Power for the People

摘要

John Rowe, 63, has been chief executive officer of Exelon since 2000. Based in Chicago, Exelon is one of the nation's largest utilities (2007 revenues: $19 billion), serving about 5.4 million electricity customers and 480,000 gas customers in Illinois and Pennsylvania. Its 10 nuclear plants constitute about 20 percent of the U.S. nuclear industry's generating capacity. This year Exelon came out with an ambitious plan to offset or displace its current carbon footprint-15 million metric tons of greenhouse emissions annually-by 2020. Rowe spoke with newsweek's Daniel Gross.