Exelon News

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Chicago & Baltimore, February 10, 2012 - Exelon Corporation announced the next level of executives leading what will be the largest competitive energy provider in the nation upon the closing of Exelon's merger with Constellation Energy Group .

Among the many advantages Constellation Energy's headquarters gives Baltimore - Fortune 500 cachet, hundreds of well-paid workers, millions in charity - is this: The building pays sticker price on property taxes - $745,000 a year.

With the current economic scenario of low interest rates, investors are preferring stocks with high dividend yields.

CHICAGO - The parent company of ComEd handed out some big pay raises for last year, after changing the way it rates executive performance.

In my previous article, Less is More: Why I Prefer Low Yield Stocks , I gave five reasons why low yield stocks tend to make better long term investments than high yield stocks.

First Solar is warning that a construction delay is threatening to undo its sale of large solar project planned for Los Angeles County to the power producer Exelon Corp.

First Solar said the U.S. Department of Energy has not released loan funds for a big California solar project because of construction permit issues, news that sent its stock down 9 percent.

The owner of the former McCormick & Co. spice plant lot at Conway and Light streets will have to go back to the drawing board if he hopes to obtain Baltimore City tax breaks.

Utility stocks provide a high dividend payout based upon a risk versus reward assessment.

The dynamics of the decision by Exelon Corp. to build its $120 million Baltimore headquarters for Constellation Energy Group at Harbor Point instead in the core of the central business district illustrate the need for a comprehensive review of the city's policies for using publicly financed tax breaks to stimulate private development.

First Solar , which rallied today along with other solar names, falls 1.2% AH after disclosing the DOE hasn't yet provided initial funding for a 230MW California solar project that First Solar sold to Exelon for $75M. If funding doesn't arrive by Feb.

Members of the Baltimore City Council and others Thursday questioned millions of dollars in tax breaks set to go toward a $120 million office development for Exelon Corp.

On the verge of his retirement, Exelon Chief Executive John Rowe saw his total compensation for 2011 rise 48 percent, to $10.7 million, according to documents filed Thursday with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

The old McCormick site and Baltimore City Community College 's Bard Building were among the top spots considered for Exelon Corp.

Exelon Corp's 1,136-megawatt Unit 2 at the Byron nuclear power plant in Illinois has been reconnected to the electrical grid and began producing electricity by Tuesday afternoon, the company said.

Rowe will stand for election with all board members, who are elected annually, at Allstate's shareholder meeting in May.

Rowe outlines strategy to pull Exelon from 'trench' of low power, gas prices - Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:22 PM S&P: Rise of shale gas 'bad news for the merchant power business model' - Monday, February 06, 2012 3:05 PM have cut their natural gas price outlook for 2012 by a full $1/MMBtu, or 25%, and are reviewing their 2013 forecast price.

Our view: Exelon's decision to build a new tower in Harbor East is hardly a death blow to Baltimore's central business district - but it should offer lessons in what would make the area more attractive According to Google Maps, it's about nine-tenths of a mile from Constellation Energy's current headquarters near the intersection of Pratt and ... (more)

Longtime electric company executive John Rowe will be named chairman of the board of trustees at the Field Museum next month.