Exelon
The incidents did not come to light until a videotape of the security guards was leaked to news media. It was created in October, 2000 by the merger of PECO Energy Company and Unicom, of Philadelphia and Chicago respectively.As a result, Exelon terminated the security contract of the Wackenhut security firm that had been involved. . The Quality System is ISO 9001:2000 Registered for both the Plattsburgh, NY and Coatesville, PA facilities.
Under this merger, Exelon would have become the largest utility in the United States. Exelon s Political Action Committee (PAC) is EXELONPAC. Exelon is a leading nuclear power plant operator in the United States. Numerous sites in: Exelon does not own the wind farms, but has an agreement for their entire output. Exelon PowerLabs, LLC (a wholly owned subsidiary of Exelon Generation) operates at 4 locations nationwide. Exelon officials eventually apologized and said the risks from the leak were “minimal”, with tritium levels in surrounding wells all found to be below regulatory limits.
Unicom owned Commonwealth Edison. In 2009, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced its plan for a $65,000 fine against Exelon for permitting its contracted security guards that were guarding its Peach Bottom Nuclear Generating Station, a two-reactor nuclear plant located in Delta, Pennsylvania to sleep on the job.
The Coatesville and Plattsburgh facilities are also ISO 17025 accredited through the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation (A2LA). Operating since 1911, Exelon PowerLabs is recognized for its quality, technical expertise, and dedication to client satisfaction. They have evaluated or tested over 3,000 different components, products, and equipment. In 2005, Exelon was required to pay a $602,000 fine for exceeding the permitted sulfur dioxide emission limit from April to October 2004 at its Cromby Generating Station in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Exelon and Illinois state officials waited for four years until 2006 before disclosing that Exelon s Braidwood Nuclear Generating Station, a nuclear plant 60 miles southeast of Chicago, had spilled millions of gallons of water containing tritium, a radioactive form of hydrogen, multiple times over a decade.
The Plattsburgh, NY and Madison, PA facilities specialize in Calibration; the Wilmington, IL facility specializes in Failure Analysis and Component Testing; while the Coatesville, PA location provides all services. Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is an electricity generating and distributing company headquartered in Chicago.
With an extensive investment in laboratory test equipment, the labs annually disposition over 70,000 calibrations, perform over 300 failure investigations, and test over 900 components and products. Exelon has 5.2 million electricity customers and, in the Philadelphia suburbs, 460,000 natural gas customers. In June, 2005 Exelon had full or majority ownership of 19 nuclear reactors in 11 nuclear power plants. On June 30, 2005 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved the merger of Exelon and Public Service Enterprise Group Inc., a New Jersey utility.
