Coviello Electric, Inc

If your porch light is out, this is not the shop to call. Coviello Electric wires traffic signals and street lights — the company says it has been doing it since 1979, family owned and operated out of North Reading, for private, municipal and state agencies across Massachusetts. The permits bear that out. BuildZoom counts 71 of them, and the descriptions read like a MassDOT work order: new services for traffic signals in Braintree, Milton and Beverly, CCTV camera stations in Danvers, electric bus chargers for the Steamship Authority in Falmouth, and in 2020 an LED retrofit of 108 street lights in Nahant. The typical permit value is around $2,500, and nine of the 71 have come in the last three years. Its Massachusetts electrician licence, #9947, is active, held in the name of owner Sergio Coviello. Separately, BuildZoom lists an inactive Massachusetts construction supervisor licence and an inactive home improvement contractor registration, both of which it says were at one point cancelled — and the HIC registration is the one that governs nonstructural residential work. The written customer record is thin and old: a single five-star Google review from February 2019, four words long. For a firm whose customers are mostly public agencies rather than households, that is unsurprising, but nothing published shows how they handle a job at someone's house. Call them for outdoor and infrastructure lighting — ballfields, parking lots, EV chargers, anything on a pole. For work inside a home, ask first whether they take residential jobs at all, and where their home improvement contractor registration currently stands.