Exelon Recognized for Sustainability Leadership in 2015 Newsweek Green Rankings
June 10 2015 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
Company ranked No. 61 among 500 largest
publicly traded U.S. companies
Exelon was recognized for its environmental performance by
ranking No. 61 among the 500 largest publicly traded companies in
the U.S. and in the top five among utilities in the 2015 Newsweek
Green Rankings. The company ranked No. 105 among the 500 largest
publicly traded companies worldwide, up from No. 116 in 2014.
“Exelon has focused since its founding on being committed to
operating in ways that minimize impacts to the environment,” said
Chris Gould, senior vice president and chief sustainability officer
of Exelon. “A major part of our business involves helping customers
make smarter use of energy and investing in new and existing
sources of clean energy. The Newsweek Green Rankings are
recognition of our continued commitment to sustainability.”
Newsweek’s Green Rankings evaluate the world’s largest companies
by market value and rate them based on a variety of corporate
sustainability and environmental factors, such as energy, carbon,
water and waste productivity. The rankings also consider company
reputation and board-level oversight. The rankings are the result
of analysis conducted by Newsweek and independent research firms
Corporate Knights Capital and HIP Investor Inc.
Exelon operates one of the nation’s cleanest power generation
fleets and is a major investor and developer of renewable energy.
Exelon is the nation’s 12th largest wind energy producer and a
major developer of solar energy, including through its
Constellation business unit. In 2014, more than 98 percent of the
approximately 37.9 billion gallons of water used by Exelon-operated
facilities per day was directly returned to the source. In
addition, the company increased its companywide recycling rate to
nearly 70 percent in 2014.
In 2014, Exelon was named to the Dow Jones Sustainability North
America Index for the ninth consecutive year in recognition of its
strong sustainability performance. The company was also named in
2014 to CDP’s S&P 500 Climate Disclosure Leadership Index for
reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change.
You can learn more about Exelon’s environmental strategy and
performance on its website.
Exelon Corporation (NYSE: EXC) is the nation’s leading
competitive energy provider, with 2014 revenues of approximately
$27.4 billion. Headquartered in Chicago, Exelon does business in 48
states, the District of Columbia and Canada. Exelon is one of the
largest competitive U.S. power generators, with more than 32,000
megawatts of owned capacity comprising one of the nation’s cleanest
and lowest-cost power generation fleets. The company’s
Constellation business unit provides energy products and services
to more than 2.5 million residential, public sector and business
customers, including more than two-thirds of the Fortune 100.
Exelon’s utilities deliver electricity and natural gas to more than
7.8 million customers in central Maryland (BGE), northern Illinois
(ComEd) and southeastern Pennsylvania (PECO). Follow Exelon on
Twitter @Exelon.
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