Michael Devine Electric

Ninety-six permitted jobs and a pattern you can read from a mile away: this is a generator electrician. Transfer switches, panel interlocks, whole-house standby units — that is what Michael R. Devine pulls permits for, year after year, across the South Shore and the upper Cape. The Plymouth business runs out of Little Micajahs Pond Road. Its Massachusetts electrician licence is active in the state registry under Michael R. Devine, and BuildZoom, which independently confirmed that licence as active in April 2026, scores the outfit 101 — its own ranking puts that in the top 12% of the 139,240 licensed contractors it tracks. The BBB lists three employees and 14 years in business since 2012, but has issued no rating at all: it says it does not have enough information. That lack of information is the honest headline. Not one customer review exists on the BBB, on BuildZoom, or on any directory reached — the record here is permits and licences, not people's accounts of the work. What the permits do show is depth in one thing: 15 projects in the last three years, most of them generator installs, with typical permit values around $1,800 and a handful in the $5,000–$20,000 range. Two licence footnotes are worth a question. BuildZoom also lists a Massachusetts journeyman electrician licence last verified with a 2019 expiry and a Rhode Island electrical contractor licence last verified with a 2016 expiry. Neither has been confirmed current, so if your job is across the Rhode Island line, ask about that registration specifically. A sensible call for a standby or portable generator with a transfer switch, or for straightforward service and panel work in the Plymouth–Marshfield–Norwell belt. With no written reviews anywhere, ask for two recent local references before you book.