Electricians in Warren, Watchung and Green Brook, NJ

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Hiring an Electrician in New Jersey: What I’d Want to Know Before Someone Starts Opening My Walls

By Tiffany Slowinski

There are certain home projects I am perfectly willing to fake my way through.

Electrical work is not one of them.

If a light fixture needs to be changed, an outlet suddenly stops working or half the kitchen goes dark every time someone uses the toaster and the air fryer at the same time, I do not want to become an electrician. I want to know who to call.

The problem is that most of us do not have an electrician until we suddenly need one.

Then you Google. You ask in a Facebook group. You text a neighbor. You get three names and very quickly realize you have almost no idea how to compare them.

That is where I would start.

First, are they actually licensed?

This seems like a ridiculously basic question.

It is also one I would check before letting anyone do electrical work in my house.

New Jersey regulates electrical contractors through the state. There is a business permit tied to the electrical contracting company and a licensed electrical contractor of record attached to it.

I do not expect homeowners to memorize license numbers.

I do think we should know that there is a state record and that we can check it.

That is one of the reasons we built this guide around the licensing records instead of simply pulling together the companies that appear first on Google.

Because here is what surprised me: a lot of legitimate electricians are barely online at all.

In Warren, Watchung and Green Brook, Garden State Circle found 37 electrical companies that met our criteria. Thirty-three of them had no website we could find.

That does not mean they are less qualified.

It means Google is showing you the businesses that are easiest for Google to find.

Those are not always the same thing.

What kind of electrical work do you actually do?

This would probably be my next question because “electrician” covers a lot.

Maybe I need a dead outlet fixed.

Maybe I am renovating a kitchen and need new lighting everywhere.

Maybe we are adding an EV charger.

Maybe I want landscape lighting, a generator or a new electrical panel because the house was built when nobody owned six televisions, three laptops and an air fryer.

Those are very different jobs.

I would tell the electrician exactly what I am trying to accomplish and ask how often they do that kind of work.

I am not looking for the person who technically can do everything.

I want the person who regularly does the thing I need done.

Do I need a permit for this?

This is one of those questions I would rather ask before the job starts than after someone has already opened a wall.

Some electrical work requires permits and inspections. The exact process runs through the local construction office.

I do not expect to know which form gets filed with which town department.

That is why I am hiring a professional.

What I do want is a very clear answer: Does this job require a permit? Who is pulling it? Who schedules the inspection? Is that included in the quote?

If the answer is some version of “we usually just skip that,” I would have more questions.

What exactly am I paying for?

Electrical estimates can get confusing quickly because the part you can see is often the smallest part of the job.

You may think you are paying for six recessed lights.

The electrician may be looking at wiring, the panel, switches, dimmers, access above the ceiling, permits and three other things you did not know existed.

That is fine.

Just explain it to me.

I do not need to understand every wire in my house. I do want to understand why the job costs what it costs and whether the quote includes everything needed to finish it.

If opening the wall could uncover additional problems, tell me what those might be before we start.

Nobody likes a surprise invoice.

Especially one that arrives after there are holes in the ceiling.

Are you going to solve the problem or just fix the symptom?

This matters more to me than whether someone has the fanciest truck.

If an outlet keeps tripping or the lights keep flickering, I do not want someone to make it stop for three days.

I want to know why it is happening.

The same goes when you are renovating.

A good conversation is not just “Where do you want the outlets?”

It is also: How do you actually use this room? Where are the lamps going? Are you mounting a television? Do you need outlets inside the bathroom vanity? Are the kitchen appliances changing? Are you going to regret not adding the EV charger while everything is already open?

I appreciate anyone who can see the problem I am about to create for myself before I create it.

What if my house is older?

A lot of beautiful New Jersey homes were built long before our current relationship with electricity.

We have older houses with additions, renovations, finished basements and decades of previous homeowners making decisions behind the walls.

If I owned one of those homes, I would specifically ask whether the electrician regularly works on houses of a similar age.

Old does not automatically mean unsafe.

It does mean I want someone who understands what they may find when they start looking.

And if the electrician tells me something needs to be upgraded, I want to understand whether we are talking about a code requirement, a safety issue, something needed for the project I am doing or simply something they would recommend.

Those are not all the same thing.

What should I do before an emergency happens?

This is the part none of us thinks about until the power is out.

If you already have an electrician you trust, save the number.

If you do not, finding one before you have an actual electrical problem is not the worst idea.

Ask whether they handle emergency calls. Ask what their service area is. Ask whether existing customers get priority.

Because the worst possible time to investigate electricians is when something smells like it is burning.

And if something genuinely seems dangerous, I am not crowdsourcing it on Facebook first.

Pay attention to how they explain things

This may be my biggest filter with anyone working in my house.

Do they answer the question you asked?

Can they explain the problem without making you feel stupid?

