NASDAQ: CEG

Our Business

Following the merger with Calpine in January 2026, we are the largest private-sector power producer in the world and the nation’s largest producer of clean and reliable energy. With 55 GWs of capacity from nuclear, natural gas, geothermal, hydro, wind and solar facilities, our fleet has the generating capacity to power the equivalent of 27 million homes, providing about 10% of the nation’s clean energy and delivering the around-the-clock reliability needed to power America’s growing economy. We are also the largest nuclear energy company in the U.S. and a leading competitive retail supplier, serving approximately 2.5 million customer accounts nationwide, including three-fourths of the Fortune 100. We are committed to investing in innovation and new technologies to drive the transition to a reliable, sustainable and secure energy future.

After considering divestitures connected with certain regulatory approvals, our merger with Calpine added approximately 23 GWs across 72 generation and battery storage assets, providing reliable power resources in areas experiencing significant demand growth. Calpine is the nation’s largest generator of electricity from natural gas and geothermal resources, according to S&P Global Market Intelligence, with a strong footprint in Texas, California, and the Northeast regions of the U.S. Natural gas‑fired generation remains an essential component of the U.S. energy transition due to its low emissions profile, high reliability, and potential for future emissions‑abatement technologies. Calpine’s portfolio also includes solar and battery storage assets, strengthening our ability to deliver a balanced mix of baseload, intermediate, and peak generation necessary to maintain reliability of the electrical grid. The high-quality and geographic concentration of Calpine’s dispatchable fleet complements our existing portfolio and enhances our ability to meet growing demand for clean, reliable power nationwide.

Calpine's retail energy platform adds approximately 62 TWhs of annual load to our business, and allows us to expand our C&I and residential customer base, creating incremental sales channels across the country. With the addition of Calpine, we add approximately 2,500 employees who are dedicated to operational excellence and a shared commitment to serving customers.

Refer to Note 2 — Mergers, Acquisitions, and Dispositions of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on our acquisition of Calpine.

Our Operations

We operate the largest emissions-free generation fleet in the nation and are one of the largest competitive electric generation companies in the nation, as measured by owned and contracted MWs. Our fleet is the cleanest large generation portfolio in the country according to the 2025 ERM Report: Benchmarking Air Emissions of the 100 Largest Electric Power Producers in the United States.

At December 31, 2025, our owned generating resources had a total capacity of 31,676 MWs, consisting of the following:

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(a)Net generation capacity is stated at proportionate ownership share. See ITEM 2. PROPERTIES for additional information.

(b)Includes wind, hydroelectric, and solar generating assets.

In addition to the owned generating resources above, at December 31, 2025, we had contracted generation with a total capacity of 4,798 MWs, which represents electric supply procured under unit-specific agreements.

The following map illustrates the locations of our owned generation facilities as of December 31, 2025:

Our Owned Generation Fleet Map(a)(b)

Owned Assets

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(a)One symbol is included per location. Some locations may have multiple generating units. Locations in tight geographic proximity may appear as one symbol. Units that are not currently operational are not captured.

(b)Does not reflect Grand Prairie Generating Station (Gas/Other), located in Alberta, Canada.

We have five reportable segments, as described in the table below, representing the different geographic regions in which our owned generating resources are located and our customer-facing activities are conducted.

Segment(a)

Net Generation Capacity (MWs)(b)
% of Net Generation Capacity Geographic Regions

Mid-Atlantic 10,386 33 % Eastern half of PJM, which includes New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, Delaware, the District of Columbia, and parts of Pennsylvania and North Carolina

Midwest 11,606 37 % Western half of PJM and the United States footprint of MISO, excluding MISO’s Southern Region

New York 3,093 10 % NYISO

ERCOT 4,742 15 % Electric Reliability Council of Texas

Other Power Regions 1,849 5 % New England, South, West, and Canada

Total 31,676 100 %

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(a)See Note 5 — Segment Information of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on reportable segments.

(b)Net generation capacity is stated at proportionate ownership share as of December 31, 2025. See ITEM 2. PROPERTIES for additional information.

The following table shows our total owned sources of electric supply of 204,944 GWhs and 208,434 GWhs for 2025 and 2024, respectively, which includes the proportionate share of output where we have an undivided ownership interest in jointly-owned generating plants.

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(a)Includes wind, hydroelectric, and solar generating assets.

