ComEd’s Energy Efficiency Program Saves Customers More Than $2 Billion
December 16 2016 - 11:44AM
Business Wire
Company marks the significant milestone with
incentive check presentation to La Rabida Children’s Hospital for
their energy efficiency upgrades
ComEd’s Energy Efficiency Program is making the holidays a
little brighter this season as it hit a significant milestone of
$2.1 billion in savings for ComEd customers. The company recently
celebrated the results at a presentation where La Rabida Children’s
Hospital received an incentive check from the Program totaling
$73,294.
ComEd’s Energy Efficiency Program, which has been around since
2008, is not only saving customers billions of dollars on their
energy bills, but it also is helping to save our environment by
eliminating 27.1 billion pounds of CO2 emissions -- the equivalent
to taking 2.5 million cars off the road; and reduced energy usage
by more than 19.5 million megawatt hours – enough energy to power
more than 2.1 million homes for a year.
“I can’t think of a better way to mark such a great milestone in
our Energy Efficiency Program than to provide one of its incentive
checks to La Rabida Children’s Hospital for their energy-saving
efforts,” said Val Jensen, senior vice president of Customer
Operations. “We have one of the leading energy efficiency programs
in the nation, which continues to deliver the value our customers
want - helping them save energy, money and be good stewards of
their environment. The savings provided by our Energy Efficiency
Program also allows our customers and organizations like La Rabida
Children’s Hospital, to redirect their savings to the children and
families they serve.”
La Rabida Children’s Hospital has participated in two of ComEd’s
energy efficiency projects since 2013, including the installation
of a new HVAC energy management system, which is more efficient and
provides enhanced control options.
According to La Rabida, the $73,294 amount of the ComEd Energy
Efficiency Program check is the equivalent of:
- Providing 20 children with a full
year’s funding of outpatient mental health care;
- Supporting four families with a child
who has a feeding problem for 12 weeks; or
- Covering the cost of 100 double
strollers for babies who are born extremely premature and are
unable to use a traditional stroller for mobility.
The hospital’s energy efficiency upgrades will help them save
more than 483,026 kilowatt hours of energy annually, the greenhouse
gas equivalent of removing 71 vehicles from the road each year, the
recycling of 108 tons of waste being recycled versus landfilled and
the amount of energy to powering 36 homes for one year.
“The support that La Rabida receives from ComEd is simply
invaluable,” said Brenda Wolf, President and CEO of La Rabida
Children’s Hospital. “Your generous gift enables us to be the
critical resource our families need and makes amazing things
possible for our kids. We are so grateful for that.”
With the recently passed Future Energy Jobs Bill, ComEd will
double its energy efficiency program to help its customer save even
more energy and money, while reducing the impact on the
environment.
Customers can sign up for a free ComEd Home Energy Assessment,
which gives personalized savings recommendations they can use to
better control the energy usage in their home. In addition,
customers can take advantage of cash rebates on select ENERGY STAR®
certified appliances, in-store discounts on select ENERGY STAR
certified CFLs and LEDs and earn $50 for free pickup of old,
working fridges or freezers. For more information on the ComEd
Energy Efficiency Program, customers can visit
ComEd.com/HomeSavings or call 855-433-2700.
Commonwealth Edison Company (ComEd) is a unit of Chicago-based
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC), the nation’s leading competitive
energy provider, with approximately 10 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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