The Drought Task Force recommends regulatory, operational, and technical solutions, and points out other regions of concern and potential impacts. In order to address changing waterbody conditions due to climate change challenges, Exelon has installed monitoring systems in river bodies with telemetry to increase data availability, trending and station response times. A Daily River Report based on our plant thermal modelling telemetry of upstream river stage and temperature is circulated internally on a daily basis. Our thermal models update 12 times per day, incorporating approximately 30,000 hourly data points. Exelon completed a hydrology/climate modelling study for our Braidwood facility in 2014. Exelon is continuing to pursue cutting-edge research with pre-eminent researchers in an effort to better understand potential climate and water impacts and to help push the current limits of the state of art modelling in the most efficient and effective manner by accessing both public and private institutions. Our pilot hydrologic study linking climate change impacts to a local hydrologic model evaluated potential impacts to the watershed including climate change, population growth, development, and potential changes in environmental protection regulations. The scenarios were run from retro-fitting of model outputs - out to a timeframe of 2040.

Project Results

Drought resilience