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Exelon Corporation, a utility services holding company, engages in the generation, transmission, distribution, and sale of electricity to residential, commercial, industrial, and wholesale customers in northern Illinois. The company also purchases and sells electricity and natural gas on retail basis to customers in southeastern Pennsylvania. It generates electricity through nuclear, fossil, and hydroelectric generation facilities. As of December 31, 2007, Exelon owned generation assets with an aggregate net capacity of 24,808 megawatts. As of the above date, the company distributed electricity to approximately 3.8 million customers in northern Illinois, and approximately 1.6 million customers in southeastern Pennsylvania, as well as natural gas to approximately 480,000 customers in Pennsylvania. Exelon was founded in 1887 and is based in Chicago, Illinois.
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