In addition to the owned generation above, we also had purchased power from the spot energy markets that are administered by the RTOs/ISOs and bilateral transactions of 63,999 GWhs and 60,983 GWhs for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. See ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS for additional information on electric supply sources.

Nuclear Facilities

Our nuclear fleet is the nation’s largest, with current generating capacity of approximately 22 GWs, producing 183 TWhs of zero-emissions electricity during 2025 – enough to power 16 million homes and avoid more than 122 million metric tons of carbon emissions according to the EPA GHG Equivalencies Calculator. We have ownership interests in 14 nuclear generating stations currently in service, consisting of 25 units. As of December 31, 2025, we wholly own all our nuclear generating stations, except for undivided ownership interests in five jointly-owned nuclear stations: Quad Cities (75% ownership), Peach Bottom (50% ownership), Salem (42.59% ownership), NMP Unit 2 (82% ownership), and STP (44% ownership), that are reflected in our consolidated financial statements relative to our proportionate ownership interest in each unit. See ITEM 2. PROPERTIES for additional information on our nuclear facilities.

In September 2024, we executed a 20-year PPA with Microsoft that will support the restart of Three Mile Island Unit 1, renamed as the Crane Clean Energy Center, which was retired in 2019 for economic reasons. Under the agreement, Microsoft will purchase the output generated from the renewed plant which includes energy, capacity and emissions-free attributes as part of its goal to help power its data centers in PJM with clean reliable energy. The site, once operational, will have approximately 835 MWs of emissions-free capacity. The timing of the restart is subject to certain regulatory approvals, interconnection-related construction, permitting, and obtaining a renewed operating license. In November 2025, the DOE Office of Energy Dominance Financing issued a guarantee for up to $1.0 billion as an unsecured loan to support the restart of the Crane Clean Energy Center. See Note 16 — Debt and Credit Agreements of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

We operate all of our nuclear generating stations, except for the units at Salem and STP, which are operated by PSEG Nuclear, LLC (an indirect, wholly owned subsidiary of PSEG) and STPNOC, respectively. We have consistently operated our nuclear plants at best-in-class levels. During 2025, 2024, and 2023, our nuclear generating facilities achieved capacity factors(a) of 94.7%, 94.6%, and 94.4%, respectively, at ownership percentage. The nuclear capacity factor has been approximately four percentage points better than the industry average annually since 2013.

Capacity factors, which are significantly affected by the number and duration of refueling and non-refueling outages, can have a material impact on our results of operations. In 2025, we achieved an average refueling outage duration of 22 days for units we operate. We achieved an average refueling outage duration of 19 and 21 days in 2024 and 2023, respectively, against industry averages of 33 and 38 days, respectively.

We manage our scheduled refueling outages to minimize their duration and to maintain high nuclear generating capacity factors, resulting in a stable supply position for our wholesale and retail power marketing activities. In 2025, 2024, and 2023, electric supply (in GWhs) generated from our nuclear generating facilities was 68%, 67%, and 65%, respectively, of our total electric supply.

During scheduled refueling outages, we perform maintenance and equipment upgrades in order to maintain safe, reliable operations and to minimize the occurrence of unplanned outages. In addition to the maintenance and equipment upgrades performed by us during scheduled refueling outages, we have extensive operating and security procedures in place to ensure the safe operation of our nuclear units. We also have extensive safety systems in place to protect the plant, personnel, and surrounding area in the unlikely event of an accident or other incident.

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(a)Capacity factor is defined as the ratio of the actual output of a unit (or combination of units) over a period of time to its output if the unit had operated at net monthly mean capacity for that time period. See ITEM 7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS — Financial Results of Operations for additional information.

All of our nuclear units were originally licensed by the NRC for 40 years and have since received 20-year operating license renewals. Additionally, PSEG and STPNOC have received 20-year license renewals for the Salem and STP units, respectively. Peach Bottom and Dresden have received subsequent license renewal from the NRC for a second 20-year term, extending their operating period to a total 80-year term. We plan to pursue a subsequent license renewal for Crane in 2029. PSEG has also announced plans to pursue a subsequent license renewal for Salem in 2027. See Note 3 — Regulatory Matters of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on Peach Bottom's subsequent license renewal.

