Company Profile: RISE Engineering

Left: Vincent Graziano, President of RISE Engineering, with Charlie Soum, Energy
Specialist, Residential Services.

If you have had a free home or business energy audit through National Grid, you have probably met someone from RISE Engineering. RISE serves as the utility’s lead vendor for various energy efficiency programs. Their energy specialists evaluate buildings to identify affordable energy-saving opportunities such as LED lighting solutions, heating and cooling system upgrades, insulation, air leakage sealing and other improvements that reduce energy costs. Their staff also helps utility customers take advantage of available financial incentives and financing options.

RISE offers much more than home energy audits – it provides energy efficiency services to government agencies, cities, towns, colleges and companies. RISE recently worked with the Rhode Island National Guard to replace old lighting fixtures with state-of-the-art LED fixtures in eight buildings. RISE also helped the City of Cranston replace 9,600 streetlights with LEDs and make other energy efficiency improvements to municipal buildings, schools and libraries.

Vincent Graziano, president of RISE, is a graduate of Bryant College and is proud to employ 325 people across New England and New York, including 157 Rhode Islanders. RISE also supports the next generation of energy professionals: it currently employs an undergraduate intern and five graduates from the University of Rhode Island Cooperative Extension’s Energy Fellows Program. Over the company’s 40-year track record, it has conducted thousands of energy retrofit projects of all types and sizes totaling over $1 billion in energy savings throughout the Northeast.