McKee says Rhode Island Energy outage response ‘unacceptable’
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WLNE) — Gov. Dan McKee said that his team met with representatives from Rhode Island Energy to address their response to power outages caused by a storm on July 3.
Our team met with RI Energy this morning to address the impact of last night’s storm and their response. We made it clear that the communications and systems issues — including the outage map failure — are unacceptable.
— Governor Dan McKee (@GovDanMcKee) July 4, 2025
McKee said that the issues with the company’s communications and systems during the outage were “unacceptable,” and that he asked for a full review of all systems.
The governor also said that, as of 12:45 p.m. Friday, 20,000 customers were still without power and 100 additional crews were dispatched to resolve the issues.
