Enterprise WordPress development and support for regional energy distribution leader
Rhode Island Energy provides essential energy services to over 770,000 customers across Rhode Island through the delivery of electricity and natural gas, while supporting the transition to a cleaner energy future.
The company is part of the PPL Corporation (NYSE: PPL) family of companies addressing energy challenges head-on by building smarter, more resilient, and more dynamic power grids and advancing sustainable energy solutions.
“Rhode Island is happy to work together with Massachusetts to continue our offshore wind investments and advance our state’s commitment to a 100% renewable energy standard by 2033.”
Chris Kearns – Acting Commissioner, Rhode Island Office of Energy Resources
We like Rhode Island alot, just in general. Great beaches and historic towns. Newport Jazz Festival. Taylor Swift has a place there. And it’s an environmentally-minded state with ambitious goals for carbon emissions reduction, aiming to be net-zero by 2050. We believe in that. By continuing to invest in offshore wind, solar power, and energy efficiency, Rhode Island is positioning itself as a leader in the transition to a cleaner energy future. And Rhode Island Energy is a pillar of that, and since 2023, we’ve been their WordPress development partner.
As a mid-sized Productive Machine client, “RIE” is primarily a maintenance operation for us. We’re managing and maintaining a site we neither designed nor built. But with a high-energy client partner who actually came from the agency world, and has lots of strategic communications responsibilities on her plate, we’ve got plenty to do.
We can’t share details, but we can say that we work regularly on a long list of what our client calls quality of life issues. Problems with WordPress backend admin usability. Unexpected front-end anomalies. Occasional breakage of things that just shouldn’t be broken. Not every client gets handed the luxury of designing and building a completely new site – sometimes you have to make the most of what you’ve got.
A thing we really admire about this organization is their strong interest in making progress with ADA/W3C/WCAG compliance. Not just for commercial and legal reasons, but because it’s morally the right thing to do for their users.
In the ideal world, we’d be building a shiny, new, natively WCAG-compliant site for them. Maybe one day, but in the meantime we’re more than equipped to deliver incremental improvements in this area as we do for many of our clients – all progress is good progress.