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Energy Efficient Buildings Hub launches new name, new website

The former Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings rebrands to more effectively communicate vision and goals with key audiences. Visit our new website at www.eebhub.org.

Philadelphia, May 1- Today, the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster for Energy Efficient Buildings (GPIC) announced it has renamed itself the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB Hub), with a new logo and tagline- “Re-energizing buildings for the future”- to better reflect the Hub’s mission and focus. Additionally, a new website- www.eebhub.org- also launches today, which features more consumer-friendly content geared to the EEB Hub’s key audiences in the building technology and energy efficiency sectors and functionality.

Innovative electricity price awareness campaign launches

The Electricity Price Ticker Partnership, led by PJM Interconnection and Penn Institute for Urban Research, has unveiled its web-based Electricity Price Ticker that tracks the real time wholesale electricity price for the PECO area.  The ticker is the centerpiece of the Partnership’s Electricity Price Awareness campaign, which aims to increase the public’s understanding of the connection between the wholesale price of electricity and their electricity bills to show that energy use patterns affect the price of electricity and to support national Smart Grid efforts.