NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Mar 12, 2012) - Con Edison's Green Team will host an energy efficiency summit on May 1 at the Hilton New York for commercial and industrial building owners looking to make their properties more energy efficient and connect with hundreds of experts on saving energy.

Thousands of commercial and industrial customers have worked with the Con Edison Green Team to increase energy efficiency, profitability and competiveness. They have secured cash rebates and incentives, advance technologies and technical expertise available through the company's Commercial & Industrial (C&I) Energy Efficiency Program.

"Con Edison's powerful incentives, major cash rebates and technical expertise can help our customers turn their properties into high-performance buildings," said David Pospisil, Program Manager, C&I Energy Efficiency Program. "This year's summit will focus on innovation in the C&I sector. Building technology advances quickly, and the summit offers customers the opportunity to keep abreast of these changes and determine how to capitalize on them."

The one-day summit will feature innovative products and services and valuable rebates available to help Con Edison C&I customers reduce energy consumption, lower their energy bills and improve their green footprint. Property and facility managers, engineers and energy managers, C-level executives, energy consultants, architects, designers, contractors, distributors and installers can register for the summit at [ www.conEdsummit.com ]. For more information about the summit and Con Edison's C&I Program, email [ conedci@lmbps.com ] or call 1-877-797-6347.

Informational seminars will cover topics such as retro-commissioning, sustainability trends, emerging gas technologies, lighting and LED advancements and research, energy measurement and control, energy compliance, variable speed and variable frequency drive technologies, and market and finance factors. Additionally, short product or service pitches will be offered again throughout the day at the "Pitchstop."

The Con Edison Green Team has an energy efficiency program available for almost everyone. To learn which program is right for you, call the Green Team at 1-877-860-6118 or visit [ www.conEd.com/greenteam ].

Con Edison is a subsidiary of Consolidated Edison, Inc. (NYSE: [ ED ]), one of the nation's largest investor-owned energy companies, with approximately $13 billion in annual revenues and $39 billion in assets. The utility provides electric, gas and steam service to more than three million customers in New York City and Westchester County, New York. For additional financial, operations and customer service information, visit us on the Web at [ www.conEd.com ], at our green site, [ www.coned.com/thepowerofgreen ], or find us on Facebook at Power of Green.