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Employees volunteer more than 1,000 hours through Constellation Energy Days of Caring BALTIMORE, Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Constellation Energy (NYSE:CEG) today announced that it, along with its more than 10,000 employees, continued the tradition of generous community support by contributing $5.1 million to 2007 United Way Campaigns where Constellation Energy and its subsidiaries have operations, once again distinguishing the company as the largest corporate contributor to United Way in the Central Maryland, Calvert County, Md., and Greater Oswego County, N.Y., areas. Through employee contributions and the company's corporate matching gift -- 50 cents for every dollar contributed -- Constellation Energy's United Way Campaign contributions totaled $5.1 million, topping the $4.7 million contributed last year. Employee contributions also increased to $3.4 million this year. Additionally, 93 Constellation Energy employees have become members of the prestigious Alexis DeToqueville Society, generously donating $10,000 dollars to the United Way. "Thanks to the generous spirit of our employees, Constellation Energy once again had a record-breaking year in terms of our support of annual United Way Campaigns in communities where we live and do business," said Mayo A. Shattuck III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Constellation Energy. "The remarkable support of our employees truly helps to make a difference in our communities and illustrates how Constellation Energy and our employees embrace our core value of social responsibility." In addition to being the largest corporate contributor to the United Way of Central Maryland, the United Way of Calvert County, Md., and the United Way of Greater Oswego County, N.Y., Constellation Energy also made substantial contributions to the United Way of the National Capital Area; the United Way of Greater Rochester, N.Y.; the United Way of the Texas Gulf, Texas; and the United Way of Louisville, Ky. Constellation Energy employees also participated in several United Way- sponsored fundraising and community outreach programs across the country, totaling more than 1,000 volunteer hours. In addition, Constellation Energy employees donated their time and energy to several annual Constellation Energy Days of Caring projects, including serving hot meals at Our Daily Bread, a local Baltimore outreach center, donating food to the Ontario, N.Y., food bank, helping to build multiple Habitat for Humanity homes in Baltimore and donating a bus-size load of school supplies to children in need in New York. Constellation Energy (http://www.constellation.com/), a FORTUNE 125 company with 2007 revenues of $21 billion, is the nation's largest competitive supplier of electricity to large commercial and industrial customers and the nation's largest wholesale power seller. Constellation Energy also manages fuels and energy services on behalf of energy intensive industries and utilities. It owns a diversified fleet of 78 generating units located throughout the United States, totaling approximately 8,700 megawatts of generating capacity. The company delivers electricity and natural gas through the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), its regulated utility in Central Maryland. DATASOURCE: Constellation Energy CONTACT: Robert L. Gould or Debra Larsson, both of Constellation Energy, +1-410-470-7433 Web site: http://www.constellation.com/ Company News On-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/084087.html

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