In West Palm Beach the address on the envelope does not tell you who reviews the job: a city permit downtown, a county permit a few miles west, and in a historic district an exterior change that needs review. Call (561) 462-2800.
Licensed Electricians Serving West Palm Beach, FL
Panels, historic-district wiring, downtown and condo work, generators, storm repairs, and code corrections from Northwood to Southern Boulevard. Florida Electrical Contractor License EC13015487.
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Our West Palm Beach service area at a glance
- Our office952 Jupiter Park Ln Suite 4, Jupiter, FL 33458
- Phone(561) 462-2800
- Office hoursMon to Fri 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Sat and Sun 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- LicenseFlorida EC13015487
ZIP codes we cover
- 33401
- 33404
- 33405
- 33406
- 33407
- 33409
- 33412
- 33417
Towns right around West Palm Beach
- Palm Beach
- Riviera Beach
- Lake Worth Beach
- Palm Springs
- Royal Palm Beach
Your Permit Goes to 401 Clematis Street or to 2300 North Jog Road
Inside the city limits, permits and inspections run through the Building Division at 401 Clematis Street, which is explicit that electrical work gets no cost-based exemption: a permit is required whatever the job is worth. A few miles west, the same mailing address can sit in unincorporated Palm Beach County, where Planning, Zoning and Building at 2300 North Jog Road issues its own electrical permit, the usual case west of the Turnpike on larger lots with a well pump on the load.
In a designated historic district, exterior work adds historic review on top of the building permit, and Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, Lake Worth Beach, and Palm Springs each run their own. We settle which counter your parcel answers to before quoting, then pull the permit and meet the inspector.
The utility boundary is not the city line either
Electric service in the city is Florida Power & Light, named on the city’s own public utility contact sheet, which sets the schedule on a panel change: the meter comes off before the work and goes back on after the inspection passes. Just south, Lake Worth Beach runs its own citizen-owned municipal utility, serving parts of unincorporated Palm Beach County and the Village of Palm Springs as well.
Since the 2024 Flood Maps, Elevation Decides Where the Gear Sits
FEMA released new flood zone maps affecting West Palm Beach property owners in September 2024. The city takes part in the National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System, and development in its 100-year flood hazard area conforms to NFIP specifications and city building codes. For electrical work that is a siting question before it is a wiring question: how high, and on which wall, a panel, a meter, a transfer switch, or a generator pad may sit. We check it before any service change or backup power job near the water.
Surge and backup power, once the location is settled
A standby generator installation falls under NEC Article 702 as an optional standby system, with 702.5 governing transfer equipment so the set cannot backfeed the utility. A generator inlet and interlock suits a portable unit, home battery backup covers the quiet case, and any service replacement brings whole-house surge protection under Section 230.67.
Historic Districts Change the Paperwork, Not the Physics
The city lists 18 locally designated historic districts and 46 individually designated sites, and the rule that matters to an electrician is narrow: work that changes the exterior appearance is reviewed, interior remodeling is not. A kitchen circuit or a bathroom outlet repair is an ordinary permit. A relocated meter, a panel on a street-facing wall, a generator pad, or a visible charger are exterior changes.
Those district names turn up on the Historic Preservation Board’s Certificate of Appropriateness items. Flamingo Park, Grandview Heights, and Mango Promenade are land-boom cottages on small lots with services to match: the capacity work is inside, the review is outside. Old Northwood, at the north end of 33407, is 1920s and 1930s housing with decades of later work layered on it, so earlier repairs keep turning up behind the cover plates. El Cid, Belair, and Prospect/Southland Park see constant additions, so electrical scope follows an architectural set already under review.
That changes sequence, not scope: an electrical panel upgrade on a bungalow in a district is the same work it is three blocks outside one.
Downtown, Flagler Drive, and the Blocks Behind Them
West Palm Beach is the county seat, with the Robert Weisman Palm Beach County Governmental Center on North Olive Avenue and City Hall on Clematis Street. Along the Okeechobee corridor the work is unit panels, house panels, tenant spaces, and electrical rooms where clearance in front of the gear is the job. Whose gear is it, the unit’s or the building’s, and can the panel be worked on where it sits, since Section 110.26 sets working space in front of electrical equipment. Building approval and a shutdown window set the date, and an EV charger installation in a shared garage is sized off a load calculation with association sign-off first.
On Flagler Drive and along the Intracoastal the variable is salt load, plus dock, lift, and landscape circuits in a wet location year round, where enclosures and terminations are maintenance items rather than one-time installations.
Behind those corridors sit the postwar blocks off Belvedere, Southern, and Palm Beach Lakes: 1950s and 1960s block houses whose 60 or 100 amp services were sized long before a modern air handler.
