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DATE
Nov. 9, 2026
CALL PARTICIPANTS
- Vice President, Investor Relations – Tim Flottemesch
- Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer – Joseph Dominguez
- Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer – Shane Smith
TAKEAWAYS
- Operating Revenues — $9.6 billion, increasing from $6.6 billion in the third quarter of 2025.
- GAAP Net Income — $5.19 per share, up from $2.97 per share in the prior year.
- Non-GAAP Operating Earnings — $5.06 per share, driven by favorable market conditions and accretion from the Calpine acquisition.
- Adjusted Operating Earnings Guidance — $12.50 to $12.80 per share, representing an increase and narrowing from the previous range.
- Summer Nuclear Capacity Factor — 99.2%, achieved during peak load records in the PJM market across June, July, and August.
- Quarterly Nuclear Capacity Factor — 97.2%, reflecting 20 planned refueling outage days during the quarter.
- RISEC Acquisition Cost — $715 million, for the purchase of a 609-megawatt natural gas-fired combined-cycle facility in Rhode Island.
- Amazon PPA Capacity — 690 megawatts, under a 20-year agreement supporting more than $3 billion in infrastructure investment at Calvert Cliffs.
- Google Capacity Uprate Deal — 890 megawatts, enabling more than $4.3 billion in investments across 11 nuclear units in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
- Google Financial Energy Agreement — 2,700 megawatts, representing a 15-year financial energy load following agreement in the PJM grid.
- Peak+ Agreement Capacity — 270 megawatts, signed as a 20-year agreement with an unnamed investment-grade customer in the data economy market.
- Year-to-Date Contracted Capacity — 8,500 megawatts, with agreements extending well into the 2040s at premium pricing.
- Nuclear Uprate Capacity Expansion — 1,200 megawatts, with most capacity scheduled to come online between 2029 to 2032.
- Total Nuclear Uprate Cost — $4.3 billion, which management stated is within the capital cost range of new combined-cycle gas plant estimates.
- Incremental Growth Capital — $3 billion, planned for deployment from 2028 to 2032 to support nuclear uprates.
- DOE Loan Commitment — $5 billion, through a conditional 30-year term with interest rates at a spread of 37.5 basis points above U.S. Treasuries.
- DOE Project Support Ceiling — $6 billion, covering the Crane restart and other fleet-wide projects aimed at adding more than 2,000 megawatts of capacity.
- Byron Unit 2 Completion Timeline — Oct. 2026, marking the finish of a low-pressure turbine upgrade more than one week faster than the prior world record time.
- Cumulative Share Repurchases — $3 billion, completed in the approximately seven months since the company’s March business update.
- Total Shares Repurchased — 11 million shares, representing activity conducted through the first nine months of the year.
- Quarterly Share Repurchases — $800 million, executed during the third quarter under the board-authorized $5 billion program.
- Natural Gas, Oil, and Hydro EFOF — 5.9%, representing the equivalent forced outage factor for the expanded thermal and hydro fleet.
- Renewable Energy Capture — 96.4%, comparing to 96.8% in the third quarter of 2025.
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RISKS
- Dominguez stated, “the reality is that utilities and grid operators did not do a good job estimating the real number of data centers, and that resulted in a massive overestimation that caused legitimate fears by all policymakers,” noting that this has led to a market overreaction regarding future development.
- Dominguez warned that “regulatory uncertainty is always a bit of an overhang,” specifically regarding pending rules for colocation in PJM and at the federal level.
SUMMARY
Constellation Energy Corporation (CEG +10.46%) reported GAAP net income of $5.19 per share and non-GAAP operating earnings of $5.06 per share for the third quarter of 2026. Management reported that the company has secured more than 8,500 megawatts in long-term agreements year-to-date, with nearly 45% of its clean baseload fleet now supported by contracts extending beyond the federal production tax credit price floor into the 2040s. The company stated that performance was driven by the addition of the Calpine portfolio and higher capacity prices in PJM. Management indicated that capital allocation remains focused on aggressive share repurchases and organic growth through nuclear uprates while maintaining a clear deleveraging plan.
- Management reported that the Peak+ product combines existing nuclear generation with new capacity solutions such as storage or demand response to meet evolving regulatory requirements.
- CFO Smith noted that the $5 billion conditional loan commitment from the Department of Energy could generate approximately $40 million in annual pretax interest savings if fully utilized.
- The company reported that nuclear uprates will add 1,200 megawatts of capacity by 2032 at a total cost of $4.3 billion, which management stated is a fraction of the cost of new nuclear construction.
- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission issued a favorable environmental assessment for the Crane restart: a project management expects to complete in the second half of 2027.
- CEO Dominguez stated, “We have moved from strategy to execution and now have more than 90 million megawatt-hours supported by long-term agreements with high-quality customers extending into the 2040s.”
- Management stated that the company continues to explore additional uprate opportunities at its plants through ongoing design and engineering work following the successful upgrade at Byron.
INDUSTRY GLOSSARY
- CCGT: Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine, a type of natural gas-fired power plant that uses both a gas and a steam turbine to produce electricity.
- Crane: The Crane Clean Energy Center, the name for the nuclear power plant formerly known as Three Mile Island Unit 1.
- EFOF: Equivalent Forced Outage Factor, a metric measuring the percentage of time a power plant is unavailable due to forced outages or deratings.
- ERCOT: The Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the electrical grid for most of the state of Texas.
- NIHub: Northern Illinois Hub, a specific delivery point and price benchmark for electricity trading in the PJM market.
- Peak+: A Constellation-developed product that integrates baseload clean energy with peak capacity resources like storage or demand response.
- PJM: A regional transmission organization that coordinates wholesale electricity movement in all or parts of 13 states and the District of Columbia.
- PPA: Power Purchase Agreement, a long-term contract between an electricity generator and a customer to sell energy at a fixed price.
- PTC: Production Tax Credit, a federal incentive providing
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