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Credit Facilities and Short-Term Borrowings (Tables)
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2011
Credit Facilities and Short-Term Borrowings  
Schedule of bank lines of credit under committed credit facilities

  Constellation Energy had bank lines of credit under committed credit facilities totaling $4.2 billion at December 31, 2011 for short-term financial needs as follows:

Type of Credit
Facility

  Amount
(In billions)

  Expiration Date
  Capacity Type
 

Syndicated Revolver(1)

  $ 2.50   October 2013   Letters of credit and cash

Commodity-linked

    0.50   August 2014   Letter of credit and cash

Bilateral

    0.55   September 2014   Letters of credit

Bilateral

    0.25   December 2014   Letters of credit and cash

Bilateral

    0.25   June 2014   Letters of credit and cash

Bilateral

    0.15   September 2013   Letters of credit
             

Total

  $ 4.20        
             
(1)
Upon closing of the merger with Exelon, the amount available under this facility will be $1.5 billion.
Schedule of net available liquidity
At December 31, 2011
  Constellation
Energy
(excluding BGE)

  BGE
 
   
 
  (In billions)
 

Credit facilities (1)

  $ 3.7   $ 0.6  

Less: Letters of credit issued (1)

    (1.0 )    

Less: Cash drawn on credit facilities

         
   

Undrawn facilities

    2.7     0.6  

Less: Commercial paper outstanding

         
   

Net available facilities

    2.7     0.6  

Add: Cash and cash equivalents (2)

    0.9      
   

Net available liquidity

  $ 3.6   $ 0.6  
   
(1)
Excludes $0.5 billion commodity-linked credit facility due to its contingent nature and $0.5 billion in letters of credit posted against it.

(2)
BGE's cash balance at December 31, 2011 was $48.6 million.