The best electricians in Austin.

For a homeowner who wants the licensed electrician on the phone instead of a dispatcher, Decker Electric has run since 1984 and its master electrician, Reid Holm, answers his own line. For a problem at 2am, Brushy Creek Electric publishes an emergency cell answered 24 hours a day, and Neely Electric and TruTec Electric both say calls are answered around the clock. For a price agreed before anyone starts, DC Electric gives a firm number rather than an estimate and publishes its panel-upgrade warranty terms. For commercial and general-contractor work, Beckett Electrical, KDR Electric, and Bowne Electric are the deepest independents here. For one company across air conditioning, electrical, and plumbing, Efficient AC, Electric & Plumbing has run in Austin since 1976 and names the family that owns it. Every company on this page is independent, runs from Austin, and prints a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation license number on its own website, which is the one credential in this trade a reader can look at.

Carissa.

Writer, The Austin Newsletter · Updated September 2026

Electrical work is the home repair you cannot inspect. A plumbing mistake announces itself; a loose connection, a skipped ground, or the wrong wire gauge is sealed behind drywall and behaves exactly like good work until the day it does not. One Austin company on this page makes that argument on its own homepage better than we could, and it is the reason this list ranks on a credential rather than on adjectives. Texas licenses electricians through the Department of Licensing and Regulation, and the license number is the one thing a contractor can publish and a homeowner can actually check. Every company ranked below prints one on its own website.

That test did more work than expected. Our census holds 90 Austin electrical contractors, and 27 of them publish no website at all. We opened 35 of the rest across one day. Three would not load for us: one returned nothing on three attempts, one refused the request, and one had been suspended by its web host. A fourth resolved to the placeholder page a hosting company installs before a site exists. Of the 31 that returned a real page, 21 printed a Texas license number and 10 did not. That is not an accusation about anyone’s paperwork. It is a measure of how hard this trade makes it to check the one thing that is checkable, and it is why the bench at the foot of this page is long.

Two more things to read honestly here. Emergency coverage is stated at exactly the width each company claims, because a 24-hour banner and a phone someone picks up at 2am are different products, and several of the best companies here plainly say they work weekdays only. And prices are absent for a reason: not one of the fifteen prints a rate card for electrical work on the pages we read. What some of them do publish is how the number gets set and what stands behind it, so those terms are quoted where they exist. Nobody paid to be on this list, and the cut list names the big brands and who owns them now.

Considered and cut

Places that came up in the research and did not make the list, and why.

• Radiant Plumbing, Air Conditioning & ElectricalThe most advertised multi-trade name in Austin, and no longer an Austin-owned company. The Riverside Company, a private equity firm, acquired Radiant Plumbing and Air Conditioning, Inc. in May 2021, a deal recorded by the firm’s own transaction counsel, which describes Radiant as serving nearly 12,000 residential customers a year in the Austin area. The trucks and the technicians did not change; the answer to who owns it did, and this page ranks companies that are still independent.
• Stan’s Heating, Air, Plumbing & ElectricalThe cut that needs the most care, because Stan’s really was an Austin company for a very long time. In March 2024 The Master Trades Group, announcing from Columbia, Maryland, said it had completed the acquisition of Stan’s Home Services, which its release describes as Stan’s Heating, Air, Plumbing & Electrical together with Wagner Mechanical, providers of residential services in Austin, Texas and Albuquerque, New Mexico respectively. The same release calls the buyer a residential plumbing and heating and cooling platform operating in the mid-Atlantic and Southeast. A page about Austin-owned electricians cannot list a company owned by an out-of-state platform, however good the crews are.
• Abacus Plumbing, Air Conditioning & ElectricalA Houston company, by its own account, and that settles it before anything else comes up. Its about page addresses Houston homeowners throughout, dates the business to 2003 in Houston, lists a Houston headquarters and a Sugar Land office alongside the Austin branch on Denton Drive, and runs a giving program for Houston-area charities. A capable operation, and not an Austin one.
• Mr. Electric of AustinA franchise location of a national system, which its own Austin page states rather than hides: the site carries the Neighborly mark and says outright that Mr. Electric is part of the Neighborly family of home service providers. Local franchisees are often excellent and often genuinely local people; the company you are hiring is still a unit of a national brand, which is the line this page draws.
• Mister Sparky of AustinThe other national electrical franchise in the Austin pool, and its own Austin page says so in the footer: the copyright line reads Mister Sparky Franchising SPE LLC, followed by the sentence that each location is individually owned and operated, and the page sits under a block naming the Authority Brands family. That is a different parent from Mr. Electric, which belongs to Neighborly, so the two are cut for the same reason and not the same owner. The Austin unit prints a Texas license number and an Austin address of its own, and it is still a unit of a national franchise system, which is the line this page draws.
• U.S. Electric ContractorsListed in our census at an East Cesar Chavez address, and the clearest self-disqualification in the pool. Its own site is titled around being an electrical franchise, carries a buy-a-franchise call to action, and lists service areas in Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, and Texas. Whatever the Austin unit is like, the business being sold on that page is a franchise system in five states.
• In Charge Electrical ServicesA serious Texas contractor, established in 2007, printing TECL 24896 and running a broad residential book from electrical through lighting, audio and video, automation, security, and Generac generators. It is cut on scale and geography rather than quality: its own locations menu lists ten branches across Texas, including Dallas and Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, Temple, and College Station, and it states more than 500 people employed. That is a statewide operator with an Austin headquarters, not an Austin company.
• Big State ElectricA commercial and industrial electrical contractor operating since 1966, with real depth in water and wastewater, advanced manufacturing, medium voltage, and fire alarm work, and an Austin office on Forbes Drive. Its own footer names San Antonio as corporate, with Austin, Houston, Dallas, and Corpus Christi as further offices. Excellent, statewide, and outside this page’s rule.
• Jomar Electrical ContractorsCut on its own first sentence, which describes Jomar as a Houston-based, family-owned business. It runs industrial and high voltage work at a scale almost nobody on this list touches, from data centers to high-rise multi-family, and it keeps an Austin office on West Courtyard Drive. The family-owned part is real; the Houston part is what decides it here.
• Fisk Electric and IES ResidentialTwo national contractors with Central Texas addresses in our census, grouped because the reason is identical. Fisk bills itself as an industry-leading electrical integrator since 1913 and leads its own site with projects in Las Vegas, San Francisco, Seattle, Miami, and Houston, and the address on its census row is in Manor rather than Austin. IES Residential’s own footer names its parent, IES Holdings, and its Nasdaq ticker. Publicly traded and multi-state is the opposite of what this page ranks, and both were excluded before any other test ran.