The following table summarizes the current license expiration dates for our nuclear facilities currently in service:

Station Unit
In-Service Date(a)

Current License Expiration

Braidwood 1 1988 2046

2 1988 2047

Byron 1 1985 2044

2 1987 2046

Calvert Cliffs 1 1975 2034

2 1977 2036

Clinton
1 1987 2047

Dresden
2 1970 2049

3 1971 2051

FitzPatrick 1 1975 2034

LaSalle 1 1984 2042

2 1984 2043

Limerick 1 1986 2044

2 1990 2049

NMP
1 1969 2029

2 1988 2046

Peach Bottom
2 1974 2053

3 1974 2054

Quad Cities 1 1973 2032

2 1973 2032

Ginna
1 1970 2029

Salem 1 1977 2036

2 1981 2040

STP 1 1988 2047

2 1989 2048

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(a)Denotes year in which nuclear unit began commercial operations.

Following recent improvements by the NRC, the operating license renewal process takes approximately three years from commencement, which includes approximately two years for us to develop the application and approximately 12 months for the NRC to review the application. Future rulemaking could further reduce the timelines for developing and reviewing the application. Depreciation provisions correspond with the expiration of the current NRC operating license denoted in the table above, except for Braidwood, Byron, LaSalle, NMP Unit 1, Quad Cities, Ginna, and Salem, which are based on the estimated useful lives of the stations including expectations for an additional 20-year term beyond current license expiration. See Note 3 — Regulatory Matters and Note 8 — Property, Plant, and Equipment of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. While the table above provides the date through which we are licensed to operate our nuclear plants, we may choose to retire certain plants earlier than the license expiration date if the economics do not support our continued operation of those plants.

Natural Gas and Oil Facilities

We operate approximately 7 GWs of natural gas and oil-fueled generation assets which provide a mix of baseload, intermediate, and peak power generation. We wholly own all our natural gas and oil facilities except for Wyman, which is operated by the principal owner, NextEra Energy Resources LLC, a subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. See ITEM 2. PROPERTIES for additional information regarding these generating facilities. Natural gas and oil generation plants are generally not licensed, and therefore, the decision on when to retire plants is, fundamentally, a commercial one.

In 2025, 2024, and 2023, electric supply (in GWhs) generated from our owned natural gas and oil generating facilities was 6%, 8%, and 9%, respectively, of our total electric supply. Our natural gas and oil fleet has similarly demonstrated a track record of strong performance with a Dispatch Match(a) of 97.9%, 97.4%, and 98.5% in 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively.

With our acquisition of Calpine in January 2026, the composition of our fleet changes materially with a higher concentration of natural gas facilities. Calpine owns 21 GWs of natural gas-fired generation, primarily consisting of combined cycle gas turbine plants in the Texas, California, and Northeast regions of the United States. Calpine's modern natural gas fleet is part of the backbone of the U.S. electrical grid, enabling the transition away from coal-fired generation and supporting the growth of intermittent renewable resources while maintaining reliability.

Renewable Facilities (including Hydroelectric)

Our renewable portfolio includes approximately 2.6 GWs of hydroelectric, wind, and solar generation assets, of which the electric supply (in GWhs) generated in 2025, 2024, and 2023 represented 2% of our total electric supply. Our Renewables Energy Capture(b) was 96.6%, 96.1%, and 96.4% in 2025, 2024, and 2023, respectively. We wholly own our renewable facilities except for certain wind project entities and CRP. See ITEM 2. PROPERTIES for additional information regarding these generating facilities and Note 21 — Variable Interest Entities of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding CRP, which is a VIE.

FERC has the exclusive authority to license most non-federal hydropower projects located on navigable waterways or federal lands, or connected to the interstate electrical grid, which include our Conowingo Hydroelectric Project (Conowingo) and Muddy Run Pumped Storage Facility Project (Muddy Run). Muddy Run's license expires on December 1, 2055 and is currently being depreciated over an estimated useful life that corresponds with the available license term. In March 2021, FERC issued a new 50-year license for Conowingo, which was subsequently vacated in December 2022. In September 2025, we reached a settlement agreement with MDE, Lower Susquehanna Riverkeeper Association, and Waterkeepers Chesapeake which allows us to move forward with resubmitting the license application with FERC. We cannot currently predict when FERC will issue the new license. Depreciation provisions continue to assume an estimated useful life through 2071 in anticipation of the license expiration date being restored. See Note 3 — Regulatory Matters of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information on the status of Conowingo's license. Wind and solar generation assets are generally not licensed, and therefore, the decision on when to retire plants is, fundamentally, a commercial one.

