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Exelon 2013 Summary Annual Report Our Companies
Generation
Exelon Generation includes Exelon Nuclear, Exelon Power
and Constellation. Generation is a leading national competitive
power generator, with owned generating assets totaling nearly
35,000 megawas including 19,165 megawas of clean nuclear
energy from 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 energy in 18
states and Canada.
In 2013, Exelon Nuclear-operated facilities achieved an average capacity factor of
94.12 percent, the 14th consecutive year above 92 percent and best since 2007, and
produced 133.967 million megawatt-hours of electricity, its best ever, while completing
nine refueling outages. Exelon Power’s fleet provided more than 37 million megawatt-
hours of reliable generation in 2013, and its wind/solar energy capture was 93.7 percent.
Nuclear and Power both met their safety goals, with Power turning in a distinguished
performance in its OSHA metrics.
Among the significant developments in Exelon Generation in 2013:
• Nuclear made significant progress toward the integration of CENG’s five nuclear
units into the Exelon fleet, which is expected to be complete at the end of the first
quarter of 2014. CENG’s fleet had a 2013 capacity factor of 95 percent.
• Fort Calhoun Nuclear Station, a single-unit nuclear power station owned by the
Omaha Public Power District and operated since 2012 by Exelon Nuclear, was
restarted in December after more than 900 days oine.
• In Exelon Power, natural gas and hydro plants in all regions were available 99.1
percent of the time the market called upon them. Energy capture for the wind and
solar fleets for the year was 93.7 percent.
• 182 megawatts from the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch project north of Los Angeles
were brought online as of the end of 2013.
Exelon Power completed 2013 with above-target
performance in its safety, operational and
environmental metrics.
Exelon Nuclear-operated facilities achieved an
average capacity factor of 94.12 percent, the 14th
consecutive year above 92 percent and the best
performance since 2007.