Exelon is offering to buy NRG Energy in an all-stock deal worth around $6.2 billion. The offer represents a 37 percent premium to the October 17 closing price for NRG shares. NRG said it would study the offer. An Exelon-NRG merger would create a company with around 47,000 MW of generating capacity, including some 18,000 MW of nuclear. Exelon is the largest nuclear generator in the U.S. NRG is a 44 percent owner of the South Texas nuclear project. It owns 23,000 MW of generating capacity in North America and another 1,000 MW worldwide.
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