ComEd Debuts Future Energy Showcase at African Festival of Arts
September 04 2015 - 12:44PM
Business Wire
Company celebrates Festival’s 26th Anniversary
and presents exhibits highlighting innovation, technologies and
proposed plans for Community of the Future
ComEd today announced that it will present its Future Energy
Showcase at the upcoming African Festival of the Arts during Labor
Day weekend, September 4-7, in Washington Park.
The Annual African Festival of the Arts (AFA) is a spectacular
celebration of arts and culture from across the African Diaspora.
It is the largest neighborhood festival in Chicago, and said to be
the largest of its kind in the U.S. Thousands of people from around
the world come to Chicago's Washington Park Labor Day Weekend for
this authentic African experience. This year marks the 26th
anniversary of the festival.
“We are proud to support the African Festival of the Arts and
continue its long history of bringing rich collections of music,
art and inspiring future generations,” said Marlow Colvin, vice
president of Governmental Affairs for ComEd. “We’re particularly
pleased to be able to showcase service-enhancing technologies and
money-saving opportunities for our customers as part of our Future
Energy Showcase in the Festival’s Green Village Pavilion.”
As part of ComEd’s Future Energy Showcase in the Green Village
Pavilion, guests will have the opportunity to learn about ComEd
plans, programs and proposed initiatives that offer greater control
over their energy usage and costs. They also will see how ComEd is
transforming the electric grid and advances in technology that will
help crystalize what could become part of the Community of the
Future to make customer’s lives better, safer and more convenient.
The Showcase also highlights ComEd’s educational and job-creating
programs that are focused on creating the workforce of the
future.
“As an innovation and technology company, ComEd is committed to
promoting opportunities in the fields of science, technology, math
and science (STEM) and engaging our communities to envision the
possibilities available to them, including future careers in the
energy industry and at ComEd,” said Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd
president and CEO. “ComEd continues to deliver on the promise of
the Smart Grid by creating jobs in the fields of construction,
engineering and technology as well as developing important
partnerships like the one we initiated with Chicago Public Schools
to provide high school students with job training at our new south
side Chicago Training Center set to open early next year.”
Passed by the Illinois General Assembly in 2011, the Smart Grid
Law is a $2.6 billion, 10-year project to digitize ComEd’s
infrastructure, providing resiliency, smart substations and better
serving the utility’s customers. EIMA investments since 2012 have
resulted in more than 3.3 million avoided customer outages and an
estimated $175 million in societal savings. Other Smart Grid
benefits include record reliability for the company and the
creation of 3,600 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Illinois.
Earlier this year, ComEd also filed for a delivery rate reduction
with the ICC that will decrease customer rates by an unprecedented
$50 million in January of 2016.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with approximately 6.6 million customers. ComEd
provides service to approximately 3.8 million customers across
northern Illinois, or 70 percent of the state’s population. For
more information visit ComEd.com, and connect with the company on
Facebook, Twitter and YouTube.
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