1920s Cottages, 1950s Blocks, and the Wiring Underneath
The city describes its growth in two waves: the 1920s rush of platted neighborhoods, cottages, and bungalows, then the postwar and midcentury infill between them. The first wave brings small services, retired fuse equipment, and grounding never bonded to anything. The second brings two-wire circuits behind two-slot receptacles. Some houses from 1965 to 1973 also carry solid aluminum branch circuits, which fail at terminations.
Florida adopts the National Electrical Code through the Florida Building Code, and a few sections carry most of this work. Section 210.8 is GFCI protection: bathrooms, kitchens, laundry areas, garages, outdoors. Section 210.12 is AFCI protection in dwelling living areas, applied when those circuits are extended or modified, not to garages or outdoors. Section 406.12 is tamper resistant receptacles. An electrical safety inspection puts the house in writing for a four-point report and shows which circuits argue for rewiring.
When the house tells you first
Flickering lights in several rooms at once point at the service or a neutral, not a bulb. A breaker that keeps tripping is reporting a condition, and a bigger one turns a nuisance into a hazard. When a fault will not sit still, electrical troubleshooting is its own visit. If you see smoke or flame, get out and call 911 first.
Three Kinds of West Palm Beach Call, and What Each Needs
The older-house call starts with capacity and grounding: an electrical panel upgrade or service change, partial or whole-home house rewiring, outlet repair on ungrounded devices, and an electrical safety inspection when an insurer raises a question.
The downtown and waterfront call turns on permission and clearance: EV charger installation in a shared garage, pool and hot tub wiring with the bonding NEC Article 680 requires, and remodel finish work such as recessed lighting and ceiling fan installation.
The storm call is the short list: working smoke and carbon monoxide detectors, the backup power above, and 24/7 emergency electrical service. More on our services page and areas we serve.
Recent projects in and around West Palm Beach
A 33407 call shows the pattern. Wires were sticking out of an outdoor outlet serving a washing machine, and the visit became a full inspection: unsupported conduit, water inside the enclosure, rust at the exterior disconnect.
Wires Out of an Outdoor Outlet in West Palm Beach
Lake Worth Beach Chandelier Swap and Outlet Repair
Lake Park Outlet Relocation for a Modern Furniture LayoutThe Office Behind the West Palm Beach Trucks
Thomas Edison Electric
952 Jupiter Park Ln Suite 4
Jupiter, FL 33458
Phone: (561) 462-2800
Toll-free: 1-888-705-5600
Office hours: Monday to Friday 7:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Saturday and Sunday 8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Florida Electrical Contractor License EC13015487
Outside office hours the emergency line is still answered. You can send a message, read our reviews, or browse recent case studies. Our Jupiter electricians page covers the area to the north.
Photos from our Palm Beach and Treasure Coast jobs
Four-gang switch plate, West Palm Beach 
New rough-in boxes, West Palm Beach 
Recessed kitchen lights, West Palm Beach
What West Palm Beach homeowners say about our work
Jared was on time, helpful and very professional. Quick and excellent service. Would absolutely use again and highly recommend!
Jared was very helpful. And helped protect my home with a new surge protector.
Michael is professional and helpful in every way. Highly recommend.
Services in West Palm Beach
Start with the service page for the job; each one explains what the visit involves and how to book it.
West Palm Beach Electrician Questions
Which parts of West Palm Beach do you cover?
All of it, 33401 downtown through 33405 and 33407 and out to 33412 and 33417, plus Palm Beach, Riviera Beach, Lake Worth Beach, Palm Springs, and Royal Palm Beach.
Who issues the permit for my address, the city or the county?
Whichever one your parcel sits in, and the mailing address does not settle it: Clematis Street inside the city, North Jog Road in unincorporated Palm Beach County. We confirm it before quoting.
My 1950s house has two-slot outlets with no ground. Do I have to rewire everything?
Usually not all at once. The code recognizes a replacement path for ungrounded receptacles that adds fault protection and carries required marking, without creating an equipment ground, which matters for anything you plug in that expects one.
My meter and panel sit on the street-facing wall of a historic-district house. What changes?
The order of the work, mostly. Anything that changes the exterior appearance goes through the city’s historic review, where Certificate of Appropriateness items for districts like Flamingo Park, El Cid, and Old Northwood are heard, while interior remodeling is not reviewed. So we split the job: interior circuits move on the building permit, and the visible piece waits on its review before we book the utility disconnect.
A panel your insurer will not accept, a bungalow needing a service change and a historic review, or a garage charger the association keeps asking about: call Thomas Edison Electric at (561) 462-2800 or request a visit online. We know which counter your permit goes to before we quote it.