Do they tell you what needs to happen now and what can wait?

If there are two reasonable ways to solve something, do they explain both?

I am completely comfortable paying a professional for expertise.

I am considerably less comfortable paying someone who acts like asking what they are doing is an inconvenience.

It is my house.

I am allowed to understand the plan.

So how do you actually find the right electrician?

This is exactly why we built this guide differently.

Garden State Circle did not start with Google rankings or online reviews. We started with the New Jersey licensing record.

For Warren, Watchung and Green Brook, we looked for companies with active New Jersey electrical business permits based in these towns, along with companies that specifically say they work here. We checked the business permit and the licensed electrical contractor of record attached to it.

Then we published what we could actually verify.

Some companies have detailed websites.

Some have almost no online presence at all.

That does not make this a ranking.

It gives you a better starting point.

Because when someone is working on the electrical system inside my house, I care a lot less about who has the best website.

I care whether they are qualified, whether they know the kind of work I need done and whether I trust them to tell me what actually needs to happen.

That is the electrician I want in my phone before I need one.

The Guide: Electricians in Warren, Watchung and Green Brook, 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-six electrical companies are registered at addresses inside these three towns, and one more names them on its own site. Five of the thirty-seven publish a license number anywhere on the internet. That gap is the reason this page exists.

How We Selected These Companies

This guide covers three municipalities: Warren, Watchung and Green Brook.

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.

One note on the word Warren, because it costs people money. Warren Township is in Somerset County, next to Watchung and Green Brook. New Jersey also has a Warren County, an hour west, around Phillipsburg and Hackettstown. A company that says it serves “Warren” is not necessarily saying it serves this one. Every company on this page was checked against which Warren it meant.

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

What This Market Looks Like

Five companies in thirty-seven publish their license number. In some of the towns we cover the figure is several times that.

The other thirty-two 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. There is nothing online to read about any of them.

This is worth understanding before you start calling. If you search for an electrician in Warren or Watchung, 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-two 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 Warren, Watchung and Green 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.

Company	Based in	License, as published on their own site	Business permit (state register)	Licensed electrical contractor of record (state register)
24/7 Electric LLC	Green Brook	NJ State License 17028	34EB01702800 · active	Anthony J. Castrovinci · active
A-1 Electric Co., Inc.	Warren	NJ Lic. 8460	34EB00846000 · active	Paul W Hampton · active
Amtech Electric Company	Watchung	No website found	34EB01497700 · active	Aco V Ruzic · active
BOLD Electric LLC	North Plainfield	NJ Electrical License 15576	34EB01557600 · active	Vincent J Battista · active
BRC Electrical Contractors Inc	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01697800 · active	Byron R Castellanos · active
Designed Electric LLC	Watchung	No website found	34EB01605200 · active	Steven M O’Neil · active
Dura-Electric Service	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01241600 · active	Walter V Duralek Jr · active
Eller Electric	Warren	No website found	34EB01072300 · active	Frank H Ellerbusch · active
Electricomm	Warren	No website found	34EB01374500 · active	Alfred E Shjarback · active
EMS Electric Mechanical and Plumbing Inc.	Warren	No website found	34EB01386700 · active	David E Sautner · active
Focal Lighting and Electrical, Inc.	Martinsville	NJ License No. 11389	34EB01138900 · active	George Cooney · active
Fulton Electric, LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01915400 · active	Vincent Fulton · active
Glenrock Partners LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01761200 · active	Jason L Glenn · active
Inter Connection Electric of NJ Inc	Watchung	No website found	34EB01837800 · active	Robert Skowronski · active
J O G Electric LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01072700 · active	Giuseppe Giordano · active
John A Schipani Electrical Contractor	Warren	No website found	34EB01422800 · active	John A Schipani · active
Joseph Anisko	Watchung	No website found	34EB00426700 · active	Joseph Anisko · active
JWM Electric Company	Warren	No website found	34EB01432500 · active	John W Manhardt · active
Landscape Lighting Inc	Warren	No website found	34EB00752800 · active	Ronald H Pike · active
LED Electrical Contractors	Warren	No website found	34EB01113000 · active	Mark Darouichi · active
Luke’s Electrical Services LLC	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01723700 · active	Lukasz M Hovra · active
Mapco Electric Contractors Inc	Watchung	No website found	34EB01768600 · active	Mario A Matos · active
Master Electric	Watchung	No website found	34EB01274600 · active	Leonel Calvo · active
Matt Pepe Electric LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01839200 · active	Matthew Pepe · active
MDK Electric LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01001500 · active	Marek Janasek · active
MDP Construction & Electrical Services LLC	Green Brook	No website found	34EB00728200 · active	David J Paltjon · active
Millennium Electric	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01454400 · active	Helmut E Krauth · active
National Electric Co	Warren	No website found	34EB00804100 · active	John J Schroeder · active
Opal Energy Group LLC	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01888300 · active	Robert M Subrizi · active
Orchard Holdings LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB00810200 · active	Kevin T Flynn · active
Potyrala Electric LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01477700 · active	Cezary Potyrala · active
RAD Electrical Contractors, LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01914800 · active	Daniel Rito · active
S W Electrical Contractors	Watchung	No website found	34EB01217800 · active	Slawomir Wasyliszyn · active
Supreme Electric LLC	Watchung	No website found	34EB01612400 · active	Slawomir S Kazimierski · active
Vigilante Electrical Contractor LLC	Warren	No website found	34EB01712600 · active	Altay D Vigilante · active
Westfield Electrical Service Inc	Warren	No website found	34EB01407300 · active	William G Quelly · active
William Reuter Electrical Contractor	Green Brook	No website found	34EB01493000 · active	William A Reuter · active

