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July 20, 2011
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Constellation Signs USPS Facilities

Constellation Energy has signed an agreement to provide electricity to U.S. Postal Service facilities in New York, Massachusetts and Maine through July 2012, continuing a six-year relationship with USPS. Constellation also currently provides electricity to the USPS in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Ohio.

Constellation to Continue as Rhode Island Manufacturers Association Endorsed Supplier

Constellation Energy has again been chosen as the endorsed energy supplier for the Rhode Island Manufacturers Association (RIMA). Constellation Energy will continue to offer RIMA members a portfolio of energy management products, including competitive electricity supply, renewable energy certificates, and demand response programs. RIMA represents more than 300 manufacturers, of which more than 125 have taken advantage of the RIMA Energy Program since it was developed in 2006.

Tenaska Taylorville Intervenes in Constellation-Exelon Merger Proceeding at FERC

Tenaska Taylorville, LLC moved to intervene in the FERC proceeding addressing the merger application of Exelon and Constellation Energy. Though not labeled as a protest, Tenaska's motion cited Exelon's and Constellation's opposition to the failed sourcing agreement stage of the Illinois clean coal law which would have, among other things, compelled retail suppliers to purchase output from the facility at uncapped above-market prices (while utilities benefited from a cost cap). "The Merger would result in common control of a significantly larger baseload and nuclear generation fleet than either Applicant currently controls. Similarly, the combined entity can be expected to seek to increase its share of the retail electric market in Illinois, the prices in which are driven by wholesale electricity prices," Tenaska said (EC11-83).

FERC Closes Smart Grid Interoperability Rulemaking

FERC declined to initiate a rulemaking regarding smart grid functionality and interoperability with interstate transmission of electric power, and regional and wholesale electricity markets, after concluding that there is insufficient consensus on the five families of standards under consideration by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. FERC terminated docket RM11-2 which had sought comments on the standards.

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