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PECO Energy
Subsidiary
Founded 1881
Headquarters PECO Building
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Parent Exelon
Website http://www.peco.com/

PECO, formerly the Philadelphia Electric Company, is an energy company founded in 1881 and incorporated in 1929. It became part of Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) in 2000 when it merged with Unicom.

The company has approximately 2,300 employees; its call center and field craft personnel are members of IBEW Local 614. PECO serves 1.6 million electric and 485,000 natural gas customers; it is the largest combination utility in Pennsylvania, and has a franchise utility service area of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). with a population of 3.8 million people.

Electricity and natural gas

PECO's peak electric load occurred on August 3, 2006 and was 8,932 megawatts (MWs) and its highest peak load in the winter season occurred on December 20, 2004 and was 6,838 MW. Residential electric usage makes up about 35 percent of PECO’s total electric delivery and half of the annual electric revenue.

PECO’s electric sales tend to peak in the summer and winter seasons, driven by air conditioning and heating load when extreme temperatures create greater demand. The company's natural gas sales are generally higher during the winter periods when cold temperatures create demand for heating. The company’s highest gas sales occurred on Jan. 17, 2000 and was Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of gas. Gas usage by residential customers is approximately half of PECO’s total deliveries.

The PECO transition period for the competitive electric generation market ended on Dec. 31, 2010, when caps on retail rates and competitive transition charges on customer bills ended. PECO electric rates had been capped for 12 years. PECO expects to purchase all of its wholesale electricity from competitive market sources subsequent to 2010 with retail customers charged the actual costs of procurement.

According to Exelon SEC Form 10-k for the year 2012: nuclear energy supplied 53% of power supplied, fossils and renewables provided 12% of power supplied, and purchased power provided 35% of power supplied.

Facilities and infrastructure

PECO owns, maintains and operates Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of higher-voltage transmission lines, Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of underground distribution cable, and Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of aerial distribution lines. On the gas side, PECO owns, maintains and operates Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of transmission, distribution and service pipes.

PECO has a liquefied natural gas storage facility in West Conshohocken, Pa. with capacity of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). and a propane-air plant in Chester, Pa. with storage capacity of Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value).. The company also owns 29 natural gas city gate stations at locations that link with various interstate pipelines.

They built the Chester Waterside Station of the Philadelphia Electric Company, and it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007.[1]

Revenues

PECO’s total assets are valued at $9.8 billion. The company delivered Lua error in Module:Convert at line 1851: attempt to index local 'en_value' (a nil value). of natural gas and 39.5 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2008, generating $5.5 billion in revenue.

PECO’s utility business is capital intensive and requires significant investments for the electric and gas delivery systems to ensure adequate capacity and reliability for customers. PECO’s anticipated capital expenditures for 2009 are estimated at $400 million—about three-fourths for the electric business, nearly 20 percent for gas, and the rest is common.The company pays about $510 million in local, state and federal income and other taxes annually.

Controversies

In the 1970s through the 1980s, community activist pressure contributed to the delayed opening of nuclear power plants at PECO's Limerick Generating Station and the temporary cancellation of the planned Limerick 2 nuclear power plant, PA.[2] Both Limerick 1 and Limerick 2 were built and producing power by 1990.

In 2015, the Earth Quaker Action Team began protesting PECO to demand that it expand the amount of solar energy that it buys, and to source solar power from North Philadelphia in order to create jobs.[3] PECO purchases enough solar energy to power 2,000 residential households. Twice each year, in March and September, it submits those plans to the Pennsylvania’s state regulators for approval. The utility runs the bidding process through a third party for energy suppliers and wholesalers. PECO’s sister company, Constellation, is the third largest developer in Pennsylvania of solar installations for commercial, industrial, government and customers, and its parent company, Exelon, has a portfolio of wind-generating power projects across the country.[4] PECO currently generates 0.14% of its energy portfolio from solar energy,[5] but could generate up to 20% of their portfolio from solar. Sourcing solar energy from rooftop solar panels could generate up to 4000 new jobs in Philadelphia.[6]

References

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  2. ↑ U.S. Anti-nuclear activists partially block establishment of nuclear power plant in Limerick, PA, 1977-82, Global Nonviolent Action Database, accessed April 6, 2016. https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/us-anti-nuclear-activists-partially-block-establishment-nuclear-power-plant-limerick-pa-1977
  3. ↑ Protesters demand Peco support solar development in N. Phila., The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 25, 2016. http://articles.philly.com/2016-03-25/business/71786984_1_ben-armstrong-peco-north-philadelphia
  4. ↑ Clergy, activists demand more clean energy from PECO, Philadelphia Tribune, March 24, 2016. http://www.phillytrib.com/news/clergy-activists-demand-more-clean-energy-from-peco/article_619b5371-eb06-5e91-8fb6-00632a914901.html
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  • Exelon Corporate annual report to shareholders, 2008/2009

Further reading

  • Wainwright, Nicholas B. History of the Philadelphia Electric Company 1881-1961 Published by the Philadelphia Electric Company

External links

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