Exelon

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Exelon Corporation
Company type Public
Industry Public utility
Predecessor
FoundedOctober 20, 2000;23 years ago (2000-10-20); by merger
Headquarters
Chase Tower
Chicago, Illinois
,
U.S.
Key people
Calvin Butler
(president and CEO)
Products
ServicesElectricity and natural gas distribution
RevenueIncrease2.svg US$21.73 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$4.023 billion (2023)
Increase2.svg US$2.328 billion (2023)
Total assets Increase2.svg US$101.5 billion (2023)
Total equity Increase2.svg US$25.76 billion (2023)
Number of employees
19,962 (December 2023)
Subsidiaries
Website exeloncorp.com
Footnotes /references
[1]

Exelon Corporation is a public utility headquartered in Chicago, and incorporated in Pennsylvania. [1] Exelon is the largest electric parent company in the United States by revenue and is the largest regulated electric utility in the United States with approximately 10 million customers. The company is ranked 99th on the Fortune 500. [2]

Contents

Exelon owns six regulated utilities: Atlantic City Electric (New Jersey), Commonwealth Edison (Illinois), PECO Energy Company (Pennsylvania), Baltimore Gas and Electric (Maryland), Delmarva Power and Light (Delaware and Maryland), and Pepco (Washington, DC and Maryland). [1]

Operating subsidiaries

History

Exelon Corporation was created in October 2000 by the merger between PECO Energy Company, formed in 1902, and Unicom Corporation, the parent of Commonwealth Edison, formed in 1907. [3] Unicom was based in Chicago and the city became the headquarters of the new entity. The merger was overseen by the CEO of Unicom, John Rowe, who joined the corporation in 1998 and led the newly formed Exelon until 2012, becoming the nation's longest-serving utility executive. [4] [3] [5]

On July 31, 2005, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the merger of Exelon and Public Service Enterprise Group, a New Jersey utility; [6] however, after 18 months, the two companies terminated the agreement due to pressure put on the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities by public interest groups, including New Jersey Citizen Action. [7] [8]

On March 12, 2012, Exelon acquired Constellation Energy, with the combined company owning more than 34 gigawatts of power generation (55% nuclear, 24% natural gas, 8% renewable including hydro, 7% oil and 6% coal). [9] [10]

Exelon announced the proposed purchase of Pepco Holdings on April 30, 2014, for $6.8 billion in an all-cash transaction. The merger faced stiff opposition from community groups and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser. [11] The merger was originally rejected by the District of Columbia Public Service Commission in August 2015, though it was approved by other federal and state regulators. The companies appealed the decision. [12] On March 23, 2016, the merger was finally approved by the District of Columbia Public Service Commission after the company made concessions and the merger was completed, making Exelon the largest regulated utility in the United States by customer count and total revenue. [13]

On February 2, 2022, Exelon completed the corporate spin-off of Constellation Energy, its energy generation business. [14] Constellation was the largest operator of nuclear power plants in the United States and the largest non-governmental operator of nuclear power plants in the world. It is also the largest competitive U.S. power generator with approximately 35,500 megawatts of owned capacity. It had full or majority ownership of 23 nuclear reactors in 14 nuclear power plants. [15] [16]

PECO Energy: Nuclear power protests and solar energy expansion

In the 1970s, activists delayed the opening of nuclear power plants by PECO Energy. [17]

In 2015, Earth Quaker Action Team began a campaign to pressure PECO to expand the solar power it purchases, and to purchase it locally to create jobs. [18]

Pollution, security incidents

In 2005, Exelon was required to pay a $602,000 fine for exceeding the permitted sulfur dioxide emission limit from April to October 2004 at its Cromby Generating Station in Chester County, Pennsylvania.

Exelon and Illinois state officials waited for four years until 2006 before disclosing that Exelon's Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear plant 60 miles southwest of Chicago, had spilled millions of gallons of water containing tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, multiple times over a decade. Exelon officials eventually apologized and said the risks from the leak were "minimal", with tritium levels in surrounding wells all found to be below regulatory limits. [19] [20]

In 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced its plan for a $65,000 fine against Exelon for permitting its contracted security guards that were guarding its Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station, a two-reactor nuclear plant located in Delta, Pennsylvania, to sleep on the job. The incidents did not come to light until a videotape of the security guards was leaked to news media. [21] As a result, Exelon terminated the security contract of the Wackenhut security firm that had been involved and now operates its own in-house nuclear security force. [22]

Political activity

Exelon makes political contributions via its political action committee (PAC), EXELONPAC. In 2021 and 2022, it contributed $323,500 to federal candidates, including $202,500 to Democrats and $121,000 to Republicans. [23] In 2022, it spent $2,878,000 on lobbying. [24]

Finances

YearRevenue
in mil. USD$		Net income
in mil. USD$		Total Assets
in mil. USD$		Price per Share
in USD$		Employees
200515,35792342,79729.47
200615,6551,59244,31935.51
200718,9162,73645,36146.22
200818,8592,73747,54647.42
200917,3182,70749,18033.05
201018,6442,56352,24029.73
201119,0632,49554,99531.27
201223,4891,16078,56128.50
201324,8881,71979,92425.4725,829
201427,4291,62386,41628.7328,993
201529,4472,26995,38428.4129,762
201631,3601,134114,90431.0934,396
201733,5313,770116,70035.7834,621

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