Central Mass Electrical Contractors LLC. dba: Markarian Electric LLC.

Central Mass Electrical Contractors — run by Brandon Hill out of Auburn and also doing business as Markarian Electric — pulls a 5★ average across 91 Google ratings, with a written history of 90 reviews running from 2023 into late 2025. The story that repeats through that history: someone loses power on a weekend or after a storm, calls around to companies that can't come for days, and Brandon calls back within minutes. In a string of reviews from 2024 and 2025, customers describe him or a technician — Denis, John, Jonathan, Zaidoon and others get named individually — arriving within an hour of an after-hours outage, tracking down a burnt main breaker on a Saturday night, and getting the lights back on before a full repair the next morning. In a 2025 review, one customer describes CMEC tracing a "no inside issue" outage to a fault outside the house after the utility company had already signed off — a finding that sent the utility back out to catch a test it had missed. Other 2024–2025 reviews describe panel work: a new 200-amp service upgrade with a generator hookup, a corroded panel swapped out on an older home, and, in two reviews from late 2024, knob-and-tube wiring found still live behind walls an inspector had cleared as knob-and-tube-free, then replaced. A detail that comes up again and again in that same window: Brandon walks people through what he found and what he's about to do — checking with National Grid before ruling an outage internal, explaining a faulty breaker before swapping it, going back over the finished work afterward. A few 2024–2025 reviewers also mention he lowered the price when a job took less time than quoted. The one discordant note is more recent: a June 2026 Reddit post in an Arlington-area subreddit says the poster's longtime electrician, "Gibbons," had been bought by an outfit called Markarian, and that a quote for an EV charger installation came in roughly triple what they'd expected — enough that they said they wouldn't be calling back for another quote. It's a single account with no other corroboration, but worth asking about directly: get a firm, itemized number before committing to an EV-charger job or any larger installation, especially outside the immediate Worcester/Auburn area. For the routine calls — outages, panel upgrades, old-wiring replacement, breaker and outlet troubleshooting — the 2023–2025 review history is deep and specific enough to make Brandon and his crew a reasonable first call. Confirm pricing up front for anything beyond a standard repair.