Electric Avenue PNW serves Beaverton homeowners and businesses with licensed electrical work, panel upgrades, EV charger installation, and 24/7 emergency service. We pull all required Beaverton permits, know the city’s housing stock era by era, and show up when we say we will.
Beaverton Electrical Work We Handle Every Day
Beaverton’s neighborhoods span six decades of construction — and each era carries its own electrical baggage. Cedar Hills homes from the 1950s and early 1960s often still have cloth-wrapped wiring that’s a fire risk by today’s standards. The heavy 1970s and 1980s buildout that filled Central Beaverton, West Slope, and Sexton Mountain left thousands of homes with Federal Pacific Electric (FPE) Stab-Lok panels — the ones the Consumer Product Safety Commission investigated for breaker failure — and aluminum branch circuit wiring that requires anti-oxidant treatment and proper connectors to be safe. Murrayhill homes from the 1990s typically have 100–150A panels that can’t support a modern EV charger and heat pump on the same service. Newer developments in Progress Ridge and South Cooper Mountain are wired for today’s loads but often need subpanel work for detached garages, ADUs, or workshop circuits.
If you work at Nike, Intel, Adidas, or Columbia Sportswear and you’re charging a vehicle at home, you know the difference between a Level 1 trickle charge and a dedicated Level 2 EVSE. We install them every week across Beaverton and Washington County — and if your panel needs an upgrade first, we scope it all in one visit.
Common Services We Perform in Beaverton
| Service | Common Beaverton Scenario |
|---|---|
| Panel upgrade (100A → 200A) | Murrayhill, Sexton Mountain homes adding EV charger or heat pump |
| FPE Stab-Lok panel replacement | 1970s–80s homes in Central Beaverton, West Slope |
| EV charger installation (Level 2) | Tech corridor commuters; Progress Ridge new builds |
| Aluminum wiring remediation | 1970s–80s construction throughout Beaverton |
| Whole-house rewiring | Cedar Hills 1950s–60s homes with cloth or knob-and-tube |
| Generator installation | Post-2024 ice storm preparedness; medically dependent households |
| 24/7 emergency electrical | Tripped breakers, burning smell, dead circuits — any hour |
| ADU / detached garage wiring | South Cooper Mountain, Aloha, Bethany |
Beaverton Permits — BEPS, Not BDS
Electrical work in Beaverton goes through the City of Beaverton’s own permitting system — BEPS (Beaverton Electronic Permitting System) — not Portland’s Bureau of Development Services. For unincorporated areas like Aloha and Bethany, permits run through Washington County Building Services. We handle permit filing on every job. You don’t call the city; we do.
BEPS tends to move faster than Portland BDS for straightforward residential electrical work. That means less calendar time between signed contract and inspection sign-off on most panel and EV charger jobs.
PGE Rebates Available to Beaverton Homeowners
Beaverton is PGE territory. PGE currently offers EV charger rebates up to $2,000 for standard residential customers and up to $5,000 for income-qualified customers who combine a panel upgrade with EV charger installation. We can walk you through eligibility during the site assessment. Rebate programs change — we verify current availability before every job, not from last year’s brochure.
“After the January 2024 ice storm knocked out power to over 100,000 PGE customers in Washington County for days, we saw a huge jump in generator calls from Beaverton. It highlighted something I’d been saying for years — a lot of these 1970s and 1980s Beaverton panels aren’t just aging, they genuinely can’t handle the transfer switch for a modern standby generator without being replaced first. Don’t find that out when you’re already in the dark.”
— Jack, Licensed Electrician, Electric Avenue PNW
Why Beaverton Homeowners Call Us
- Veteran-owned, minority-owned, woman-owned — CCB# 248553, fully licensed and bonded in Oregon
- Free site assessments — we look at the whole picture before quoting
- Permit filing included — BEPS, Washington County, whatever your address requires
- 24/7 emergency response — no after-hours upcharge games
- Straight answers — if you don’t need the work, we’ll tell you
Ready to schedule? Call us at (503) 816-8821 or check our full service area to see every city we cover across the Portland metro. We offer free site assessments for panel upgrades and EV charger installs — no commitment required.