The Pennsylvania Convention Center is seeing “green” in more ways than one. With the completion of three LED lighting projects to boost the facility’s energy efficiency, the Convention Center has received $60,000 in PECO Smart Ideas rebates.

During the past two years, the Convention Center has replaced lighting throughout the facility and in the adjacent 12th Street tunnel with energy-efficient LED lighting. This new lighting will save the Convention Center about 607,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) of energy savings annually.

“Since opening the Convention Center’s LEED-certified (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) expansion in 2011, we have continued our commitment to energy-smart ideas,” said Gregory J. Fox, Esq., chairman of the board of directors, Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority. “Through the help of PECO Smart Ideas, our installation of energy-saving LED lighting has been a key to helping us meet our energy efficiency goals.”

“With PECO Smart Ideas, we are at the forefront of the energy industry, driving innovative programs to help our customers save energy and money,” said Liz Murphy, vice president of Governmental and External Affairs, PECO. “We are proud to partner with the Pennsylvania Convention Center on their energy efficiency initiatives, and we congratulate them on this work to help make Philadelphia a more sustainable city to live in, work and visit.”

PECO Smart Ideas, the company’s highly successful suite of energy efficiency programs, is part of PECO’s support of Pennsylvania’s energy efficiency and demand response targets – Act 129. Act 129 required all Pennsylvania electric utilities to develop programs to help customers reduce energy use by 1 percent by May 31, 2011 and 3 percent by May 31, 2013. Act 129 also requires utilities to help customers reduce their energy usage by an additional 2.9 percent by May 31, 2016.

Small and large businesses, government agencies, nonprofits and institutions are all eligible for incentives from PECO for energy-efficient design, improvements and equipment upgrades such as lighting, HVAC, refrigeration and custom solutions. Since launching in 2009, PECO Smart Ideas has saved customers more than $430 million in rebates, discounts and incentives on energy-efficient products. For more information about PECO Smart Ideas, visit peco.com/smartideas.

Based in Philadelphia, PECO is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC). PECO serves 1.6 million electric and more than 506,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania and employs about 2,400 people in the region. PECO delivered 89.9 billion cubic feet of natural gas and 37.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2014. Founded in 1881, PECO is one of the Greater Philadelphia Region's most active corporate citizens, providing leadership, volunteer and financial support to numerous arts and culture, education, environmental, economic development and community programs and organizations. For more information visit PECO.com, and connect with the company on Facebook and Twitter.

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