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All right. Hello everyone and welcome to Ed Barron's. I'm Andy Serwer and welcome to our guest,

Joe Dominguez, CEO of Constellation Energy, Joe. Great to see you. Thanks so much for joining us.

Great to be here. Thank you.

So you guys just closed the Calpine acquisition, which is a big deal for you that's making you

the largest producer of electricity in the world,

the largest private producer of electricity, the largest in the United States.

Tell us where that deal stands.

How are you moving forward with that?

And what's the rationalization for doing that transaction?

Yeah, well, as you indicated, we just closed.

So in the last couple of weeks, so we're finally able to start pulling the people

together. We did a lot of good integration work in advance of this, obviously. But now starting

to see the capabilities I really wanted to get when I did the deal. You know, Andy, when we started,

we were already the third largest power producer in the U.S., but predominantly a nuclear fleet, something

like 90 percent of the megawatts we produced were with nuclear.

And as we looked at the changing landscape, in particular the data economy, but also

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