Exelon Leads Megawatt Merger
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Country's largest utility to be created in a merger with Public Service Enterprise Group.
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The creation of the country&#39;s biggest utility is designed largely to make three troubled nuclear power plants in southern New Jersey more profitable, executives from Exelon Corp.
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NEWARK, NJ -- Exelon Corp.&#39;s plan to acquire Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. for $12 billion in stock -- forming the country&#39;s biggest utility -- could face deep scrutiny from regulators concerned about such a behemoth.
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French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France announced their long-awaited merger on Monday, creating the world&#39;s fourth biggest energy company by market capitalisation.
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Physicists have dreamt about it for decades: harnessing the fusion process that powers the sun to make clean, safe and limitless energy. A multinational pact signed Tuesday may bring that dream a step closer to reality.
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Two of the nation&#39;s  biggest power companies are teaming up with a solar start-up to  create one of the world&#39;s largest solar power projects, which  they say could make electricity at a competitive price.
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The boards of French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France (GDF) approved at separate meetings Sunday a merger creating a new European power giant, participants told AFP.
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Dynegy Inc., owner of power plants in 12 US states, has agreed to buy Sithe Energies Inc. from Exelon Corp. for $135 million, the first acquisition since the company began selling assets to repay debt in 2002.
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Exelon Corp. has agreed to buy Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. for roughly $12.2 billion in stock, the two companies said Monday.
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Exelon Corp. is acquiring Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. in a &#36;12 billion stock deal that would create the nation's largest power generation company with customers in Illinois, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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Shareholders in French telecommunications equipment maker Alcatel and US group Lucent were holding separate general assemblies on a merger to create a giant valued at 21.5 billion euros (27 billion dollars).
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Exelon Corp. on Wednesday cast doubt   on its ability to complete a planned $18.5 billion takeover of   Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. due to difficulty   obtaining approval from New Jersey regulators.
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French energy group Suez and state-owned Gaz de France will announce Monday a decision on whether to merge into what would be one of Europe&#39;s biggest power companies, the French presidency said Saturday.
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Exelon, the Chicago-based energy group, is in advanced talks to clinch a deal to buy New Jerseyâs PSE&amp;G for about $12bn in stock, according to people familiar with the talks.
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British group Scottish Power has accepted a takeover bid worth 11.6 billion pounds (17.15 billion euros, 22.55 billion dollars) from Spain's second-biggest power company Iberdrola, a move that is set to create Europe's third biggest utility group.
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The proposed merger of Public Service Enterprise Group and Exelon will result in the elimination of 900 jobs in New Jersey, most of them at the PSEG unit that operates three nuclear power plants in Salem County.
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Johnson & Johnson's $25.4 billion takeover of Guidant Corp. and the $35 billion union of Sprint Corp. and Nextel Communications Inc. are leading the busiest quarter for mergers in more than four years.  -The Washington Post