The right Hamptons electrician, one call
An electrician who answers when the power doesn't
No power at nine at night, a panel that's decades overdue for an upgrade, a standby generator you've been meaning to get before the next storm, an EV charger for the garage, outdoor and pool lighting, or a house going empty for the winter: tell us once and one licensed, insured electrician who works your town calls you back, typically the same day for a real emergency. Free for homeowners. No spam.
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Water Mill Electric Co. finds Hamptons homeowners the right electrician for the job. Tell us once about an emergency, a repair, a panel or service upgrade, a standby generator, an EV charger, outdoor lighting, a rewire, or new construction, anywhere in 9 South Fork towns, Southampton to Montauk, and one vetted, licensed and insured local electrician who does that kind of work calls you back, typically the same day for a real emergency. It is free for homeowners; the electrician quotes and does the work. We cover 7 kinds of electrical work and publish 2026 cost ranges with sources.
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What we cover
Electrical services
Emergency Electrical Repair
No power, sparking or a burning smell: what to do before the electrician arrives, what a service call costs nationally, and why no Hamptons electrician publishes a flat emergency rate.
Panel & Service Upgrades
Upgrading a panel to 200 or 400 amps for a renovation, a generator or an EV charger: three disagreeing national cost estimates, and the one real, current Southampton Town permit fee schedule.
Standby Generators
What a whole-house standby generator costs installed, how a manufacturer actually sizes one, the flat Southampton permit fee, and two real East End companies already selling exactly this.
EV Chargers
What a Level 2 home EV charger costs installed, the PSEG Long Island rebate that cuts the price, and the flat $100 Southampton Town permit fee.
Landscape, Pool & Outdoor Lighting
What low-voltage landscape lighting and pool lighting cost per fixture and for a whole project, and the flat $200 Southampton Town permit that covers both.
The short version
Why Water Mill Electric
One electrician, one call
Your job goes to one company that is right for it: Suffolk County licensed, insured, with local references and the right crew, whether that is a Sunday-night outage or a whole-house rewire. Nobody else gets your number.
Built for the second home
Most Hamptons houses are empty more of the year than not, and the electricians we send you to know it: a standby generator sized to the actual house, not a rule of thumb, and outdoor lighting and EV chargers wired for a property nobody is watching every day.
Straight numbers
We publish 2026 national cost ranges for panels, generators, EV chargers and rewiring, plus the Town of Southampton's own current permit fees — a genuinely rare, primary local source. Where the numbers disagree, we print both instead of picking one.
Free for homeowners
Participating electricians pay us a referral fee. You pay the electrician for the work, directly, on their quote, with their warranty.
Simple by design
How it works
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Tell us about the job
Sixty seconds: what you need, where the property is, and when.
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We find the right pro
One licensed, insured electrician, vetted for this kind of work.
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They call you within 1 business day
You get a real quote from a real local company. No spam calls.
the Hamptons
Towns we serve
East Hampton, NY
Shingle-style village houses with panels and service runs on Suffolk County Water Authority streets that have often gone decades untouched, oceanfront estates south of the highway running a standby generator and pool lighting on an upgraded service, and Springs and Northwest Woods houses on wells whose pumps stop the moment the power does.
Southampton, NY
Gilded-age estates on the ocean lanes running significant electrical load for pools, guest houses and generators, village Colonials on the main with older panels, and North Sea houses on wells and propane where a generator keeps the pump running through a storm.
Sag Harbor, NY
Whaling-era captains' houses with panels upgraded generation after generation, waterfront houses on the coves running sump pumps that depend on the power staying on, and a village split between two towns for everything it doesn't handle itself.
Bridgehampton, NY
Estates on the former potato fields south of the highway running generators, pool lighting and EV chargers on upgraded service, Main Street houses on the village-scale grid, and horse farms north of the highway on wells that depend on their pumps.
Montauk, NY
Mid-century houses on the hills and at Ditch Plains often still on their original service, oceanfront and harbor-front houses running sump pumps against a shallow water table, and motels and resorts running commercial-scale electrical loads through the same permitting desk as a house.
Amagansett, NY
Estates on Further Lane and Bluff Road behind the double dunes running pool lighting and generators in full salt air, shingled village houses on the Lanes, and houses in Stony Hill and the woods north of the highway on wells.
Wainscott, NY
Estate lots of two to five acres between Main Street and the dunes running significant electrical load for pools, guest houses and generators, on a mix of wells and Suffolk County Water Authority service nobody has published the split of.
Water Mill, NY
Estates on Mecox Bay and the ocean lanes in the most expensive ZIP code on the South Fork, more than 60% of them seasonal, running generators, pool lighting and EV chargers on service sized for the property, not just the house.
Sagaponack, NY
Estates on former potato fields between Sagg Main Street and the ocean, the most expensive neighborhood in the country, running the electrical load of several houses through one property on wells and mains nobody has published the split of.
FAQ
Common questions
How much does an electrician cost in the Hamptons?
Nobody on the South Fork publishes a rate, so the honest answer is the national one. Electricians charge $50–130 an hour by experience under one guide's figures, or $70–131 under a second, disagreeing guide, with a service call of $100–200 covering the first hour ($176–327 by the second guide) and an average finished job of $351 ($163–538 typical, $85–1,150 broad range). After-hours work runs 1.5–2× the standard rate plus a trip charge of $100 or more. Two real East End electrical companies we checked — one selling generators and landscape lighting, one selling emergency service and EV chargers — both leave pricing to a call rather than a published rate, so ask before the truck rolls.
Read the full answer →How much does a standby generator cost in the Hamptons?
Generac, the manufacturer, sizes an 18–22 kilowatt unit as the "sweet spot" for a roughly 2,000-square-foot house, and its own 22 kilowatt unit lists at $6,309–7,369 before installation. Installed, a whole-house standby generator runs $1,516–8,810 nationally by one guide (average $5,160) — though two other guides say $1,540–8,740 and $5,505–10,245. Putting the unit price together with typical installation, a pad and a permit works out to roughly $8,900–13,900 all-in for a 22 kilowatt unit. The Town of Southampton charges a flat $200 generator permit. Two real East End electrical companies already sell standby generators as a standard service line.
Read the full answer →How much does an EV charger cost, and is there a PSEG Long Island rebate?
A Level 2 home charger runs $554–1,380 installed nationally, averaging $967 — the unit itself $700–2,000, labor $400–1,200, a permit $100–200; a panel upgrade if needed adds $800–2,000 more. PSEG Long Island rebates $100 off a qualifying charger for any residential customer, or $400 total for a Disadvantaged Community or Household Assistance Program household, from a vetted-product list. Netting the base rebate against the average cost puts a typical homeowner at roughly $867. The Town of Southampton's EV charger permit is a flat $100 — about a tenth of the average install cost.
Read the full answer →How does Water Mill Electric Co. work?
Tell us what's going on with the house — an emergency, a repair, a generator, an EV charger, lighting, a rewire, or new construction — and where it is. We put you in touch with one licensed, insured electrician who works your town and does that kind of work, and they call you back, typically the same day for a genuine emergency. From there it's their quote, their schedule, their warranty. It's free for homeowners; participating electricians pay us a referral fee for the introduction. We are not an electrical contractor, we don't sell equipment, generators, panels or solar, and we don't sell your details — the one company we send you to is the only one that gets your number. We cover 9 South Fork towns and 7 kinds of electrical work.