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.

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. One company on this page is named Master Electric, which is a business name and not a claim about a license.

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 for the company; it is not a statement about the business, and every company carrying it holds the same active state permit as everyone else on this page.

The Companies

Five companies here publish something beyond the state record. For the other thirty-two, the table above is the complete published record — there is no website, no service-area page and no license number to report, and we would rather say so than pad the page.

24/7 Electric LLC

24/7 Electric works from North Washington Avenue in Green Brook and publishes NJ State License 17028 on its own site, which resolves in the state record to an active business permit qualified by Anthony J. Castrovinci. It describes residential and commercial work and property-management contracts.

A-1 Electric Co., Inc.

A-1 Electric is based in Warren and publishes NJ Lic. 8460, which resolves in the state record to an active business permit qualified by Paul W Hampton. It describes itself as serving the wider tri-state area rather than a named list of towns.

BOLD Electric LLC

BOLD Electric is at 624 Somerset Street in North Plainfield and publishes a service-area list naming more than forty towns individually, including Warren, Watchung and Green Brook. It publishes NJ Electrical License 15576, which resolves in the state record to an active business permit qualified by Vincent J Battista. Added to this guide on September 4, 2026, when its own service-area page was read; it does not hold a permit at an address in these three towns and is here because it says it works in them.

Focal Lighting and Electrical, Inc.

Focal Lighting works from Washington Valley Road in Martinsville and names Warren Township among the towns it serves, along with Bridgewater, Basking Ridge and Somerset County generally. It publishes NJ License No. 11389, which resolves to an active business permit qualified by George Cooney. The permit itself is filed with the state at a Warren address while the company publishes a Martinsville one — the two are a few minutes apart and both are reported here as each source has them.

Joseph Anisko

Joseph Anisko holds a Watchung business permit in his own name rather than a company’s, which is the oldest registration on this page. It is active and qualified by him personally. No website was found.

Common Questions

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-two 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-seven, website or not. A great many long-established electrical contractors in these towns have never built a site. Ask any of them for the license number and check it yourself against the state register; it takes about a minute.

How do I actually 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.

A company says it serves Warren. How do I know which Warren?
Read the sentence, not the word. Warren Township is in Somerset County; Warren County is an hour west, around Phillipsburg and Hackettstown. If a company lists Warren alongside Phillipsburg, Hackettstown or Washington, or alongside the words “Warren County,” it means the other one.

Who inspects electrical work in these towns?
Each municipality runs its own construction office, and Watchung and Green Brook each publish an electrical subcode official by name. All three offices are listed below.

Who Governs Electrical Work in Warren, Watchung and Green 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.

Municipality	Construction permit office, as the town names it	Phone	Officials, as published	Hours, as published
Green Brook	Construction Office, 111 Greenbrook Road	732-968-1023 ext. 6606	Frank LaGuarina, Construction Official and Building Subcode · Jay Everard, Electrical · Peter Combates, Plumbing · Joe Abbruzzese, Fire	Mon–Fri 8:30am–4:00pm
Watchung	Construction Office, 15 Mountain Boulevard	(908) 756-6093 ext. 219	Dan Niro, Construction Official and Plumbing Inspector · John McManus, Electrical · Frank Genova, Building and Fire	Mon–Thu 8:00am–4:00pm, Fri 8:00am–1:00pm
Warren	Construction Code office, 46 Mountain Boulevard	Not published on the pages read	Not published	Not published

Offices read September 4, 2026.

Watchung and Green Brook each name an electrical subcode official — the person who inspects the work rather than the person who issues the permit. Warren Township publishes an office and an address but no names and no direct number; parts of the township’s site would not open to us, so the row says so rather than guessing.

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 township published, with the date we checked it — confirm with the construction office 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-two 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 Warren, Watchung or Green Brook, or a published statement that you work here.

Additional Resources

NJ Division of Consumer Affairs license verification

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