Electrical permits · District of Columbia

Where District of Columbia upgrades its electrical service, permit by permit.

Service upgrades, rewires, and dedicated circuits are the infrastructure every electrification product depends on. Tradewinds observes them in county permit records, tied to the property behind each filing.

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Four things the electrical record makes visible.

Service upgrades

A 200A upgrade is the capacity that solar, storage, EV charging, and heat pumps all need before they can be sold.

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Dedicated circuits

A charger or appliance circuit marks a specific piece of equipment going in, named on the filing.

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Rewires on older stock

A rewire is a major spend on an older house, and it puts the electrician in the walls alongside every other trade.

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The active shops

Electrical is the highest-volume permitted trade we hold, so the contractor picture is dense and current.

190144
electrical permits observed in District of Columbia, since January 2009

By county

Washington DC 190144

By year

2009 7701
2010 8548
2011 9031
2012 9133
2013 9460
2014 9542
2015 10540
2016 10163
2017 11816
2018 12059
2019 13357
2020 11862
2021 11558
2022 11342
2023 11269
2024 11947
2025 13035
2026 7781

Other trades in District of Columbia

Electrical in other states

See last week's activity, free

Every Monday we publish last week's electrical permits for every county we cover. Browse this week's activity.

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Tell us your territory and we will bring the data to the first call. See the counties and trades we cover on the coverage page, or the firms doing this work in the contractor registry.

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Built from county permit filings. Not every filing names a trade cleanly, and counties differ in what they publish, so these counts reflect our coverage as much as the work happening on the ground.