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(a)Dispatch Match is used to measure the responsiveness of a unit to the market, expressed as the total actual energy revenue net of fuel cost relative to the total desired energy revenue net of fuel cost. Factors having an adverse effect on Dispatch Match include forced outages, derates, and failure to operate to the desired generation signal.

(b)Renewable Energy Capture is an indicator of how efficiently the installed assets capture the natural energy available from the wind, the sun, and water. Renewable Energy Capture represents an energy-based fraction, the numerator of which is the energy produced by the sum of the wind turbines, solar panels, and run-of-river hydroelectric operations in the year, and the denominator of which is the total expected energy to be produced during the year, with adjustments made for certain events that are considered non-controllable, such as force majeure events, serial design-manufacturing equipment failures, and transmission curtailments. Renewable Energy Capture for the combined wind, solar, and run-of-river hydroelectric fleet is weighted by the relative site projected pre-tax variable revenue.

The acquisition of Calpine in January 2026 adds the Geysers Assets to our renewable portfolio, which is the largest geothermal power generation portfolio in the U.S., and the largest single renewable energy asset in California. The Geysers Assets consist of 13 operating geothermal plants located in Northern California, with an operating capacity of approximately 730 MWs. Calpine also contributes approximately 800 MWs of battery storage facilities to our portfolio, largely based in California.

Contracted Generation

In addition to energy produced by our owned generation assets, we source electricity from generators we do not own under long-term contracts. The following tables summarize our long-term contracts to purchase unit-specific physical power with an original term in excess of one year in duration, by segment, in effect as of December 31, 2025:

Segment

Number of Agreements

Expiration Dates
Capacity (MWs)

Mid-Atlantic
22 2027-2045 564

Midwest 8 2026-2044 855

ERCOT 8 2026-2040 1,140

Other Power Regions 18 2026-2045 2,239

Total 56 4,798

2026 2027 2028 2029 2030 2031 and thereafter Total

Capacity Expiring (MWs)
398 16 75 98 1,015 3,196 4,798

Customer-Facing Business

Based on data from EEI, we are the nation’s largest energy supplier for C&I and residential power volumes. Through our integrated business operations, we sell electricity, natural gas, and other energy-related products and sustainable solutions to various types of customers, including distribution utilities, municipalities, cooperatives, and commercial, industrial, public sector, and residential customers in markets across multiple geographic regions. We serve approximately 2 million total customer accounts, including three-fourths of Fortune 100 companies, and approximately 1.4 million residential customers.

We are a leader in electric power supply, serving approximately 204 TWhs in 2025 through sales to retail customers and wholesale load auctions to a geographically diverse customer base. The following table illustrates these volumes across our five reportable segments:

2025 Electric Power Supply (TWhs) Served (a)

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(a)Includes retail load and wholesale load auction volumes only. Electric generation in excess of our total retail and wholesale load would be sold in the respective RTO or ISO in which our facility is located. Other includes New England, South, and West.

We are active in all domestic wholesale power and gas markets that span the entire lower 48 states and have complementary retail activity across many of those states. We typically obtain power supply from the market to meet our wholesale and retail obligations. Our market risk is mitigated by our owned and contracted generation located in multiple geographic regions. The commodity risks associated with the output from owned and contracted generation are managed using various commodity transactions including sales to retail customers, trades on commodity exchanges, bilateral contracts, and sales to wholesale counterparties in accordance with our hedging program. See further discussion of the hedging program in the Price and Supply Risk Management section below. The main objective is to obtain low-cost energy supply to meet physical delivery obligations to both our wholesale and retail customers.

Retail Market

Retail competition in states across the U.S. range from full competition of energy suppliers for all retail customers (commercial, industrial, public sector, and residential) to partial retail competition available up to a capped amount for C&I customers only. We are a leader in retail energy supply, serving approximately 147 TWhs of electric power retail load primarily to C&I customers across multiple geographic regions in the U.S. We also served approximately 800 Bcf of gas in 2025.

