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Exelon management view on Transmission and the “large-load TSA” strategy

1) “Large-load” TSA strategy: purpose and how management says it’s working

Management described their large-load approach as structuring agreements that require “real financial commitments” from new large-load customers tied to the infrastructure needed to serve them, explicitly to protect existing customers from bearing the cost of speculative demand. ¹
Jeanne Jones said their Transmission Security Agreements (TSAs) are intended to be signed before major commitments, with collateral posted “behind” the TSA, and that the process ensures proactive insight into what is “real” demand. ²
Management stated that the recent update to their demand/queue view reflects that they have “weeded out speculative projects,” and that the TSAs are “doing what they should.” ²
They also linked this to capital discipline: management said their $41 billion of capital between now and 2029 “remains unchanged” because they have not put in speculative projects. ²
In the context of FERC’s recent large-load dockets, management said the regulatory direction reinforces the principle of protecting existing customers while ensuring large loads have real commitments, which management tied directly to TSAs filtering speculative requests before significant system investment. ¹

2) Transmission upside (“$12B to $17B”) and how it connects to the strategy

Management said the $12 billion to $17 billion upside opportunity in competitive transmission is not dependent on one theme; they characterized competitive transmission as one of roughly five areas contributing to that opportunity. ³
Management attributed continuing growth to multiple drivers beyond just the TSA “filtering” effect—specifically including data center pipeline-related business, state policies around new generation and old generation retiring, and competitive transmission—and said this growth outlook was expected to continue beyond 2029. ³
Carim (head of transmission/development group via Jeanne’s handoff) quantified the TSA-backed portion of the pipeline: out of 11 GW in the “high-probability” category, management said 4 GW have signed TSAs backed by $1 billion of collateral, while the remaining 7 GW are projects that predated the TSA process but are considered further along and likely to continue. ⁴
Management also said they would continue to study the remaining portion of the slide’s pipeline (they referenced 25 GW to be studied), but emphasized that the visible high-probability demand is already meaningful and being translated into transmission solutions. ⁴

3) Competitive transmission execution: what management said they’re doing now

Management stated they have been very active in PJM over the prior 12 to 18 months and also in other RTOs such as MISO. ⁵
Specifically, they said they filed two projects in MISO Tranche 2.1 in Iowa—the MARS and EASL projects—and expected to hear back from MISO in the fourth quarter. ⁵
Management argued they are positioned to win because they have operational excellence and experience with 765-kV lines (high-voltage lines), and that they are one of very few transmission operators that owns/operates those types of lines that other RTOs seek. ⁵
Management tied this to prior success, saying they were well positioned to be successful as in Western Pennsylvania in the PJM window, and expected to remain active. ⁵

4) “All-of-the-above” framing: transmission is important, but management treats it as one tool among others

Management emphasized that the strategy is not just transmission: they described an “all-of-the-above” approach including transmission and battery/storage (and other resources). ⁶
They said transmission provides “optionality” to move electrons to where needed, while battery storage can shave peaks, avoid transmission and peak pricing, and insulate customers. ⁶
They also indicated that, even though competitive transmission is part of the growth opportunity, they see meaningful capital allocation historically into transmission for these needs, stating that 80% to 100% of their four-year capital increase has been in transmission for these issues over prior planning cycles. ⁷

5) Management’s bottom-line message: discipline + “real demand” drives capital and reliability objectives

The consistent theme across the excerpts is that TSAs and collateral are used to convert large-load interest into committed, financially backed demand before committing significant transmission investment. ²¹
Management’s stated rationale for this approach is explicitly customer-protection: avoid putting existing customers at risk from speculative requests, while ensuring large loads have real commitments. ¹
They presented evidence of the strategy’s impact operationally and financially via queue refinement and capital stability: the TSAs “weeding out speculative projects” is said to be reflected in their updated high-probability demand view, and management claims their $41B capital plan through 2029 is unchanged because speculative projects were not funded. ²

If you want the answer distilled into one sentence: management said TSAs for large loads are designed to filter speculative demand via signed agreements and collateral, and that this “weeding out” supports disciplined transmission planning that aligns with their multi-part ($12B–$17B) competitive transmission upside opportunity. ²³

References

Exelon Corporation (EXC) earnings transcript 2026 - Q2

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