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EXELON CORP

For the period ended Mar 31, 2024. Filed May 2, 2024.

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Mar 31, 2024 · Filed May 2, 2024

EXC$45.65+0.1%Stored close · as of Nov 9, 2026

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Liquidity and Capital Resources

Liquidity and Capital Resources (All Registrants)

All results included throughout the liquidity and capital resources section are presented on a GAAP basis.

The Registrants’ operating and capital expenditures requirements are provided by internally generated cash flows from operations, as well as funds from external sources in the capital markets and through bank borrowings. The Registrants’ businesses are capital intensive and require considerable capital resources. Each of the Registrants annually evaluates its financing plan, dividend practices, and credit line sizing, focusing on maintaining its investment grade ratings while meeting its cash needs to fund capital requirements, including construction expenditures, retire debt, pay dividends, and fund pension and OPEB obligations. The Registrants spend a significant amount of cash on capital improvements and construction projects that have a long-term return on investment. Additionally, the Utility Registrants operate in rate-regulated environments in which the amount of new investment recovery may be delayed or limited and where such recovery takes place over an extended period of time. Each Registrant’s access to external financing on reasonable terms depends on its credit ratings and current overall capital market business conditions, including that of the utility industry in general. If these conditions deteriorate to the extent that the Registrants no longer have access to the capital markets at reasonable terms, the Registrants have access to credit facilities with aggregate bank commitments of $4.0 billion. The Registrants utilize their credit facilities to support their commercial paper programs, provide for other short-term borrowings, and to issue letters of credit. See the “Credit Matters and Cash Requirements” section below for additional information. The Registrants expect cash flows to be sufficient to meet operating expenses, financing costs, and capital expenditure requirements. See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Registrants’ debt and credit agreements.

Cash Flows from Operating Activities

The Utility Registrants' cash flows from operating activities primarily result from the transmission and distribution of electricity and, in the case of PECO, BGE, and DPL, gas distribution services. The Utility Registrants' distribution services are provided to an established and diverse base of retail customers. The Utility Registrants' future cash flows may be affected by the economy, weather conditions, future legislative initiatives, future regulatory proceedings with respect to their rates or operations, and their ability to achieve operating cost reductions. Additionally, ComEd is required to purchase CMCs from participating nuclear-powered generating facilities for a five-year period that began in June 2022, and all of its costs of doing so will be recovered through a rider. The price to be paid for each CMC is established through a competitive bidding process. ComEd will provide net payments to, or collect net payments from, customers for the difference between customer credits issued and the credit to be received from the participating nuclear-powered generating facilities. ComEd’s cash flows are affected by the establishment of CMC prices and the timing of recovering costs through the CMC regulatory asset.

See Note 3 — Regulatory Matters of the 2023 Form 10-K and Notes 2 — Regulatory Matters and 11 — Commitments and Contingencies of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on regulatory and legal proceedings and proposed legislation.

The following table provides a summary of the change in cash flows from operating activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 by Registrant:

Increase (decrease) in cash flows from operating activitiesExelonComEdPECOBGEPHIPepcoDPLACE
Net income (loss)$(11)$(48)$(17)$64$13$10$6$(4)
Adjustments to reconcile net income to cash:
Non-cash operating activities129115—(34)24(4)1719
Collateral received (paid), net22112—221892412045
Income taxes(2)6(1)—441(2)
Pension and non-pension postretirement benefit contributions(67)18(2)(17)(65)——(6)
Regulatory assets and liabilities, net576653(35)31(69)9(28)(50)
Changes in working capital and other assets and liabilities(338)(84)(72)(58)(63)(38)(6)(18)
Increase (decrease) in cash flows from operating activities$508$672$(127)$8$33$5$110$(16)

Changes in the Registrants' cash flows from operations were generally consistent with changes in each Registrant’s respective results of operations, as adjusted by changes in working capital in the normal course of business, except as discussed below. See above for additional information related to cash flows from Generation. Significant operating cash flow impacts for the Registrants and Generation for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:

See Note 14 — Supplemental Financial Information of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and the Registrants’ Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for additional information onnon-cash operating activities.

