Tag Archives: Exelon

Nuclear power plant automatically shuts down via Power Engineering

Posted on 2012/09/21 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Exelon Corp. (NYSE: EXC) said the single-unit, 852 MW Three Mile Island Generating Station automatically shut down at 2:20 p.m. EDT Sept 20. Exelon said the plant, about 12 miles south of Harrisburg, Pa., responded as designed and remains in … Continue reading →

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Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/08/26 by yukimiyamotodepaul

In the weeks before the draft rule was issued, Exelon lobbyists attended two other White House meetings, records show, giving it greater White House access than any other company or environmental group trying to influence the outcome. The Exelon meetings … Continue reading →

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Ties to Obama Aided in Access for Big Utility via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/08/24 by norma field

WASHINGTON — Early in the Obama administration, a lobbyist for the Illinois-based energy producer Exelon Corporation proudly called it “the president’s utility.” And it was not just because it delivers power to Barack Obama’s Hyde Park neighborhood in Chicago. Continue … Continue reading →

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Exelon pushes to scrap wind subsidy via The Chicago Tribune

Posted on 2012/08/04 by norma field

Exelon Corp.has been a climate change evangelist for 20 years, billing itself as one of the greenest, lowest-pollution-emitting power producers in the country. The nation’s largest owner of nuclear power plants also is one of its top wind power owners. … Continue reading →

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So, How Hot Was It? via The New York Times

Posted on 2012/07/18 by yukimiyamotodepaul

It was so hot  last week, a twin-unit nuclear plant in northeastern Illinois had to get special permission to continue operating after the temperature of the water in its cooling pond rose to 102 degrees. It was the second such … Continue reading →

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Exelon’s ‘Nuclear Guy’: No New Nukes via Forbes

Posted on 2012/03/29 by yukimiyamotodepaul

Nuclear power is no longer an economically viable source of new energy in the United States, the freshly-retired CEO of Exelon, America’s largest producer of nuclear power, said in Chicago Thursday. And it won’t become economically viable, he said, for … Continue reading →

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