Christopher M. Crane President and Chief Operating Officer, Exelon Corporation; President, Exelon Generation

Profile

Christopher Crane is President and Chief Operating Officer of Exelon Corporation and President of Exelon Generation. Exelon is one of the nation’s largest electric utilities. Its retail affiliates serve 5.4 million customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Exelon Generation has one of the U.S. industry’s largest portfolios of electric generating capacity, with a multi-regional reach. It operates the nation’s largest fleet of nuclear power plants, and through its generation and trading organizations, controls more than 31,000 megawatts of electric supply.

Professional History

Crane is one of the leading executives in the power industry. Exelon Generation has substantial coal, hydro-electric, natural gas, oil, solar, wind and landfill gas generating capacity, but its foundation and competitive advantage is the nation’s largest and consistently best performing nuclear generation fleet.

Crane has worked in the nuclear industry in progressively more responsible positions for 30 years. He joined Exelon (then ComEd) in 1998, and was named Chief Nuclear Officer in 2004. He was a key player in the dramatic turnaround of ComEd nuclear performance, and the development of Exelon’s proprietary Nuclear Management Model, a codification of industry-leading operational, safety, management, regulatory, workforce and financial practices. The Model is the key to Exelon Nuclear’s sustained excellence in production, cost and overall effectiveness.

Crane assumed responsibility for Exelon’s fossil, hydro and renewables facilities, in addition to the nuclear fleet, in 2007. He has directed a broad range of generation and business development initiatives, including new nuclear development, nuclear operating services, development of the nation’s largest urban solar project, innovative decommissioning strategies, and asset optimization. He was instrumental in establishing corporate citizenship and public outreach as a plant priority.

He was named Exelon’s President and Chief Operating Officer in September, 2008.  In addition to generation, he directs the work of Exelon’s power trading organization, corporate development functions, and corporate transmission activities.

Prior to joining Exelon, Crane served as Browns Ferry Nuclear site vice president for the Tennessee Valley Authority, and worked in new plant start-up at the Comanche Peak Nuclear Plant in Texas and Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station in Arizona.

Civic Involvement

Crane is an acknowledged leader in both the U.S. and international nuclear industry. He is a member of the board of directors of the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations, the industry organization promoting the highest levels of safety and reliability in nuclear plant operation. He is a member of the executive committee of the Nuclear Energy Institute, the nation’s nuclear industry trade association, where he has also served as chairman of the New Plant Oversight Committee, and as a member of the Nuclear Strategic Issues Advisory Committee, the Nuclear Fuel Supply Committee and the Materials Initiative Group. He is Chairman of the World Nuclear Association, promoting the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear energy. He is on the board of the Foundation for Nuclear Studies.

Education

Crane studied at New Hampshire Technical College, and attended Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He previously held a senior reactor operator certification.