Geographically Diverse Footprint in Retail Market

Strong customer relationships are a key part of our customer-facing business strategy, as demonstrated by our high renewal rates. Retail customer renewal rates have been strong over the last ten years across C&I power customer groups with average contract terms of approximately two years and customer duration of approximately six years, with many customers well beyond these metrics. Specifically, we enjoyed renewal rates of 77% for C&I power customers and 84% for C&I gas customers in 2025, owing to both our competitive pricing as well as our strong customer relationships. Our consistently high renewal rates are driven by our ability to provide customized solutions and deliver focused attention to our customers’ needs. We are also successful at acquiring new customers by offering innovative products and solutions that meet their needs. In addition to our high customer renewal rates, we have produced consistently high new win rates within C&I power as well, acquiring nearly one out of every three new customers who have chosen to shop with us over the past seven years.

High customer satisfaction levels, market expertise, stability, and scale-driven growth have resulted in a historically proven business with consistent margins. While providing customers with a competitive price is a key focus, we leverage our broad suite of electric and gas product structures, oftentimes customized, to provide customers with the commodity solution and information that best fits their needs. It is this attention to the customer that creates the durable and repeatable value highlighted in these statistics.

Consumer purchasing strategies have trended from direct supply relationships to third-party relationships with several customers looking to third-party consultants and brokers to find suppliers like us to reduce costs and evaluate the increasing number of options available for expanding energy solutions beyond the commodity. In response, we have expanded our third-party capabilities, created scale through a comprehensive support structure, and enhanced digital applications providing tools, tracking, and measurement, as well as the ability to extend the reach of our sustainability solutions to drive additional market share. While this trend of customers using third parties to find suppliers has slowed in recent years, we have remained the market leader in direct C&I sales with over 32% of the C&I market share of direct customer business, driven by our highly experienced and long-tenor direct sales team.

Wholesale Market

Our wholesale channel-to-market involves the sale of electricity among electric utilities and electricity marketers before it is eventually sold to end-use consumers. In 2025, we served approximately 57 TWhs of power load across competitive utility load procurement and bilateral sales to municipalities, co-ops, and other wholesale entities. Complementary to our national retail customer portfolio, we have several decades of relationships with wholesale counterparties across all domestic power markets as a means of both monetizing our own generation, as well as sourcing contracted generation to meet customer and portfolio needs. With increased customer demand for sustainability and reliability, our ability to source contracted generation has provided a capital-light way for us to provide customers with long-term solutions they are demanding to support a clean and resilient energy ecosystem. This creates durable customer relationships and repeatable business through the ability to respond to customer and marketplace trends. Similarly, this contracting acumen provides the ability to supplement our native generation with other non-renewable assets to meet changing portfolio needs in a financially efficient manner. In our wholesale gas business, we participate across all parts of the gas value chain, including trading, transport and storage, and physical supply.

Energy Solutions

As one of the largest customer-facing platforms in the U.S., we benefit from significant economies of scale, that allow us to provide our customers with competitively priced energy and to structure highly tailored solutions targeted to a customer’s unique power needs and clean energy goals. Our CORe+ product serves C&I customers' sustainability needs by matching contracted, third-party new-build renewable generation with customer desire to add additional carbon-free generation to the grid with a preference to be located within the same region as their load. In 2025, we continued to see growing demand for our Hourly Carbon-Free Energy (CFE) product and platform, as we have closed several additional Hourly CFE transactions with a strong pipeline of interested prospects. Achieving 100% carbon-free power is a key sustainability goal for many organizations. As customers make the transition to 100% hourly carbon-free power, many are looking to bridge the gap between their real-time electricity demand and available sources of carbon-free power. Our Hourly CFE platform and associated products match carbon-free generation every hour with a customer’s load, along with appropriate tracking and retirement of hourly attributes in the applicable registry. Many existing CORe+ customers are converting to 100% Hourly CFE with existing nuclear filling in the gaps of the hours renewable generation is not producing. Further, we are seeing interest from large C&I customers in long-term contracting for our nuclear facilities for energy, capacity, and carbon-free attributes. In addition to larger-scale CORe+ offerings, bundled and unbundled long-term nuclear agreements, and Hourly CFE, we offer a range of sustainability solutions to customers (e.g., RECs, EFECs, RINs, RNG, carbon offsets, Demand Response, etc.) as well as offers for carbon-free generation attributes to support their needs during the transition to a carbon-free energy ecosystem.

We also partner with our customers to provide energy efficiency options to meet their emissions-free energy goals. Our energy efficiency products provide the ability to optimize performance and maximize efficiency across customer facilities and operations through contract structures that include implementation of energy efficiency upgrades and behind-the-meter solutions with no upfront capital requirements. Additionally, these service offerings provide scalable solutions to meet sustainability goals through investment across the life of the facility or operations and allow for greater budget certainty. The ongoing ability to optimize energy consumption for customers allows us to support customer demands with the right combination of technology and efficiency program options.

