Tag Archives: EXC

The PJM capacity auction is always a big event.  One of the tricky things when analyzing the auction's potential impact on a company is figuring out which locational deliverability area (LDA) a plant is located.  I took on the challenge and created a new Tableau viz that shows the LDA for the powe

Exelon Corp announced this week that it will close the infamous Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant in 2019 unless it receives government assistance.  (See press release here.  Wall Street Journal article can be found here.)  We have seen this story in the past with other nuclear plants.�

Page 9 of the 12/26/16 issue of Barron's (see here) discussed share buybacks in the third quarter in the S&P 500.  The S&P 500 companies bought back $116B of stock during the period, which was a 28% drop below Q3 2015 according to Factset.  It turns out that utilities were a minuscule cont

Last week Consumers Energy announced they would terminate a power purchase agreement with Entergy early.  Entergy announced they would shut down the Palisades nuclear plant in 2018, the source of the electricity for this Consumers contract.  There was an interesting article in the Midwest Energy N

The big news last week in the utility universe was that Illinois passed an energy bill. (See here)  Issues in Illinois have been in the news for quite a while, and I discussed some of these in my article on the entelligent website in July.  At that time legislation was stalled and it looked like

New York regulators have approved the sale of the Fitzpatrick nuclear plant from Entergy to Exelon. (see here)  This is a big step, though the deal still needs approval from the NRC and FERC.  Fitzpatrick is the second smallest nuclear plant in New York, and it produces about 7M MWh of electricity