Aside from nurses, doctors and researchers, few companies are more truly essential than power utilities during this era of COVID-19. The world is changed, but the world still wants and needs its power on. Clarity and confidence in the future may be what we all need most. An upcoming webcast will have a roster of...
Exelon Corporation, Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) and Tacoma Public Utilities (TPU) have all confirmed donations intended to aid customers and others during the COVID-19 outbreak. These donations are in addition to the delay of payment and suspension of disconnection that many utilities are offering worldwide. Exelon, and its family companies, are donating $1.15 million...
Tim O’Connor will become chief generating officer of Xcel Energy effective March 31. O’Connor currently is the utility’s senior vice president and chief nuclear officer, and Pete Gardner replaces him in that role. Gardner formerly was vice president of nuclear operations, since 2017. O’Connor joined Xcel Energy in 2007 as site vice president at...
Exelon Corporation has announced that it appointed Calvin G. Butler Jr., formerly chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) and serving as interim CEO of Exelon Utilities, as senior executive vice president of Exelon and CEO of Exelon Utilities. Carim Khouzami, formerly senior vice president and chief operating officer of Exelon Utilities,...
The driver of a tractor-trailer was killed very early this morning after going over a barrier on the road that goes over Conowingo Dam, according to news reports. WJZ is reporting on its website that Route 1 was reopened in time for morning rush hour but then closed as crews repaired damaged concrete on the...
Exelon Generation has reached a settlement agreement with the state of Maryland that will protect the long-term health of the Chesapeake Bay and preserve Maryland’s largest source of renewable energy, the 572-MW Conowingo hydroelectric plant. Exelon says the benefits to Maryland and the Chesapeake Bay are valued at more than $200 million over the anticipated...
Exelon Corp. has appointed Calvin G. Butler Jr., chief executive officer of Baltimore Gas and Electric Co., as interim CEO of Exelon Utilities, effective Oct. 15. This appointment follows the retirement of Anne Pramaggiore, senior executive vice president and CEO of Exelon Utilities, which is also effective Oct. 15. Butler will continue to serve as...
Entergy COO Paul Hinnenkamp joins football legend Archie Manning as the POWERGEN keynote speakers announced. Manning will anchor the Tuesday, Nov. 19 opening keynote, while Hinnenkamp will be front and center on Wednesday, Nov. 20.
The subcommittee was mulling over the “The Blue Collar to Green Collar Jobs Development Act of 2019,” introduced by Energy Subcommittee Chairman Bobby L. Rush (D-Ill.) earlier in the week.
The California-based utility requested that a federal bankruptcy court prevent FERC from enforcing the conditions of the more than 380 power purchase agreements (PPAs) that the utility may want to exit under its Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing.