Stewardship

Exelon protects our shared natural environment through conservation and sustainable practices. We work to reduce our impacts on wildlife and enhance natural habitats. We conserve energy within our own operations. We also help customers use less energy and save money with tools that allow them to make smart choices.

Preserving habitats and biodiversity

All living things matter.

We have a variety of plants and animals in our shared environment, but habitat and biodiversity are more than that. All living things are vital to the ecosystems in which they live.

Aquatic ecosystems and migratory fish passages

For our facilities with dams in fish migration areas, we have evaluated and installed lifts or ladders, depending on the need, to allow migrating fish to travel upstream. In 2020, 17 species of fish passed through the Conowingo East Fish Lift (EFL) for a total of 49,469 fish, including the 485 American shad. This year represented the 30th season of fish passage operations and the 24th year of volitional fish passage at the EFL.

Terrestrial habitats and wildlife

Our generating stations and rights-of-way traverse thousands of acres of land, which we carefully manage to protect habitats of plant and animal species. As we manage vegetation around transmission lines, we also work to benefit plants and wildlife that require open, low-growing habitats.

Exelon has a longstanding partnership with the Wildlife Habitat Council to restore and enhance wildlife habitats at our facilities and where we have rights-of-way. Exelon has been a member of the council for more than 15 years and maintains 50 WHC sites and 70 National Wildlife Federation certified sites.

Prioritizing energy efficiency

Exelon helps customers conserve and be good environmental stewards too.

Exelon’s utilities help customers save energy and reduce their monthly bills through energy efficiency, real-time pricing and demand response programs. These tools allow customers to make smart energy choices to make their homes and businesses more efficient. Using less energy benefits the environment and reduces the need for new power plants.

Exelon utilities offer some of the nation’s largest energy efficiency programs.

In 2020, through a combination of new and prior-year investments, our Exelon utilities helped customers save over 22.3 million MWh of energy through the ComEd and PECO Smart Ideas® programs, BGE Smart Energy Savers Program® and PHI Home Energy Savings Program.® This equates to almost 8.1 million metric tons of CO2e emissions avoided, the equivalent of nearly 932,000 homes’ energy use for one year or the carbon sequestered by 10.5 million acres of U.S. forest in one year.