Changes incollateral depended upon whether the Registrant was in a net mark-to-market liability or asset position, and collateral may have been required to be posted with or collected from its counterparties. In addition, the collateral posting and collection requirements differed depending on whether the transactions were on an exchange or in the over-the-counter markets. Changes in collateral for the Registrants are dependent upon the credit exposure of procurement contracts that may require suppliers to post collateral. The change in Collateral received (paid), net, when comparing the three month ended March 31, 2024 to the three month ended March 31, 2023, is due to stable energy prices for the current year. See Note 8 — Derivative Financial Instruments for additional information.

See Note 6 — Income Taxes of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements and the Registrants' Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for additional information onincome taxes.

Changes in Pension and non-pension postretirement benefit contributions relates to Exelon's increased contributions to the Qualified Plans during the three months ended March 31, 2024. See Note 14 — Retirement Benefits of the 2023 Form 10-K for additional information.

Changes inregulatory assets and liabilities, net, are due to the timing of cash payments for costs recoverable, or cash receipts for costs recovered, under our regulatory mechanisms differs from the recovery period of those costs. Included within the changes is energy efficiency spend for ComEd of $80 million and $72 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Also included within the changes is energy efficiency and demand response programs spend for BGE, Pepco, DPL and ACE of $28 million, $10 million, $4 million, and $8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and $33 million, $14 million, $5 million, and $4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023, respectively. PECO had no energy efficiency and demand response programs spend recorded to the regulatory asset for the three months ended March 31,

2024 and 2023. See Note 2 — Regulatory Matters of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

Changes in working capital and other assets and liabilities for the Utility Registrants and Exelon Corporate totaled $(276) million and $(338) million, respectively. The change in working capital and other noncurrent assets and liabilities for Exelon Corporate and the Utility Registrants is dependent upon the normal course of operations for all Registrants. For ComEd, it is also dependent upon whether the participating nuclear-powered generating facilities are owed money from ComEd as a result of the established pricing for CMCs. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the established pricing resulted in ComEd owing payments to nuclear-powered generating facilities, which is reported within the cash flows from operations as a change in accounts payable and accrued expense.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

The following table provides a summary of the change in cash flows from investing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 by Registrant:

Increase (decrease) in cash flows from investing activitiesExelonComEdPECOBGEPHIPepcoDPLACE
Capital expenditures$114$23$(26)$26$108$35$—$72
Proceeds from sales of assets and businesses2———————
Changes in intercompany money pool—————(134)——
Other investing activities(12)—25(8)(8)——
Increase (decrease) in cash flows from investing activities$104$23$(24)$31$100$(107)$—$72

Significant investing cash flow impacts for the Registrants for three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:

Changes incapital expenditures are primarily due to the timing of cash expenditures for capital projects. See the "Credit Matters and Cash Requirements" section below for additional information on projected capital expenditure spending for the Utility Registrants. See Note — Discontinued Operations of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for capital expenditures related to Generation prior to the separation.

Changes inintercompany money pool are driven by short-term borrowing needs. Refer to more information regarding the intercompany money pool below.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

The following table provides a summary of the change in cash flows from financing activities for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 by Registrant:

(Decrease) increase in cash flows from financing activitiesExelonComEdPECOBGEPHIPepcoDPLACE
Changes in short-term borrowings, net$963$296$(71)$235$20$167$52$(199)
Long-term debt, net(1,344)(975)——752550—
Changes in intercompany money pool———————134
Dividends paid on common stock(23)(7)1(12)—(3)(3)(1)
Distributions to member————(6)———
Contributions from parent/member—(147)250(237)8285518
Other financing activities612——(4)(1)(1)(1)
(Decrease) increase in cash flows from financing activities$(398)$(821)$180$(14)$167$196$153$(49)

Significant financing cash flow impacts for the Registrants for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 were as follows:

Changes in short-term borrowings, net, is driven by repayments on and issuances of notes due in less than 365 days. See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on short-term borrowings for the Registrants.

