Exelon Releases 2021 Corporate Sustainability Report Highlighting the Company’s Responsible Stewardship of the Clean Energy Transition, While Delivering Sustainable Value
July 28 2022 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
From a $6.6 billion energy infrastructure
investment to helping connect more than 650,000 customers to $450
million in energy assistance last year, highlights in the CSR cover
hundreds of initiatives that have made a positive impact on the
energy transmission and distribution company’s 10 million
customers, the communities it serves and the environment.
Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC) has released its 2021 Corporate
Sustainability Report (CSR), a comprehensive overview of the
company’s focus on clean, reliable, affordable and equitable energy
delivery and energy solutions for its customers and communities. As
the nation’s largest energy transmission and distribution company,
Exelon continues to steward the clean energy transition and power
the economic health and well-being of the large and diverse
metropolitan areas that it serves.
“Exelon’s strategic investments in environmental, social and
governance priorities are both the right thing to do and a clear
competitive advantage for our company,” said Chris Crane, Exelon
president and CEO. “Our unwavering commitment to safety,
operational excellence, diversity, financial health, strong ethical
standards and controls, and prudent, customer-focused investment in
reliability continues to enhance the sustainable value Exelon
delivers to all of its stakeholders. Exelon will continue to lead
by example in the years ahead as the climate crisis, along with
systemic inequity in our communities, further shape what is
imperative to our business and challenge us to do even more in
alignment with our core values.”
The 2021 Exelon CSR covers eight strategic focus areas:
Advancing clean energy and affordable energy choices
Exelon provides clean energy solutions and technologies to
combat climate change, reduce local air pollution and power a
healthy, sustainable, equitable future. In 2021, the company
invested more than $6.6 billion in energy infrastructure, with an
additional $29 billion planned for 2022–2025. These investments are
critical to bringing more renewables online and enabling the
electrification of the transportation sector.
Delivering world-class customer experiences
Exelon empowers customers by providing affordable services and
by helping them take charge of their energy needs. Last year,
customers at Exelon’s six local energy delivery companies saved
22.8 million MWh through energy efficiency programs – the
equivalent energy use of more than one million homes for one
year.
Safely powering reliability and resilience
Exelon is preparing the grid to adapt to changing conditions and
withstand more extreme weather and disruptive events. In 2021,
Exelon’s customers experienced strong electric service reliability
as a result of the company's strategic investments in energy grid
resiliency and modernization.
Supporting communities
Exelon helps power the economic health and well-being of the
diverse communities it serves, and advocates for equity. Spending
with diversity-certified suppliers reached $2.4 billion in 2021,
accounting for 40 percent of Exelon’s sourced spending. Also last
year, the company invested more than $14 million to support 65
workforce development programs across its six utilities, and more
than 5,000 people in underserved communities participated in
training for jobs in the energy industry.
Managing climate change risks and opportunities
Exelon is evolving energy systems to enable decarbonization and
build resilience, while maintaining energy access and
affordability. In August 2021, Exelon announced its Path to Clean
commitment to reduce operations-driven emissions 50 percent by 2030
and achieve net-zero operations by 2050, while also supporting
customers and communities in achieving their clean energy
goals.
Environmental responsibility
Exelon works to reduce impacts to watersheds and biodiversity by
improving processes to reduce company waste and emissions, and by
being responsible stewards of the resources it uses. The company
supports efforts to restore and maintain more than 13,000 acres of
fragile ecosystems in rights-of-way and at company facilities
across its service areas, and 60 Exelon locations or programs now
have National Wildlife Federation habitat certifications.
A safe, innovative and rewarding workplace
Exelon’s culture – focused on safety, innovation and diversity –
permeates all levels of the company and keeps employees engaged in
meaningful and important work. Exelon was named among
DiversityInc’s Top 50 Companies for Diversity in 2021.
Corporate governance
From the board of directors to the supply chain, Exelon drives
sustainability through a careful understanding of risk and
accountability, while providing resources to support employees and
clear expectations for compliance with the company’s policies and
values.
Progress continues
Additional highlights in each of these focus areas are included
in the full report, and progress consistent with the company’s core
values has continued into 2022. Exelon’s efforts to be a
sustainability and ESG leader this year include:
- In February, Exelon urged Congress to fund the Low-Income Home
Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) at the highest level
possible.
- Exelon’s new $36 million Racial Equity Capital Fund began
accepting applications from minority-owned businesses in May to
help fuel growth and spur job opportunities in underserved and
under-resourced communities.
- In June, Exelon announced a new travel benefit to ensure
employees and their dependents covered under Exelon’s medical plan
have access to the health and well-being care they need, even if
it’s not available near where they live.
The CSR presents information and data that reflects the
current-day footprint of the Exelon transmission and distribution
energy business in the 2021 calendar year, prior to Exelon’s
February 2022 separation from its power generation business to an
independent business, Constellation.
More information about Exelon's commitment to sustainability is
available at exeloncorp.com/sustainability.
About Exelon
Exelon (Nasdaq: EXC) is a Fortune
200 company and the nation’s largest utility company, serving more
than 10 million customers through six fully regulated transmission
and distribution utilities — Atlantic City Electric (ACE),
Baltimore Gas and Electric (BGE), Commonwealth Edison (ComEd),
Delmarva Power & Light (DPL), PECO Energy Company (PECO), and
Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco). More than 18,000 Exelon
employees dedicate their time and expertise to supporting our
communities through reliable, affordable and efficient energy
delivery, workforce development, equity, economic development and
volunteerism. Follow Exelon on Twitter @Exelon.
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