In addition to sustainability solutions, data and analytics have also become increasingly important for our customers. Constellation Navigator delivers customized paths and sustainable solutions for customers to set and meet their environmental and energy management goals. Driven by advanced technology platforms and experienced advisors, it provides strategies to help organizations understand their baseline emissions and reduce their carbon footprints. Constellation Navigator helps businesses solve challenges across the energy lifecycle including utility bill management, carbon accounting, rebate administration, energy efficiency audits, and sustainability advisory services. These platforms and services provide new avenues for incremental growth by coupling the opportunities for customer usage optimization with accompanying products and sustainable solutions that we can provide to customers. These types of data and analytical services allow us to grow our customer base in previously inaccessible regulated markets by offering non-commodity energy-related products and sustainable solutions.

We continue to look for new and innovative products and solutions to bring to our customers. Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV) is our venture investing business, focused on championing innovation and scaling breakthrough technologies. CTV invests in a broad range of companies developing products and solutions that expedite the shift towards cleaner, resilient, and sustainable forms of energy. Our portfolio spans diverse areas, and consists of both established and emerging companies looking to advance the energy industry. CTV collaborates with Constellation's operating businesses and customers, harnessing portfolio companies' strengths to propel mutual growth and value for all stakeholders.

Price and Supply Risk Management

We leverage a combination of wholesale and retail customer load sales, federal and state programs, as well as non-derivative and derivative contracts, all with credit-approved counterparties, to hedge the commodity price risk of our generation portfolio.

Beginning in 2024, our existing nuclear fleet is eligible for a nuclear PTC, an important tool in managing commodity price risk for each nuclear unit not already receiving state support. The nuclear PTC provides increasing levels of support as unit revenues decline below levels established in the IRA and is further adjusted for inflation annually through the duration of the program based on the GDP price deflator for the preceding calendar year. See Note 3 — Regulatory Matters and Note 6 — Government Assistance of the Combined Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.

In locations and periods where our load serving activities do not naturally offset existing generation portfolio risk, remaining commodity price exposure is managed through portfolio hedging activities. Portfolio hedging activities are generally concentrated in the prompt three years, when customer demand and market liquidity enable effective price risk mitigation. During this prompt three-year period, we seek to mitigate price risk associated with our load serving contracts, non-nuclear generation, and any residual price risk for our nuclear generation that the nuclear PTC and state programs may not fully mitigate. We also enter transactions that further optimize the economic benefits of our overall portfolio.

A portion of our hedging strategy may be implemented using fuel products based on assumed correlations between power and fuel prices. Our risk management group monitors the financial risks of the wholesale and retail power marketing activities.

The cycle of production and utilization of nuclear fuel includes the mining and milling of uranium ore into uranium concentrates, the conversion of uranium concentrates to uranium hexafluoride, the enrichment of the uranium hexafluoride, and the fabrication of fuel assemblies. Nuclear fuel is obtained predominantly through long-term contracts for uranium concentrates, conversion services, enrichment services, (or a combination thereof) and fabrication services, including contracts sourced from Russia. We have inventory in various forms and engage a diverse set of domestic and international suppliers to secure the nuclear fuel needed to continue to operate our nuclear fleet. We manage various risks around our nuclear fuel requirements in accordance with our fuel procurement policy limiting our transactions with each supplier to mitigate concentration of risk. The size of our inventory holdings and forward contractual coverage considers our refueling needs across multiple years to protect against supply disruptions and near-term price volatility, while allowing for capital flexibility. Our fuel procurement activities comply with all U.S. and international trade laws and we continue to take advantage of all available avenues to ensure continuity in our nuclear fuel supply, including working with the U.S. government and our diverse set of suppliers to secure the nuclear fuel needed to continue to operate our nuclear fleet long-term.

Natural gas is procured through long-term and short-term contracts, as well as through spot-market purchases. We also enter into natural gas transportation and storage contracts that allow us to source reliable and cost-effective natural gas for our fleet and to take advantage of favorable market pricing, regardless of when the gas is used in our operations. Fuel oil inventories are managed so that, in the winter months, sufficient volumes of fuel are available in the event of extreme weather conditions and during the remaining months to take advantage of favorable market pricing.

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