Long-term debt, net, varies due to debt issuances and redemptions each year. See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on debt issuances. Refer to the debt redemptions table below for additional information.

Changes in intercompany money poolare driven by short-term borrowing needs. Refer below for more information regarding the intercompany money pool.

Exelon’s ability to paydividends on its common stock depends on the receipt of dividends paid by its operating subsidiaries. The payments of dividends to Exelon by its subsidiaries in turn depend on their results of operations and cash flows and other items affecting retained earnings. See Note 18 — Commitments and Contingencies of the 2023 Form 10-K for additional information on dividend restrictions. See below for quarterly dividends declared.

Debt

See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Registrants’ debt issuances.

During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the following long-term debt was retired and/or redeemed:

CompanyTypeInterest RateMaturityAmount
ExelonSMBC Term Loan AgreementSOFR plus 0.85%April 8, 2024$500
ExelonSoftware Licensing Agreement3.62%December 1, 2025$1
PepcoFirst Mortgage Bonds3.60%March 15, 2024$400

Dividends

Quarterly dividends declared by the Exelon Board of Directors during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and for the second quarter of 2024 were as follows:

PeriodDeclaration DateShareholder of Record DateDividend Payable DateCash per Share(a)
First Quarter 2024February 21, 2024March 4, 2024March 15, 2024$0.3800
Second Quarter 2024April 30, 2024May 13, 2024June 14, 2024$0.3800

(a)Exelon's Board of Directors approved an updated dividend policy for 2024. The 2024 quarterly dividend will be $0.38 per share.

Credit Matters and Cash Requirements

The Registrants fund liquidity needs for capital investment, working capital, energy hedging, and other financial commitments through cash flows from continuing operations, public debt offerings, commercial paper markets, and large, diversified credit facilities. The credit facilities include $4.0 billion in aggregate total commitments of which $2.7 billion was available to support additional commercial paper as of March 31, 2024, and of which no financial institution has more than 6% of the aggregate commitments for the Registrants. The Registrants had access to the commercial paper markets and had availability under their revolving credit facilities during the three months ended March 31, 2024 to fund their short-term liquidity needs, when necessary. Exelon Corporate and the Utility Registrants each have a 5-year revolving credit facility. See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. The Registrants routinely review the sufficiency of their liquidity position, including appropriate sizing of credit facility commitments, by performing various stress test scenarios, such as commodity price movements, increases in margin-related transactions, changes in hedging levels, and the impacts of hypothetical credit downgrades. The Registrants have continued to closely monitor events in the financial markets and the financial institutions associated with the credit facilities, including monitoring credit ratings and outlooks, credit default swap levels, capital raising, and merger activity. See PART I. ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS of the 2023 Form 10-K for additional information regarding the effects of uncertainty in the capital and credit markets.

The Registrants believe their cash flows from operating activities, access to credit markets, and their credit facilities provide sufficient liquidity to support the estimated future cash requirements.

On August 4, 2022, Exelon executed an equity distribution agreement (“Equity Distribution Agreement”) with certain sales agents and forward sellers and certain forward purchasers establishing an ATM equity distribution program under which it may offer and sell shares of its common stock, having an aggregate gross sales price of up to $1.0 billion. Exelon has no obligation to offer or sell any shares of common stock under the Equity Distribution Agreement and may at any time suspend or terminate offers and sales under the Equity Distribution Agreement. As of December 31, 2023, $858 million of Common stock remained available for sale pursuant to the ATM program. For the period ended March 31, 2024, Exelon did not issue any shares of common stock under the ATM program and did not enter into any forward sale agreements.

The following table presents the incremental collateral that each Utility Registrant would have been required to provide in the event each Utility Registrant lost its investment grade credit rating at March 31, 2024 and available credit facility capacity prior to any incremental collateral at March 31, 2024:

PJM Credit Policy CollateralOther Incremental Collateral Required(a)Available Credit Facility Capacity Prior to Any Incremental Collateral
ComEd$—$—$660
PECO—27598
BGE—47188
Pepco——300
DPL—12300
ACE——300

(a)Represents incremental collateral related to natural gas procurement contracts.

