Russelectric Inc

Russelectric's own story starts in Hingham in the mid-1950s: a maker of automatic transfer switches and generator switchgear built for places where 15 seconds without power is a disaster — data centers, hospitals, airports. Today it operates as a Siemens business, and its LinkedIn page and trade press both describe an engineering and manufacturing operation delivering custom switchgear and transfer-switch systems with service and support attached, not a crew that shows up to wire a house. That distinction matters for anyone comparing it to a home electrician. The company profile pages read as a business that outfits critical facilities, and the reviews on file aren't from homeowners describing electrical work. A one-star Google review from this July describes an 8-hour wait to load out of the facility, and the handful of other ratings (3 stars, 13 total) skew negative rather than positive — the pattern reads more like loading-dock and logistics friction than complaints about wiring or repair quality. The Better Business Bureau lists Russelectric with an A+ letter grade, though the BBB itself notes it is not a BBB Accredited Business — worth knowing, since the two are easy to conflate. Its Hingham Chamber of Commerce membership and roughly 70-year run under the same name back up its longevity, even as ownership shifted somewhere along the way from a Russell family business to a Siemens subsidiary. Before calling: confirm whether Russelectric does on-site electrical contracting for a home at all, versus manufacturing and shipping switchgear and transfer-switch equipment — the evidence here points overwhelmingly to the latter. If it's data-center-grade backup power equipment you're after, the decades of manufacturing history and Siemens backing are real; if it's a residential electrician, this isn't clearly the business for that job.