Service Electric builds, maintains, and repairs the infrastructure that powers the nation.

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With a growing and expanding utility grid, the need for contractors that operate with integrity, quality, and customer service is greater than ever before. As you work to build and maintain power infrastructure, you should feel confident in the contractor you choose to get the job done.

Service is more than just our name. It’s how we do business.

For nearly a century, Service Electric has been offering construction and maintenance of transmission and distribution systems spanning the eastern United States. We’ve earned and kept the trust of customers by doing what we say and delivering on our promises. We think through workflow and maintain communication so you can feel confident in the process every step of the way.

Exceptional Service

Our brand of service is a combination of proactive communication, effective project management, and proven processes. Clients can expect friendly and personable interactions with us.

Integrity in Construction

We do not cut corners at any cost. Safety is in everything we do. Transparency, collaboration, professionalism, and accountability are built into our approach.

Resources to Deliver

Service Electric is a union contractor with the best crews and equipment in the business. The support of Quanta Services and partnership with affiliated companies allows us to scale and mobilize quickly.

Our Services Include

Transmission

Technical expertise and proven experience equip Service Electric to provide “live line” maintenance, system upgrades, re-conductoring and complete rebuilds at any voltage, up to and including 765kV. With proven barehand work techniques and specialized equipment, crews can complete tasks while eliminating the need to interrupt power service.

Substation

Service Electric has the capability to construct every facet of a substation– from foundations to control panels and everything in between. Our crews handle a wide range of voltages, up to and including 765kV, with the most experienced personnel in the substation industry.

Distribution

Service Electric performs distribution work ranging from 4kV to 34.5kV, including overhead, underground, energized, and aerial work. Our history includes millions of miles of line installed, and our work is often performed along heavily traveled highways and inaccessible backlots.

Emergency Restoration

In the aftermath of hurricanes, tornadoes, winter storms and other natural disasters, Service Electric answers the call to restore power to communities in need. Our teams have the ability to quickly mobilize crews and equipment anywhere in the nation. We respond with the experience, know-how, and compassion to restore power safely, expeditiously and professionally.

Technical Services

Reliability is critical to any electric utility or industrial power system. Our technical services range from commissioning to full maintenance, testing, and repair. We support electric integrity by servicing virtually all equipment, including transformers, circuit breakers, relays, controls, switches, LTCs. If protecting asset life expectancy, avoiding unplanned outages, and saving repair and replacement costs is part of your power planning, Service Electric is ready to help.

Energized Services

Service Electric’s highly-skilled team has the technical expertise and proven experience to provide “live line” maintenance, system upgrades, re-conductoring and complete rebuilds at almost any voltage, eliminating the need to interrupt power service. Our energized work crews have completed extensive training and receive annual recertification training to maintain qualifications as part of the Quanta Energized Services group.

Since 1945 we have been serving the electric utility industry.

From the initial expansion of the grid in the 1940s to the rapid shifts to new technology today, our customers know us as the contractor they can rely on to get the job done, and do it safely.
Regardless of size, complexity, or voltage, we are driven by our core values:

EXCELLENCE IS OUR STANDARD

SAFETY IS IN EVERYTHING

INTEGRITY IS HOW WE OPERATE

QUALITY IS OUR PROMISE

Service is who we are

See What We’re Up To!

Click below for recent projects and news updates

Balcony Falls

Balcony Falls

In 2025, Service Electric completed construction of a new double circuit transmission line through rugged terrain in Virginia for Dominion Energy. The Balcony Falls project covered approximately five miles of 115kV line, running through the George Washington and Jefferson National Forests and crossing the scenic James River…

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Watson Gravel Line Relocation

Watson Gravel Line Relocation

Service Electric crews recently wrapped up a unique and challenging line relocation project for Duke Energy at the Watson Gravel site in Hamilton, Ohio, just north of Cincinnati. Spanning from January through May, the job was completed safely and on time, despite months of unpredictable weather, difficult terrain, and a complex river crossing…

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Deptford Substation

Deptford Substation

Service Electric crews recently completed a critical outage at the Deptford Substation, which supplies power to Georgia Power’s largest customer. With everything in the area tied to a single transmission line, this was a high-stakes project where any failure could have been detrimental to the system…

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Get in Touch!

Address

PO Box 3656
1631 East 25th Street
Chattanooga, TN 37404

Hours

Monday - Friday: 8AM – 5PM

Contacts

423-265-3161
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