More than 9,000 local households have chosen to purchase PECO WIND, a new clean, environmentally-friendly wind power option provided by PECO Energy and Community Energy, Inc., an alternative energy marketing group.

PECO WIND energy has become one of the largest and fastest growing green power programs in the country, according to the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The environmental benefit is the same as planting about two million trees or not driving 25 million miles.

The NREL is the nation's premier laboratory for renewable energy research and development and a leading center for energy efficiency research and development.

PECO WIND's customer enrollments place it among the top 10 utility green energy programs in the country when compared with NREL's 2004 ranking of similar green power programs. A new Top 10 list is expected to be announced sometime during the spring of 2005.

PECO WIND, the first wind energy product offered by a utility in Pennsylvania, is available to PECO's residential and business customers in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia and York counties. PECO WIND is supplied by a new wind power facility in Waymart, Penna., near the Poconos.

PECO WIND is offered to residential customers in 100-kilowatt hour (kWh) blocks for an additional monthly fee of about $2.50 per block, added directly to customers' monthly PECO bill. PECO WIND is also available to business customers. Pennsylvania commercial customers are already supporting more than 100 megawatts of wind generation in the state - more than any other state east of the Mississippi. For more information about PECO WIND or to sign up, customers can call 1-866-WIND-321.

Based in Philadelphia, PECO Energy is an electric and natural gas utility subsidiary of Exelon Corporation. PECO serves 1.5 million electric and 460,000 natural gas customers in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Community Energy, Inc. is the leading retail marketer of wind-generated power nationally. CEI is a for-profit corporation founded in 1999 with the mission to ignite the market and develop the supply of wind and other fuel-free energy sources.

11/26/2004