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PECO Energy Company, formerly the Philadelphia Electric Company, is an energy utility founded in 1881 and incorporated in 1929. It serves southeastern Pennsylvania and is the largest combination utility in the state. In 2000, it became part of Exelon Corporation after merging with Commonwealth Edison's holding company, Unicom Corp.
PECO serves approximately 1.6 million electric customers and over 511,000 natural gas customers across a franchise service area of 2,100 square miles with a population of 3.8 million people.
PECO's all-time peak electric load occurred on the 22nd of July 2011 at 8,983 megawatts. Its highest winter peak load came on the 20th of December 2004 at 6,838 megawatts.
PECO's electric service area covers all of Philadelphia and Delaware County; most of Bucks, Chester, and Montgomery counties; and the southeastern corner of York County. Its natural gas service also covers a small portion of eastern Lancaster County.
Community activist pressure in the 1970s through the 1980s contributed to the delayed opening of nuclear power plants at PECO's Limerick Generating Station and the temporary cancellation of the planned Limerick 2 plant. Both Limerick 1 and Limerick 2 were ultimately built and producing power by 1990.
The Earth Quaker Action Team began protesting PECO in 2015 to demand that it expand solar energy purchases and source solar power from North Philadelphia to create jobs. At the time, PECO generated just 0.14 percent of its energy portfolio from solar, while the group argued the company could reach up to 20 percent and create as many as 4,000 new Philadelphia jobs.