What Exelon Would Have to Do to Save Its $6.8 Billion Pepco Deal

  • Company must address concerns about residential rates rising
  • Exelon CEO Crane has said company needs decision by March 4
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Last week, District of Columbia regulators proposed a set of conditions that had the potential of finally clearing Exelon Corp. to buy Pepco Holdings Inc. for $6.8 billion. At the time, analysts including Guggenheim Securities LLC described the new terms as “minor.”

They aren’t looking so trivial anymore.