On the bench

Real places we did not rank this time, and what we would need to.

• Grayzer ElectricAn Austin electrical company in our census whose website did not resolve from our network on the day this page was researched. Three attempts across the day, over https, then http, then https again, returned no response at all rather than an error page, so there was nothing to read and nothing to rank on. That is a fact about our fetch and possibly about a temporary outage, not a finding about the company, and this page’s rule is that every ranked fact comes from a page someone actually read. It contends as soon as the site loads.
• Dunman Electric, Duhon Electric, and Dial One Electrical ServicesThree real Austin companies with genuine stories on their sites, held only because none of them publishes a Texas license number, which every ranked entry here does. Dunman was founded in 1997 out of a home in Bastrop, now works from West Slaughter Lane, tells apprentice applicants it will show them how to get licensed through the state department if they are not already, and offers educators a discount. Duhon is two brothers, Damien and William, describing themselves as a local independent contractor, with more than eighteen and more than fifteen years in the trade between them. Dial One dates itself to 1984 and says calls and texts are answered 24/7, though its about page still carries unedited placeholder text. Any of the three ranks the day the number goes on the page.
• Falco Electrical Services, Tony’s Electrical Services, Pritchard Electric, Flash Electric, and The Plug ElectricFive more Austin companies whose sites we read and which print no Texas license number. Several of them are clearly small, family-run operations doing exactly the work a homeowner wants: Flash Electric describes itself as a small company where you will not get lost in the strata of a large business, and The Plug describes itself as a family-owned company. Falco publishes a 24/7 emergency line and free next-day estimates, and Tony’s serves a 30-mile radius across residential, commercial, and light industrial work. They are benched rather than cut because what is missing is a number on a website, which says nothing about the quality of anyone’s work.
• Andino Electrical Services, Genesis Electrical Services, Pro Volt Solutions, and E.M. ElectricThe opposite problem. All four print a Texas license number, TECL 35988, 34784, 40564, and 18843 respectively, and all four publish almost nothing else: no ownership, no hours, no founding year, and in two cases a site that runs to fewer than a dozen sentences. E.M. Electric is the most interesting of them, offering 24-hour emergency service and unusual work including boat docks and code-violation corrections. They pass the credential test and fail the far softer test of having enough on the page to rank honestly against companies that document themselves properly.
• Strong Tower Solar Electrical Services & Generators, Gardner Electrical, and PowerPro ElectricThree census rows whose web presence stopped the research before it started. Strong Tower’s domain serves the default page a hosting company installs before a site exists, complete with instructions to the owner about overwriting it. Gardner refused our request outright. PowerPro’s address lands on a host suspension page. None of that is a judgment about the electrical work, and all three are one working website away from being candidates.

How this list was made

This list started from our census of Austin businesses: 90 electrical contractors across two Google categories, 88 distinct brands once duplicate locations are collapsed, of which 79 carry an Austin address and 63 publish a website. A category count is research, not a list, so the census only decided who got looked at. Every ranked company then had to clear three things. It had to be independent and run from Austin, which cut the private-equity-owned multi-trade brands, the national franchise systems, the publicly traded contractors, and the statewide operators headquartered elsewhere, all named in the cut list with sources. One ranked company, Terrapin Electric, runs a second office in the San Antonio metro and prints both addresses in the footer of every page, so its entry says that rather than listing it as though Austin were its only base. It had to print a Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation license number on its own website, because that is the single credential in this trade a reader can check, and because roughly a third of the sites we could read do not. And every fact in its entry had to come off a page we fetched on 2026-09-09, which is why each pick carries the exact URLs and the date they were read. Where a company states no ownership either way, that absence is stated rather than filled in, and no founding year is ever computed from a duration claim. Ratings and review counts appear nowhere, by policy. Census rows whose only web presence is a third-party directory listing or a placeholder host page were set aside as unreadable rather than judged. The bench at the foot of the page is deliberately long: several of those companies look good and simply do not publish enough to rank honestly. Nobody paid to be here, and no company saw the list before it published.

Here is the number that decided how this page was built. Our census holds 90 Austin electrical contractors, and 27 of them publish no website at all. We opened 35 of the rest on a single day, 2026-09-09. Three did not load: one returned nothing on three attempts, one refused the request, and one had been suspended by its host. A fourth resolved to the untouched placeholder page a hosting company installs before a site exists. Of the 31 that returned a real page, 21 printed a Texas license number and 10 did not. So in the one trade where the customer can never inspect the finished work, roughly a third of the contractors who bothered to build a website leave off the only credential a homeowner could verify from an armchair, and nearly a third of the market has no website to leave it off. That is why this list ranks on a printed license number rather than on the adjectives, and why its bench is longer than most.