Cumberland County, Maine
Licensed, insured electrical work for Naples homes and businesses, with the owner on every job.
Naples sits where Long Lake, Brandy Pond and the Songo River meet the top of Sebago Lake, with U.S. Route 302 crossing the Causeway through the middle of town. Its three villages, Naples, Edes Falls and South Naples, hold a mix of year-round homes, lake cottages and the restaurants, pubs and seasonal rentals that fill up each summer. From its base in Westbrook, Goodnow Electric, a licensed Maine master electrician, serves Naples homes with panel and service upgrades, EV charger and generator installs, rewiring, lighting and round-the-clock emergency help.
The American Community Survey counts about 3,360 housing units in Naples, and about 1,280 of them, roughly 38 percent, are held for seasonal or recreational use. Most of the stock is recent: the median home was built in 1988, about two-thirds went up after 1980, and only about 4 percent predates 1940. About 81 percent are single-family detached houses, about 11 percent are mobile homes, and about 2 percent of units sit in 2-to-4 unit buildings. Around 88 percent of occupied homes are owner-occupied. For electrical work, that means fewer fuse boxes than in older towns but many lake cottages built with small services for summer use, 1970s and 1980s homes now carrying far more load than they were wired for, and mobile homes with their own service rules.
About 56 percent of occupied Naples homes heat with fuel oil, according to the ACS, and about 25 percent use propane. Electricity is the main heat in about 7 percent of homes, wood in about 5 percent, and a small share, about 3.5 percent, is counted as utility gas. With oil still dominant, cold-climate heat pumps are the main electrification project here, and each outdoor unit adds a 240 volt circuit to the panel. Electric vehicles add another. Efficiency Maine's off-peak incentive currently offers $400 toward a qualifying Level 2 home charger that pauses charging on weekdays from 5 to 9 p.m.
Central Maine Power serves Naples; the town's code office posts CMP's form 1190 for new services. Much of town is lakeshore and woodland on single-phase lines, where wind and ice bring down trees onto wires. The October 2017 windstorm became the largest weather-related outage event in Maine history, with more than 400,000 outages and some lasting over a week, and the December 2023 storm caused about 300,000 Maine outages. For a lake house, losing power can mean losing a well pump, a sump pump and heat at once, which is why standby generators and transfer switches are a common project on Long Lake and Brandy Pond.
Naples was settled in 1774 and incorporated in 1834, taking its name from Naples, Italy. Longfellow and Hawthorne were among its nineteenth-century visitors, and the Bay of Naples Inn, a John Calvin Stevens design with 80 bedrooms, opened in 1899 and stood until 1964. The Theodore Roosevelt International Highway, now Route 302, brought automobile tourists from 1919 on. Today the Causeway between Long Lake and Brandy Pond is the town's center of activity, the Songo Lock still lifts boats between Brandy Pond and Sebago, and the historical society museum stands on the Village Green.
Naples does not inspect electrical work locally. The town's code enforcement page states that since April 1, 2021, all electrical permitting must be done through the State of Maine, and that inspections are arranged by calling the state electrical inspector for the Cumberland County area. When CMP's form 1190 is needed, the upper portion goes to the assistant code enforcement officer. The town still handles building, shoreland zoning and floodplain permits, and its ordinance prohibits accessory dwelling units inside the shoreland zone. Installations begun on or after July 1, 2026 fall under the 2026 National Electrical Code.
Commercial, solar, smart home and new construction work are covered on our full list of electrical services.
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