Capital Expenditure Spending

As of March 31, 2024, the most recent estimates of capital expenditures for plant additions and improvements for 2024 are as follows:

(In millions)TransmissionDistributionGasTotal(a)
ExelonN/AN/AN/A$7,425
ComEd4751,675N/A2,150
PECO751,2254001,700
BGE4756255001,600
PHI5751,3251001,975
Pepco225750N/A975
DPL200300100625
ACE125275N/A400

(a)Numbers rounded to the nearest $25M and may not sum due to rounding.

Projected capital expenditures and other investments are subject to periodic review and revision to reflect changes in economic conditions and other factors.

Retirement Benefits

Management considers various factors when making pension funding decisions, including actuarially determined minimum contribution requirements under ERISA, contributions required to avoid benefit restrictions and at-risk status as defined by the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (the Act), management of the pension obligation, and regulatory implications. The Act requires the attainment of certain funding levels to avoid benefit restrictions (such as an inability to pay lump sums or to accrue benefits prospectively), and at-risk status (which triggers higher minimum contribution requirements and participant notification). The projected contributions reflect a funding strategy to make annual contributions with the objective of achieving 100% funded status on an ABO basis over time. This funding strategy helps minimize volatility of future period required pension contributions. Exelon’s estimated annual qualified pension contributions will be $93 million in 2024. Unlike the qualified pension plans, Exelon’s non-qualified pension plans are not funded, given that they are not subject to statutory minimum contribution requirements.

While OPEB plans are also not subject to statutory minimum contribution requirements, Exelon does fund certain of its plans. For Exelon's funded OPEB plans, contributions generally equal accounting costs, however, Exelon’s management has historically considered several factors in determining the level of contributions to its OPEB plans, including liabilities management, levels of benefit claims paid, and regulatory implications (amounts deemed prudent to meet regulatory expectations and best assure continued rate recovery).

To the extent interest rates decline significantly or the pension and OPEB plans earn less than the expected asset returns, annual pension contribution requirements in future years could increase. Conversely, to the extent interest rates increase significantly or the pension and OPEB plans earn greater than the expected asset returns, annual pension and OPEB contribution requirements in future years could decrease. Additionally, expected contributions could change if Exelon changes its pension or OPEB funding strategy.

See Note 14 — Retirement Benefits of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements of the 2023 Form 10-K for additional information on pension and OPEB contributions.

Credit Facilities

Exelon Corporate, ComEd, and BGE meet their short-term liquidity requirements primarily through the issuance of commercial paper. PECO meets its short-term liquidity requirements primarily through the issuance of commercial paper and borrowings from the Exelon intercompany money pool. Pepco, DPL, and ACE meet their short-term liquidity requirements primarily through the issuance of commercial paper and borrowings from the PHI intercompany money pool. PHI Corporate meets its short-term liquidity requirements primarily through the issuance of short-term notes and the Exelon intercompany money pool. The Registrants may use their respective credit facilities for general corporate purposes, including meeting short-term funding requirements and the issuance of letters of credit.

See Note 9 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the Registrants’ credit facilities and short term borrowing activity.

Security Ratings

The Registrants’ access to the capital markets, including the commercial paper market, and their respective financing costs in those markets, may depend on the securities ratings of the entity that is accessing the capital markets.

The Registrants’ borrowings are not subject to default or prepayment as a result of a downgrading of securities, although such a downgrading of a Registrant’s securities could increase fees and interest charges under that Registrant’s credit agreements.

As part of the normal course of business, the Registrants enter into contracts that contain express provisions or otherwise permit the Registrants and their counterparties to demand adequate assurance of future performance when there are reasonable grounds for doing so. In accordance with the contracts and applicable contracts law, if the Registrants are downgraded by a credit rating agency, it is possible that a counterparty would attempt to rely on such a downgrade as a basis for making a demand for adequate assurance of future performance, which could include the posting of collateral. See Note 8 — Derivative Financial Instruments of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on collateral provisions.

