, offering twenty-four-hour emergency service, panel upgrades and car-charger installation, and publishing both its electrical license and its home improvement registration.

High Quality Electric, Flemington

High Quality Electric names Somerville and Bridgewater among the towns it serves, is a Kohler-certified generator dealer, and describes its owner Bobby White as a New Jersey master electrician — a title the state does not issue; the state register carries him as the licensed electrical contractor of record, Robert T White, which is the credential that counts.

Hockenbury Electric Co, Somerville

Established in 1922 and working from Second Street, Hockenbury is the oldest electrical contractor in this guide and the only one publishing a Somerville storefront; it serves Somerville, Bridgewater, Raritan, Manville and Branchburg and publishes its permit as #10011, held on the license of Jeffrey C Hockenbury.

JDP Electric, Bound Brook

JDP Electric publishes its business permit in full — 34EB01834600 — which is the most complete license disclosure of any company in this guide, and specialises in older homes: code-compliant panel upgrades, Level 2 car chargers and generator interlocks, serving Somerville, Bridgewater, Raritan, Bound Brook and Manville.

JF General & Electrical Contractors, Hillsborough

JF General & Electrical Contractors holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of John Fidziukiewicz. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Ken Myers Electric, Somerville

Ken Myers Electric holds a Somerville business permit on the license of Kenneth Myers; the company publishes no website, and the directories place it on Readington Road in Branchburg.

MAK Electric, Somerville

MAK Electric holds a Somerville business permit on the license of Jay P Makowski; we found no website for the New Jersey company — the site carrying its name belongs to an unrelated Texas contractor — and the table carries the state record.

Marc V Fluet Electrical Contractor, Hillsborough

Marc V Fluet Electrical Contractor holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Mark V Fluet. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

MJD Electric LLC, Hillsborough

MJD Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Michael J Dooley. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Opal Electric Services LLC, Hillsborough

Opal Electric Services LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Edward F Wood Iv, whose own license is registered in Gettysburg. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Paul M. Noll & Son, Hillsborough

Paul M. Noll & Son holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Martin P Noll Jr. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Perfect Circuit Electrical

Perfect Circuit Electrical works from Belle Mead and Somerville, names Bridgewater, Hillsborough and Branchburg among the towns it serves, and is an authorised Kohler generator dealer; it publishes no license number. We first recorded no state permit under this name, which was a fact about our search and not about the company: the register holds the permit as Perfect Circut Electrical LLC — the register’s spelling, missing the second i — active on the license of Kenneth Bender. Corrected September 3, 2026.

Pezz Electrical Services, Hillsborough

Vincent Pezza’s company on Stryker Lane in Hillsborough publishes all three of its state credentials — electrical, heating and cooling, and home improvement — names Somerville and Bridgewater among the towns it serves, takes emergency calls around the clock, and installs standby generators.

Power Electrical & Safety Systems LLC, Hillsborough

Power Electrical & Safety Systems LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Lawrence S Demetris. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Power Plus Electric, Branchburg

Greg McGarry founded Power Plus in 2010 with more than thirty years of trade experience behind him, publishes his license as #16866, and is a Tesla-certified car-charger installer.

Pure Power Electrical Services LLC, Hillsborough

Pure Power Electrical Services LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Richard Michael Dietrich. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

R Dietrich & Son Electrical Contractors, Bound Brook

R Dietrich & Son is a Bound Brook electrician with fifteen or more years in business, and we found no website for it. We first recorded no state permit under that name, which was a fact about our search and not about the company: the register drops the ampersand and holds it as R Dietrich Son El Contrs Inc, active on the license of Richard R Dietrich. Corrected September 3, 2026.

Raymond Penna Electrical Contractor, Hillsborough

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

S&M Landscape Lighting, Hillsborough

S&M Landscape Lighting holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Jonathan R Barmore. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Santonastaso Electric, Hillsborough

Santonastaso Electric holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Vincent P Santonastaso. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Soos Radon & Electric, Hillsborough

Soos Radon & Electric holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of James E Soos, Jr., whose own license is registered in Easton. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Spartan Home Pros, Bridgewater

Spartan runs an electrical and heating-and-cooling operation from offices on Route 22 in Bridgewater and Route 35 in Hazlet, keeps its electricians on payroll rather than subcontracting, answers emergency calls around the clock, and publishes its electrical permit in full; the state holds it under Spartan Home Services LLC.

Spera Electrical Contracting, Hillsborough

Joe Spera’s family-owned company on Ilene Court in Hillsborough has served central New Jersey since 2005, is an Elite Generac generator partner, takes minor home repairs as well as larger work, and publishes its electrical license and home improvement registration.

TED Poecker Electric LLC, Hillsborough

TED Poecker Electric LLC holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Ted W Poecker. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

TOP Line Electric Inc, Hillsborough

TOP Line Electric Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Salvatore M Volpe. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Transform Electric, Bridgewater

Transform Electric holds an active Bridgewater business permit; its website would not load for us, and the state register carries two records under its name, one active at Bridgewater and one expired at Manville.

Tri Starr Electric, Plainfield

Tri Starr works from Plainfield and Oradell across northern and central New Jersey, publishes its license as #18642, runs twenty-four-hour emergency service, and lists car chargers, standby generators and panel installation among its work.

True Blue Electric, Middlesex

True Blue Electric holds a Middlesex business permit on the license of Douglas E. Leigh Jr and publishes on Facebook rather than a website of its own; the table carries the state record.

VAN Hills Electric Inc, Hillsborough

VAN Hills Electric Inc holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Carl Vandermeer. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Victor Paul Holmlund t/a Norseman Co., Hillsborough

Victor Paul Holmlund t/a Norseman Co. holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Victor P Holmlund. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Watts Good Electrical Services, Hillsborough

Watts Good Electrical Services holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Matthew Andrew Kurucz. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

Weston Electrical Service, Hillsborough

Weston Electrical Service holds an active business permit at a Hillsborough address on the license of Kenneth N Ball Jr, whose own license is registered in Flemington. We found no website for the company, so the table carries the state record and nothing else.

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.

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 in Somerville need a permit for the job?

That depends on the job, and it is the borough’s construction office that decides, not us. The office, its phone number and its hours are in the section below. Ask before the work starts; a licensed contractor will already know the answer.

Who Governs Electrical Work in Somerville, NJ

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.

The office above was opened and read on September 2, 2026. Names are published only where the municipality publishes them.

Somerville puts construction, zoning and code enforcement in one Community Development Department and publishes its staff with direct extensions, which is rarer than it should be. Two things on its pages are worth knowing before you call. The borough states the sequence itself — you often need a zoning permit before you can get a construction permit — and the zoning officer is Navleen Sappal at ext. 1981, a different person from the Construction Official. And “Code Enforcement” in Somerville means property maintenance, under the Fire Inspector at a different phone number; in Bridgewater, ten minutes away, the same two words mean the construction permit office. Ask for the Construction Official by title and the phrase stops mattering.

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 Somerville and Hillsborough. A permit pulled in the borough, a completed job, or your business permit will do it. Show us that and you go on the page.

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