How We Verify Listings

Where listings come from

We find electrical businesses in public sources:

Overture Maps open places data
New York State Department of State business entity records
Electrician license lists published by local governments

Finding a business this way does not put it on the site.

What we check before a listing goes live

A business appears only after we confirm all of the following on the business’s own website:

that it is an electrical contractor
its business name
its phone number

We show a street address only when the business’s website shows one address. We show a service only when the business’s website describes that service. Each listing shows the date we last checked it. If we can’t confirm something, we leave it off. We don’t guess.

Claimed and verified listings

Electricians can claim their listing for free to correct or add details. Claimed details come from the business itself.

Order and paid placement

Listings with more verified detail appear first, then alphabetically. Featured placement for electricians is coming. When it launches, every Featured listing will be clearly labeled “Featured”, and no paid placement will ever be unlabeled.

Corrections and removal

If anything on a listing is wrong, or you’d like a listing removed, use the form on our For Electricians page and choose “Correct my listing” or “Remove my listing”. We review every request.

Data sources and attribution

Business discovery uses places data from the Overture Maps Foundation (Overture Maps Foundation, overturemaps.org). Overture places data includes the following sources:

Data from Meta. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from Microsoft. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from PinMeTo. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from Krick. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from RenderSEO. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from DAC. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from BrightQuery. Available under CDLA Permissive 2.0.
Data from AllThePlaces. Available under CC0 1.0.

Source: Overture Maps attribution. Business details on each listing are published only after we confirm them on the business’s own website.

Capital Region Electric is operated by Evolve, LLC. Evolve also provides marketing services to some local businesses, including some listed here. That doesn’t affect which businesses are listed or the order they appear in.