The credit ratings for the Registrants did not change for the three months ended March 31, 2024.

Intercompany Money Pool

To provide an additional short-term borrowing option that will generally be more favorable to the borrowing participants than the cost of external financing, both Exelon and PHI operate an intercompany money pool. Maximum amounts contributed to and borrowed from the money pool by participant and the net contribution or borrowing as of March 31, 2024, are presented in the following table:

During the Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 · At March 31, 2024
Exelon Intercompany Money PoolMaximumContributedMaximumBorrowedContributed(Borrowed)
Exelon Corporate$626$—$330
PECO55(255)—
BSC—(420)(302)
PHI Corporate—(86)(73)
PCI45—45
During the Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 · At March 31, 2024
PHI Intercompany Money PoolMaximumContributedMaximumBorrowed(Borrowed)Contributed
Pepco$171$—$134
DPL—(33)—
ACE—(171)(134)

Shelf Registration Statements

As of January 1st, 2024 Exelon and the Utility Registrants had an effective combined shelf registration statement, unlimited in amount (“Legacy Registration Statement”). On February 20, 2024, Exelon Corporation filed with the SEC Post-Effective Amendment 1 to its Legacy Registration Statement to remove and withdraw registration of all registered securities of ACE, DPL, PECO and BGE.

On February 21, 2024, Exelon Corporation, together with Pepco and ComEd as co-registrants, filed with the SEC Post-Effective Amendment 2 to its Legacy Registration Statement. Post-Effective Amendment 2 amends the Legacy Registration Statement to include an authorized limit of $7,200 million, which can be used to issue Exelon Corporation debt securities and equity securities, as well as Pepco and ComEd debt securities, through the expiration date of August 3, 2025. On February 21, 2024, PECO and BGE filed with the SEC a standalone effective shelf registration statement, unlimited in amount, which can be used to issue PECO and BGE debt securities through the expiration date of February 20, 2027. The ability of Exelon Corporation, ComEd, Pepco,

PECO and BGE to sell securities off their corresponding registration Statements, or to access the private placement markets, will depend on a number of factors at the time of the proposed sale, including other required regulatory approvals, as applicable, the current financial condition of the Registrant, its securities ratings and market conditions.

As a result of Post-Effect Amendment 1, DPL and ACE filed to deregister all securities that remain unsold. DPL and ACE periodically issue securities through the private placement markets. DPL and ACE's ability to access the private placement markets will depend on a number of factors at the time of the proposed sale, including other required regulatory approvals, as applicable, current financial condition, securities ratings and market conditions.

Regulatory Authorizations

The Utility Registrants are required to obtain short-term and long-term financing authority from Federal and State Commissions as follows:

Short-term Financing Authority (e) · Remaining Long-term Financing Authority
Commission · Expiration Date · Amount · Commission · Expiration Date · Amount
ComEd(a) (b)FERCDecember 31, 2025$2,500ICCJanuary 1, 2027$2,368
PECOFERCDecember 31, 20251,500PAPUCDecember 31, 2024550
BGE(c)FERCDecember 31, 2025700MDPSCN/A1,100
PepcoFERCDecember 31, 2025500MDPSC / DCPSCDecember 31, 2025375
DPLFERCDecember 31, 2025500MDPSC / DEPSCDecember 31, 2025375
ACENJBPUDecember 31, 2025350NJBPUDecember 31, 2024550

(a)On June 29, 2023, ComEd filed an application for $2 billion in new money long-term debt financing authority from the ICC and received approval on January 1, 2024.

(b)On February 20, 2024, ComEd filed an application for $750 million in refinancing authority from the ICC, which was approved on April 18, 2024. The refinancing authority under the approved application has an effective date of May 1, 2024, and extends the expiration date to May 1, 2027.

(c)The financing authority filed with MDPSC does not have an expiration date, while the financing authority filed with DCPSC and DEPSC have an expiration date of December 31, 2025.

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