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21
Exelon 2012 Summary Annual Report Our Companies
Generation
Exelon Generation is the leading competitive power generator
in the nation, with owned generating assets totaling nearly
35,000 megawas including 19,165 megawas of clean nuclear
energy in 22 units in Illinois, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey
and New York; and 15,566 megawas of non-nuclear generation,
including (in order of megawa capacity) natural gas, coal,
hydro, oil, wind, solar and landfill gas.
The merger expanded Exelon Nuclear’s fleet to include a majority share of Constellation
Energy Nuclear Group (CENG), which operates Calvert Clis in Maryland, and R.E.
Ginna and Nine Mile Point in New York. CENG is a joint venture with Electricite de France.
In 2012, Exelon Nuclear-operated facilities achieved an average capacity factor of
92.7 percent (the 13th consecutive year above 92 percent) and produced 131.8 million
megawatt-hours of electricity. Exelon Power’s fleet provided more than 40 million
megawatt-hours of reliable generation in 2012.
Among the significant developments in Exelon Generation in 2012:
• Additionalsafetyequipmentandprocedureswereidentiedandimplemented
across the nuclear fleet in response to industry-wide lessons learned from the
Fukushima disaster in 2011.
• Initseortstoconstantlyimprovesafety,Nuclearimplementedahostofinnovative
dose reduction programs in 2012, and recorded its lowest fleet Collective Radiation
Exposure in the company’s history.
• Along-termoperatingservicesagreementwasreachedwiththeOmahaPublic
Power District (OPPD) to assume operational responsibility of the Fort Calhoun
Nuclear Station, representing a first-of-its-kind operating arrangement for Exelon.
OPPD will continue to own the plant and remain the NRC licensee, but day-to-day
operations of the plant will be brought under the oversight and governance umbrella
of Exelon Nuclear and its best-in-class Management Model. Exelon Nuclear Partners,
the consulting division of Exelon Generation, had been assisting Fort Calhoun
since January 2012.
Exelon’s growing wind portfolio spans 44 projects
across 10 states and can produce 1,300 MW
of clean energy, making it the 11th largest wind
producer in the nation.
Exelon Nuclear-operated facilities achieved an
average capacity factor of 92.7 percent (the 13th
consecutive year above 92 percent).