Kinney Electric

Kinney Electric is the Woburn shop that ended up on the national news. In August 2020 the owner, John Kinney, took a routine call from a 72-year-old Woburn homeowner about a broken ceiling fixture and found half her lights out, her stove dead and her refrigerator running off an extension cord; WCVB reported that he raised money for materials and brought a crew back to make the repairs for free. Boston-area and national outlets carried the story through that September. That project is the spine of everything written about the company. In December 2020 Klein Tools named Kinney its Electrician of the Year for the United States, and a March 2021 Patch article reported he had picked up a humanitarian award and had started speaking to electrical-technology students at a vocational high school. A February 2022 piece still described Gloria Scott as a client who had called him about her ceiling lights. Worth knowing before you call: all of that coverage runs from August 2020 to February 2022, and it is reporting about one act of charity and the award that followed rather than homeowners describing jobs they paid for. The one glimpse of the actual trade work is a good one — he was there for a light fixture and caught a house full of hazards — but it is a single, dated account, and an award from a tool manufacturer is recognition, not a service history. This is the right call if you want a Woburn electrician whose local reputation has been written about by name. Ask for recent references from jobs like yours, confirm his Massachusetts electrical licensing directly with the state, and get the scope and price in writing before anyone starts.