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McKeesport, PA · Residential electrician · Greater Pittsburgh

Electric Power Pro Solutions Your panel is the heart of the house.

Panel and service upgrades are what we do most — to code, permitted, inspected, and labelled so the next person can read it. Everyday residential electrical too. Small commercial on request.

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Electric Power Pro Solutions · 1627 Locust St, McKeesport, PA 15132 · Mon–Sat 8:00am–6:00pm

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What we do

Residential first. Panel work above all. Commercial when it fits.

A newly installed 200-amp residential load center with conductors dressed and every circuit labelled

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Panel & Service Upgrades

100A to 400A, load calculated, permitted, inspected and every circuit labelled. The job we take more than any other.

Panel & Service Upgrades →
Electrician working inside an open residential electrical panel

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Fuse Box Replacement

Fuses, Federal Pacific, Zinsco and 60-amp services converted to a modern breaker panel.

Fuse Box Replacement →
Level 2 home EV charge point mounted beside a garage door with a car charging

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EV Charger Installation

Level 2 chargers on a properly sized dedicated circuit — with the load checked before we quote.

EV Charger Install →
Technician wiring an electrical transfer switch enclosure

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Generators & Transfer Switches

Manual and automatic transfer switches, standby hookups and portable generator inlets.

Generators →
Electrician installing a wall switch and receptacle during a renovation

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Rewiring, Circuits, Outlets & Lighting

Whole-home and partial rewires, dedicated circuits, devices, and lighting installs.

Rewires & Circuits →
Electrician testing an open electrical panel with a multimeter

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Troubleshooting & Repairs

Tripping breakers, dead circuits, warm outlets, flickering lights — found, not guessed at.

Troubleshooting →
Technician wiring a small commercial electrical control panel

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Small Commercial — On Request

Storefronts, offices, rentals and small buildings, when the scope fits our crew.

Small Commercial →

Know before you call

Seven signs your service is past due for an upgrade.

  1. 01

    The panel is full

    No open slots, or someone has already doubled up breakers to make room. Every new circuit becomes a fight.

  2. 02

    Breakers trip repeatedly

    Not once — regularly, in the same spot, under normal load. That is the panel telling you it is over capacity.

  3. 03

    You still have fuses

    Fuse boxes are a red flag for insurers and for buyers at inspection, and they offer none of the protection breakers do.

  4. 04

    Lights dim under load

    The furnace kicks on, the dryer starts, and the lights sag. That is voltage drop from a service that cannot carry the house.

  5. 05

    It is warm, buzzing or smells

    A panel should be silent, cool and odourless. Anything else is a call to make today, not next month.

  6. 06

    You’re adding real load

    An EV charger, a hot tub, central air, a finished basement, a heat pump. All of it lands on the same service.

  7. 07

    It has a recalled name on it

    Federal Pacific Stab-Lok and Zinsco panels have documented failure-to-trip histories. Replacement is the only real fix.

Recognise two or more? (412) 523-5047 — the estimate costs nothing.

Where the truck rolls

Based in McKeesport, working right across Greater Pittsburgh.

WHERE WE WORK Butler Kittanning Beaver Falls Cranberry Twp Aliquippa Ambridge Apollo New Kensington Plum Oakmont Saltsburg Murrysville Pittsburgh Blairsville Monroeville Latrobe Greensburg Canonsburg Ligonier Bridgeville Washington Charleroi Belle Vernon Connellsville Uniontown Waynesburg McKEESPORT HOME BASE
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The owner

Anthony Bolton runs Electric Power Pro Solutions out of McKeesport.

Small shop, deliberately. The person who quotes your job is the person who does your job and the person who answers when you call back — not a dispatcher, not a rotating crew, not a salesman on commission.

It also means we are honest about scope. We would rather tell you the panel is fine and you need one circuit than sell you an upgrade you don’t need. And when a job genuinely isn’t ours — heavy industrial, large commercial — we say so instead of learning on your house.

More about the shop →
A new load centre set into a basement wall during a residential service upgrade
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How a panel upgrade actually goes

No surprises. Here is the whole sequence.

  1. 1

    We come look at it

    Free. We open the panel, check the service size, walk the load, and find out what you’re planning to add. Fifteen minutes usually tells the story.

  2. 2

    You get a written number

    One price covering labour, materials, the permit and the inspection. If we find something behind the drywall that changes it, you hear about it before we touch it.

  3. 3

    We pull the permit

    Your municipality, our paperwork. We schedule the utility disconnect and reconnect so the power is off for the shortest window we can manage.

  4. 4

    Install day

    Most residential service upgrades are a single day. New panel, new service entrance, grounding and bonding brought current, every circuit traced and labelled.

  5. 5

    Inspection and sign-off

    We meet the inspector, we handle anything they flag, and you keep the paperwork — which matters the day you sell or renew your insurance.

Reviews & testimonials

We’d rather earn the reviews than write them.

You will not find a wall of invented five-star quotes on this site. We are rebuilding our public review profile from scratch, honestly, one finished job at a time.

If we have worked on your house, a short verified review is the single most useful thing you can do for a small shop like ours — and it takes about a minute.

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  • No invented testimonials. Every quote we publish will be attributable to a real customer.
  • No paid placements. A star rating goes on this page when there is a real one to show.
  • No pressure. We will ask once, when the work is finished, and leave it at that.

Straight answers

Questions we get asked constantly

How much does an electrical panel upgrade cost in the Pittsburgh area?

It depends on the service size, the condition of the existing service entrance and what your municipality charges for the permit. That is why we look at it in person and give you one written number covering labour, materials, permit and inspection before any work starts. The estimate is free.

How long does a panel upgrade take?

Most residential service upgrades are a single day. The power is off for part of that day while the utility disconnects and reconnects, and we schedule that window in advance so you can plan around it.

Do I need a permit to replace my electrical panel?

Yes. A service or panel replacement is permitted and inspected work everywhere in our service area. We pull the permit, meet the inspector and hand you the paperwork, which matters the day you sell the house or renew your insurance.

My house still has a fuse box. Is that actually a problem?

It can be two problems. Insurers increasingly refuse to write or renew policies on fuse boxes, and buyers routinely walk at inspection. Beyond that, a 60-amp fuse service simply cannot carry a modern house. Converting to a breaker panel resolves all of it.

I have a Federal Pacific or Zinsco panel. Should I replace it?

Yes. Both have documented histories of breakers failing to trip under fault conditions, and there is no repair for it — replacement is the only real fix. We do these regularly.

Can my panel handle an EV charger?

Often, but not always. A Level 2 charger is a 40 to 60 amp dedicated circuit. We run a load calculation before quoting, and if the service cannot carry it we will tell you what the upgrade costs rather than overloading what you have.

What area do you cover?

Greater Pittsburgh and the whole Mon Valley out of our base in McKeesport, reaching ten counties in all — Allegheny, Westmoreland, Washington, Fayette, Armstrong, Indiana, Butler, Beaver, Greene and the corner of Somerset. If you are not sure whether you are in it, just ask.

Do you do commercial work?

We are residential first, but we take small commercial jobs on request: storefronts, offices, rentals and small buildings. Larger industrial work is not what we do, and we will say so rather than learn on your building.

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Burning smell, sparking, or a panel that’s hot?

Those are not “book it for next week” problems. Shut the main off if you safely can, then get us on the phone at (412) 523-5047.

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Free written estimates

Panel maxed out? Breakers tripping? Let’s take a look.

Tell us what the house is doing and we’ll tell you straight whether it needs an upgrade or a repair.

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