Cumberland County, Maine
Licensed, insured electrical work for Standish homes and businesses, with the owner on every job.
Standish covers about 81 square miles between the southern shore of Sebago Lake and the Saco River, with the Presumpscot River along its eastern edge. Its electrical work follows that spread: village centers at Standish Corner, Sebago Lake Village and Steep Falls, long rural roads between them, and more than 10,000 residents living mostly in owner-occupied single-family homes. Goodnow Electric works out of Westbrook under a licensed Maine master electrician, and its Standish jobs run from service upgrades and car chargers to standby generators, rewiring, lighting and round-the-clock emergency calls.
Standish has about 4,900 housing units by the Census Bureau's American Community Survey estimate, roughly 86 percent of them single-family detached houses. The median home was built in 1980, but the stock comes in layers: roughly 17 percent predates 1940, another 11 percent went up between 1940 and 1959, about 22 percent dates from 1960 to 1979, and about half was built after 1980. Each layer has its own electrical profile. Village farmhouses in Standish Corner and Steep Falls can still carry 60 or 100 amp services, fuse panels and cloth-insulated cable, while 1960s and 1970s ranches often have ungrounded two-prong circuits. About 7 percent of homes are mobile homes, buildings with two to four apartments account for about 5 percent, and nearly 950 units are held for seasonal use, many of them camps near the lake.
About 61 percent of occupied Standish homes heat with fuel oil and about 26 percent with propane, according to the ACS. Only about 2.5 percent use electricity as their main heat, wood covers about 5 percent, and utility gas is well under 1 percent. That mix is why electrification lands hard on local panels: swapping an oil boiler for a cold-climate heat pump puts a sizable 240 volt load on the panel, and a household adding an electric vehicle on top can outgrow a 100 amp service quickly. An Efficiency Maine rebate currently covers $400 of a qualifying off-peak Level 2 charger, which in exchange sits idle on weekday evenings between 5 and 9 p.m.
Central Maine Power serves Standish. Three-phase lines, according to the town's comprehensive plan, follow only stretches of Route 25, Route 11, Route 114 and Route 35, leaving the interior of town without it. Most homes hang off single-phase lines through woods and along the lake, and that exposure showed in October 2017: no weather event in Maine's history has caused more outages than that windstorm, which produced over 400,000 of them, some running past a week. Public water from the Portland Water District is limited in Standish and there is no public sewer, so many households depend on well pumps that stop when the power does.
Standish was granted in 1750 as Pearsontown and incorporated in 1785. Standish Corner, once a way station on the Bridgton, Sebago and Portland stage and mail routes, is now the main commercial hub. Sebago Lake Village grew around the railroad station where visitors once boarded lake steamers, and Steep Falls sits on the Saco River. The town has seven National Register listings, among them the Daniel Marrett House on Route 25, the Cumberland and Oxford Canal, the Steep Falls Library, the Paine Neighborhood Historic District and the Standish Corner Historic District, where early nineteenth-century farmhouses still line the road.
Standish issues its own electrical permits rather than sending homeowners to the state. The Code Enforcement office at the Municipal Building, 175 Northeast Road, lists electrical service and rough-in among its required inspections, and the town's January 2026 fee schedule carries separate electrical fees for 100 and 200 amp services, wiring permits by the number of outlets, and a per-unit fee for generators and heat pumps. Maine's adoption of the 2026 National Electrical Code governs any Standish installation started on July 1, 2026 or later. Shoreland zoning adds its own rules for projects within 250 feet of Sebago, Watchic and the town's rivers.
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“After needing an emergency fix late on a cold winter's Sunday, Goodnow came to the rescue! With no power and dark approaching we called around and couldn't find any place that could help get things going before the following day.”
Amanda • February 2026 • Google Review
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