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Exelon taps #GE software to improve reliability at its 6 utilities

Exelon taps GE software to improve reliability at its 6 utilities Exelon’s partnership with GE highlights how utilities are increasingly turning to big data to help manage their systems. GE’s Predix systems will utilize historical data and weather analysis, along with asset and area conditions, to help predict outages and give real-time reports on utility … Continue reading Exelon taps #GE software to improve reliability at its 6 utilities

#ComEd wants to bill ratepayers for microgrid ; critics, including Attorney General, cry foul

ComEd wants to bill ratepayers for microgrid; critics, including Attorney General, cry foul Less than a year after state funding for microgrids was rejected by the Illinois legislature, the utility ComEd is turning to ratepayers. In a filing before the Illinois Commerce Commission, the ComEd is asking for permission to charge its 3.8 million customers … Continue reading #ComEd wants to bill ratepayers for microgrid ; critics, including Attorney General, cry foul

Exelon ‘s #Quad_Cities-1 and -2 nuclear units at 95% at request of PJM

Exelon’s Quad Cities-1 and -2 nuclear units at 95% at request of PJM Exelon Generation’s 912-MW Quad Cities-1 and 994-MW Quad Cities-2 nuclear units in Cordova, Illinois, were both operating at 95% of capacity late Thursday morning after reducing output earlier that day, a company spokeswoman said. Output was reduced at the units beginning about … Continue reading Exelon ‘s #Quad_Cities-1 and -2 nuclear units at 95% at request of PJM

#Three_Mile_Island fights once again for its nuclear survival

Three Mile Island fights once again for its nuclear survival MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — Workers are setting the groundwork at Three Mile Island for a maintenance outage this month to replenish Unit 1’s uranium core, an elaborately choreographed event that requires 1,500 contract workers and injects millions of dollars into the local economy. But TMI’s biennial … Continue reading #Three_Mile_Island fights once again for its nuclear survival

Threatening closure of #Three_Mile_Island nuclear reactor, Exelon says Maryland’s #Calvert_Cliffs plant remains viable

Threatening closure of Three Mile Island nuclear reactor, Exelon says Maryland’s Calvert Cliffs plant remains viable Exelon Corp. said Tuesday that it will close the infamous Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania in 2019, a decade and a half ahead of its scheduled retirement, unless state officials there offer clean-energy subsidies to nuclear … Continue reading Threatening closure of #Three_Mile_Island nuclear reactor, Exelon says Maryland’s #Calvert_Cliffs plant remains viable

Exelon Threatens to Close #Three_Mile_Island Without Pennsylvania Subsidy

Exelon Threatens to Close Three Mile Island Without Pennsylvania Subsidy Exelon Corp. warned that it would permanently shutter the single operating unit at its troubled Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear reactor in Pennsylvania in 2019, unless the state agrees to subsidize the plant, which hasn’t been profitable in five years. But against a backdrop of … Continue reading Exelon Threatens to Close #Three_Mile_Island Without Pennsylvania Subsidy