97.5score /100
Oregon / Portland / 2026
Best Electricians in Portland, OR
We reviewed 102 licensed electricians and ranked the top 10.
The short answer
Highest scoreSun Glow Inc. Portland · 97.5/100
Most Google ratingsSunset Heating & Cooling · 6,632
Record snapshotNovember 8, 2026 · 102 compared
- 1 Match dated source records.
- 2 Apply the published formula.
- 3 Show the sources and gaps.
What we check: Google listing 102/102 · Oregon CCB 102/102 · Oregon BCD 102/102 · Business website 90/102
| Source | What it shows | Coverage | Source dates |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google listing | Listed contact details, rating, count and review date | 102 / 102 | 2026-11-09 |
| Oregon CCB | Dated license, endorsement, bond and insurance fields | 102 / 102 | 2026-11-08 to 2026-11-09 |
| Oregon BCD | Contractor license class and status | 102 / 102 | 2026-11-09 |
| Business website | Services stated by the business; service quality is not established | 90 / 102 | 2026-11-09 |
Not checked: workmanship, price fairness or first-hand testing.
Not checked: workmanship, price fairness or first-hand testing.
Top 10 by data score
How the score works ↗95.9score /100
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These records matched active CCB and BCD licenses at the snapshot. Confirm current status, coverage and availability. View the remaining 92.
Crewsive’s featured choice
Smiley Electric
Serving Portland, Oregon
Our review went beyond public ratings. We examined internal call records, customer follow-up, estimates and booking activity to understand how Smiley handles inquiries from first contact through scheduling. That detailed view of its customer-facing operations informs our decision to feature Smiley.
Crewsive provides marketing services to Smiley Electric. About this feature.
Panel and service upgrades, EV charger installation, Rewiring. Contact the business to discuss your project.
Published by Crewsive LLC. Featured businesses are excluded from the scored comparison. Disclosure. Record review only; no hands-on testing. Scope and limits.
The homeowner library
Make sense of the work.
Plan an electrical panel upgrade
Turn “we need more power” into a clear project brief. Separate the panel, the service and the circuits before comparing proposals.
Read guide + PDF worksheet ↗
Compare electrical quotes on the same scope
A lower total can hide a different job. Use a scope worksheet to see what each proposal actually includes.
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What a GFCI does, and what to tell an electrician
Understand the protection device and prepare a useful description of an outlet problem without opening electrical equipment.
Read guide + PDF worksheet ↗Start with the Oregon license check. Guides are published by Crewsive LLC. Sources and scope appear in each guide.
All 102 ranked businesses
The first 10 appear above. Remaining records keep the same computed order.
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Sky Heating, AC, Plumbing & Electrical
Panel and service upgrades · EV charger installation
Record & score ↗80.8score /100
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Unity Electrical Service Portland
Panel and service upgrades · EV charger installation
Record & score ↗69.9score /100
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RJ Ramos Construction and Electrical Co.
Lighting installation · Troubleshooting and repair
Record & score ↗69.1score /100
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Access Electrical + Construction
Panel and service upgrades · EV charger installation
Record & score ↗33.2score /100
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03How the score works
Each ranked business gets up to 100 points from five parts. The same formula applies to every business and no score is changed by hand. The weights below are read from this run's data file.
| Component | Max points | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Google rating | 35 | The Google star rating, pulled toward 4.0 when a listing has few ratings, so a handful of 5-star ratings cannot beat a long record. |
| Rating volume | 25 | How many Google ratings the listing has. Points rise fast at first and stop growing at 500 ratings. |
| Review recency | 10 | How recently the newest Google review was posted, counted back from November 8, 2026. |
| CCB license history | 20 | Years since the matched CCB license was first issued, up to 20 years. This is not the age of the business. |
| Bond and insurance on the CCB record | 10 | Half the points for a current bond on the CCB record and half for current liability insurance. |
| Total | 100 | The five parts added together. An entry labeled "partial data" is rescaled to 100 from the parts we have. |
Points are rounded to one decimal, so the parts may not add up exactly to the score shown. Full formulas and a worked example.
Partial data. None. All 102 entries have all five score parts.
Ratings cover the whole Google listing. Some ranked businesses also do heating, cooling or plumbing work. Their Google rating, rating count and newest review date describe the whole listing, and we have not checked that those reviews are about electrical work. The formula is the same for every business.
Business evidence profiles
Each business name links to one source profile with the score computation, license and insurance facts, collection dates and original sources. The ranking downloads preserve the complete record set.
05Screening counts
We started with 637 unique Google listings from searches for electricians in and around Portland. Each step kept only the listings that passed it. The area is Portland, Oregon: a business is included when its Google address is in Portland or its own website names Portland as an area it serves.
| Step | Carried forward | Not carried forward |
|---|---|---|
| Unique Google listings found in our Maps searches | 637 | |
| Gate 1: electrical-trade Google category | 290 | 347 |
| Gate 2: Portland service shown by the Google address or the business website | 168 | 122 |
| Gate 3: matched to a license in the CCB Active Licenses dataset | 120 | 48 |
| Gate 4: matched to an active BCD electrical contractor license | 103 | 17 |
| Ranked (one entry per CCB license; active promotions excluded) | 102 | 1 |
Businesses that did not pass a step are not named on this site. Not passing is a limit of public data and of our matching. It is not a finding about the business or its licensing.
Smiley Electric passed the public-record gates but is excluded from the scored comparison because it has a separate promotional feature. This is a publication decision, not a safety rating. Publication policy version 2; remaining scores are unchanged.
The first three counts are Google listings. From gate 3 on, the counts are distinct CCB licenses: 133 listings matched 120 licenses, because 13 extra listings for an already matched license were folded into that license's entry and shown in its evidence record.
06Data sources and dates
Every fact on this page comes from one of these sources. Times are Pacific.
| Source | What we used | Dates | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| CCB Active Licenses | License number, endorsement, first-issued date, expiry, bond, liability insurance, workers’ compensation text, legal name | updated November 8, 2026 at 10:09 AM PST; pulled November 8, 2026 at 8:54 PM PST; 56,693 rows | Dataset API |
| Building Codes Division - Active Contractor/Individual Licenses | Electrical contractor license number, type, status, expiry, legal name, DBA | updated November 6, 2026 at 5:22 PM PST; pulled November 8, 2026 at 8:56 PM PST; 46,626 rows | Dataset API |
| Google Maps listings (DataForSEO Google Maps SERP live/advanced) | Name, category, address, phone, website, rating and rating count; searches: electrical contractor | Portland,Oregon,United States (city); electrician | Portland,Oregon,United States (city); electrical contractor | 45.4650,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.4650,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.4650,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.4650,-122.7700,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5250,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5250,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5250,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5250,-122.7700,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5900,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5900,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5900,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrical contractor | 45.5900,-122.7700,13z (grid); electrician | 45.4650,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrician | 45.4650,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrician | 45.4650,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrician | 45.4650,-122.7700,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5250,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5250,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5250,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5250,-122.7700,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5900,-122.5300,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5900,-122.6100,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5900,-122.6900,13z (grid); electrician | 45.5900,-122.7700,13z (grid) | pulled November 8, 2026 at 8:57 PM PST | Each business links to its Google profile |
| Google review dates (DataForSEO Google Reviews (newest 10, dates only)) | Date of the newest review only. Review text and reviewer details are not stored. | pulled November 8, 2026 at 9:03 PM PST | |
| Business websites | License numbers a business publishes, cities it says it serves, services it names (short quotes with the page URL) | checked | Each quote links to its page |
07What this ranking does not tell you
- No inspection, calls or hiring. This is a review of records. Nobody from this site looked at anyone's work, phoned a business for a quote or hired one.
- Complaint history is not collected. The CCB lookup site blocks automated access, so we do not copy it. Check complaints for any business yourself in the CCB lookup.
- Ratings are a dated snapshot. Google ratings and review dates are as pulled on November 8, 2026. They change every day.
- CCB license history is not business age. It counts the time since the matched license was first issued. A business can be older than its current license, and the dataset does not show whether the license was continuous.
- A missing business is not a finding. A Portland electrician that is not listed here may still hold every license it needs. We may not have matched its Google listing to its license records, or it may not have come up in our searches.
- Bond and insurance can change. We show what the CCB dataset listed on its update date. Ask the business for a current certificate before work starts.
- The score leaves things out. Price, workmanship, permits, response time and warranty terms are not part of it.
- Google ratings are not split by trade. For a business that also does heating, cooling or plumbing work, the Google rating and review dates cover the whole listing, not only its electrical jobs.
08Downloads
The full ranking as data: one row per business with every score part, the facts behind it and the source URLs. Use it to sort, filter or check our numbers.
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Both files carry the run date (2026-11-08) and method version 1.1. The JSON file is the published ranking file this page is built from. Neither file contains Google review text or reviewer details.
How to check Oregon electricians records
For electrical work, match the legal name on the quote to both the CCB record and the appropriate BCD electrical contractor record. Check current status and the license scope before work starts.
Project costs in Portland
This dataset does not contain sourced local service prices. We do not publish an estimated local price range from ratings or license records. Ask each business for a written price for the same scope, including labor, materials, permits, travel, exclusions and change orders. Compare the total and the included work.
Frequently asked questions
How were these Portland electricians ranked?
The 102 records use the published rating, volume, recency, license-history and bond/insurance formula. No score is changed by hand.
Does a place on this list confirm current availability or coverage?
No. These are dated public records. Confirm service to your street address, the exact work, current license status and availability directly with the business.
Can a company pay for a higher rank?
No. Nobody pays to change a score or numbered position. Any separate promotional feature is disclosed and excluded from the scored comparison.
Update log
: source snapshot used for this comparison. The linked profiles and downloads identify the collection dates for individual facts.
: this page was built from that snapshot. Content changes do not establish a new data collection.
Review before the next publication is planned monthly; no automatic refresh date is claimed.
Use this reference
Cite this page
Crewsive LLC. “Best Electricians in Portland, OR (2026): We Reviewed 102 Licensed Electricians and Ranked the Top 10.” Portland Oregon Reviews. Content updated 2026-11-10. https://portlandoregonreviews.com/electricians
For ranking data, also state the data snapshot date (2026-11-08) and method version. A citation is a reference, not an endorsement.