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Constellation Energy to Merge With Exelon

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Today we announced that the boards of directors of Exelon (NYSE: EXC) and Constellation Energy (NYSE: CEG) have agreed to combine the two companies in a stock-for-stock transaction. The merger creates the number one competitive energy provider with one of the industry’s cleanest and lowest-cost power generation fleets and one of the largest commercial, industrial and residential customer bases in the United States.

Highlights of the merger include:

  • Creates the number one competitive energy provider
  • Combined enterprise value of $52 billion
  • Combines nation’s leading clean generation fleet and leading power sales and marketing business

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The Power of Data for Energy Management

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Data constantly flows through control panels, like the one shown here, in and throughout your facility.

This year’s FORTUNE 500 list will be released any day now. For many years, Constellation Energy has been the chosen supplier of energy solutions to more than two-thirds of the top 100 companies on the list. From big box retailers to automakers, we serve nearly every industry category, earning our own position as the top ranked energy company on last year’s list.

But as proud as we are…
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Natural Gas Fracking Operations Comes Under Pressure

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The natural gas industry has seen unprecedented production growth over the last 5 years, which has led to record gas supplies. From 2006 to 2008 advances in drilling technology resulted in a 245 percent increase in the amount of gas that was categorized by the Energy Information Administration (EIA) as “Technically Recoverable”.  Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, has been a major contributor to the increase in drilling activity in and around shale rock formations. This process makes it possible to extract trapped gas and oil deposits from within dense rock layers that lay thousands of feet below the surface. Liquid compounds made…
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Efficiency Made Easy (EME): Our Newest Product Offers a Convenient Way for Businesses to Implement Energy Conservation Measures

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Our business customers – both large and small – have been actively interested in pursuing energy efficiency initiatives in their facilities; however, there is often a scarcity of capital dollars available to implement much needed energy efficiency projects. When faced with this obstacle what can a customer do?

Well… the easiest thing to do, of course, would be nothing. More proactive (but not necessarily better or feasible) alternatives include finding another way to internally allocate capital to implement a project, or breaking your efficiency project into small increments but…
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Constellation Lights the Way on Retail Resurgence During KEMA’s 22nd Executive Forum

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When more than 400 energy industry leaders met in San Antonio  in early April to enhance their competitive energy prowess, Constellation Energy Chairman, President and CEO Mayo Shattuck’s keynote address provided both a tactical roadmap and inspiration.

Recalling the 25-year anniversary of Jack Nicklaus’ winning putt that electrified the Masters tournament, Shattuck recalled his own efforts in the mid-80s to discern the relative competitive prospects of four tech companies: Microsoft, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, and Novell. As a young IPO banker at the time, Shattuck saw their relative value as similar but history, he noted, has yielded clear winners…
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Why Central Banks’ Policies Clash

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The monetary policies of major central banks differ because their economies have been recovering at varying rates of growth and each bank can have unique dual mandates to promote economic growth and reduce inflation.   The Canadian and Australian economies are in the midst of expansion, while the Eurozone and United Kingdom are struggling to get back to their pre-recession peak.  The United States falls in the middle, it just recently exceeded it pre-recession peak in real GDP.  Japan’s economic recovery was on a tepid pace and then was hit squarely with the earthquake and tsunami tragedies.  With divulging growth patterns…
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