[Chris Crane]

(CEO Exelon) - digg

those who scream the loudest

Ties to United Nations HeforShe movement

No more 'false promises' to coal regions —

Exelon CEO

Peter Behr, E&E News reporter

Energywire: Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Chris Crane, president and CEO of Exelon Corp., yesterday called on energy companies to support grassroots demands on Washington for climate action through policies aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions.

Speaking to a Brookings Institution forum, Crane — who leads the largest U.S. nuclear energy producer — repeated his company's case for federally mandated payments to money-losing reactors in the U.S. because of their zero-carbon electric power output.

He suggested that support for at-risk coal and nuclear plants ought to be case by case, based on their importance to grid security, appearing to diverge from the Trump administration's 18-month campaign to channel revenues to uneconomic coal and nuclear plants alike.

On the climate threat, Crane said, "It's just imperative that we build the tent that can help to make the story known and we take it away from what has become just a polarizing partisan bickering."

Crane said companies that produce zero-carbon electricity should focus on expanding the reach of their message by 2020.

"We can't make false promises to parts of the country that we're going to make fossil fuel cool again. We have to worry about what this is going to do to the whole country," Crane said, speaking of the carbon emissions from power plants that burn coal, natural gas and oil.

https://www.eenews.net/stories/1060104061

AEGIS London announces board additions

14th January 2019

Chris Crane is a tremendous addition to our board. He is one of the US energy industry’s most experienced and respected senior executives.”

https://www.reinsurancene.ws/aegis-london-announces-board-additions/

It's Time for Environmentalists and the Energy Industry to Work Together

By Julia Stasch Chris Crane

October 12, 2018

The United Nations just gave the world a major wake-up call in the form of a report finding that business as usual will push us over the edge of climate change crisis in less than two decades. Given this stark warning, it is past time for the business community, our government and fellow citizens to stop arguing over whether we have a problem and to move forward with a pragmatic dialogue to solve it.

http://time.com/5423273/climate-change-united-nations-exelon-macarthur/