Employees volunteer more than 1,000 hours through Constellation Energy Days
of Caring
BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Constellation Energy
(NYSE: CEG) today announced that it, along with its more than 10,000
employees, continued the tradition of generous community support by
contributing $5.1 million to 2007 United Way Campaigns where Constellation
Energy and its subsidiaries have operations, once again distinguishing the
company as the largest corporate contributor to United Way in the Central
Maryland, Calvert County, Md., and Greater Oswego County, N.Y., areas.
Through employee contributions and the company's corporate matching
gift -- 50 cents for every dollar contributed -- Constellation Energy's
United Way Campaign contributions totaled $5.1 million, topping the $4.7
million contributed last year. Employee contributions also increased to
$3.4 million this year. Additionally, 93 Constellation Energy employees
have become members of the prestigious Alexis DeToqueville Society,
generously donating $10,000 dollars to the United Way.
"Thanks to the generous spirit of our employees, Constellation Energy
once again had a record-breaking year in terms of our support of annual
United Way Campaigns in communities where we live and do business," said
Mayo A. Shattuck III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of
Constellation Energy. "The remarkable support of our employees truly helps
to make a difference in our communities and illustrates how Constellation
Energy and our employees embrace our core value of social responsibility."
In addition to being the largest corporate contributor to the United
Way of Central Maryland, the United Way of Calvert County, Md., and the
United Way of Greater Oswego County, N.Y., Constellation Energy also made
substantial contributions to the United Way of the National Capital Area;
the United Way of Greater Rochester, N.Y.; the United Way of the Texas
Gulf, Texas; and the United Way of Louisville, Ky.
Constellation Energy employees also participated in several United Way-
sponsored fundraising and community outreach programs across the country,
totaling more than 1,000 volunteer hours. In addition, Constellation Energy
employees donated their time and energy to several annual Constellation
Energy Days of Caring projects, including serving hot meals at Our Daily
Bread, a local Baltimore outreach center, donating food to the Ontario,
N.Y., food bank, helping to build multiple Habitat for Humanity homes in
Baltimore and donating a bus-size load of school supplies to children in
need in New York.
Constellation Energy (http://www.constellation.com), a FORTUNE 125
company with 2007 revenues of $21 billion, is the nation's largest
competitive supplier of electricity to large commercial and industrial
customers and the nation's largest wholesale power seller. Constellation
Energy also manages fuels and energy services on behalf of energy intensive
industries and utilities. It owns a diversified fleet of 78 generating
units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately 8,700
megawatts of generating capacity. The company delivers electricity and
natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its
regulated utility in Central Maryland.
SOURCE Constellation Energy
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CONTACT:
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Constellation Energy, +1-410-470-7433
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