Impact

Successfully managing our environmental impacts strengthens our relationship with our customers and communities. We minimize impacts by operating the nation’s largest fleet of zero-emission generation resources and through our focus on operational efficiency and resource stewardship. Our environmental management system is critical to managing risks, maintaining climate resilience and mitigating any potential environmental impacts. We have established metrics and goals for many of our environmental impacts and report against these goals every year.

Reducing our air emissions

We recognize that air emissions, such as those that contribute to ground-level

ozone and particulates, can negatively affect public health and the environment.

Exelon Generation is committed to operating a low-emission intensity energy

portfolio to minimize our contribution to air emissions as we meet the nation’s

electricity needs.

In 2020, our owned-generation portfolio emission rates for NOx, SO2 and CO2 were significantly below the latest available electric generation industry averages. Exelon does not own any coal-fired generation.

Improving watershed management

Exelon’s business depends on access to reliable and adequate water supplies.

Water is essential to produce electricity — it drives our hydroelectric facilities

and cools our thermal generation stations.

We recognize that water is a shared resource that is critical to communities, economic development and wildlife, and we work to minimize our impacts while preserving the long-term viability of this valued resource.

Guided by our Water Resource Management Policy, we address site-specific,

water-related opportunities and risks. Engaging with relevant stakeholders at the local level enables us to most effectively address these specific water challenges. As we look toward the future, we anticipate that water will be a key challenge for Exelon and many other businesses globally. Water scarcity is a critical risk for our industry with the potential to be exacerbated by the effects of climate change. With changing weather patterns and growing competition for existing resources, effective water management is increasingly important.

Exelon is continually working to define the scope of this issue, including through climate scenario analysis, to refine our management strategies.

Managing waste responsibly

Through the efforts of our employees and contractors, we achieved our 2020 corporate goals to recycle at least 75 percent of our municipal solid waste and to meet an overall total recycling rate of at least 90 percent for combined municipal solid waste and industrial solid waste.

We manage used nuclear fuel safely.

As the largest nuclear power plant operator in the United States, nuclear safety

is a fundamental element of our license to operate. We diligently manage

nuclear wastes — both low-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel —

safely, securely and responsibly.

Impact

Reducing our air emissi​ons

Improving watershed management

Managing waste responsibly

Reducing our air emissions