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Exelon is committed to building the nation’s leading clean energy portfolio around our core of more
than 17,000 megawatts of nuclear generation. We are pursuing this goal, guided by our annually
updated Exelon 2020 plan, by increasing the capacity of our nuclear fleet, complying with Illinois
and Pennsylvania renewable energy standards, purchasing John Deere’s wind power company and
conducting some of the largest energy efficiency programs in the nation.
While the cap and trade-based carbon legislation that Exelon supported has failed, both political parties
continue to pursue cleaner energy, each through its own favorite technologies and sometimes with
little regard to the cost to consumers or public deficits. Exelon 2020 teaches us, and we hope others,
that the kind and quantity of cleaner power we buy makes a big difference to consumers, taxpayers
and utility shareholders. In times of economic stress, neither Exelon nor the nation can afford to ignore
fundamental economics.
Exelon believes in and advocates for market-based solutions to energy supply issues. With U.S. EPA air
quality regulations tightening and natural gas in plentiful supply, markets can guide us to efficient
supplies of cleaner energy. Exelon will be at the table, protecting the electricity markets and seeking to
capitalize on the nation’s cleanest large-scale generation fleet.
John W. Rowe, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer