Exelon Pa. Peach Bottom 3 reactor cut to 65 pct power

NEW YORK, July 1 (Reuters) - Exelon Corp's (EXC.N) 1,112-megawatt Unit 3 at the Peach Bottom nuclear power station in Pennsylvania dipped to 65 percent power by early Wednesday from full power early Tuesday, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said in a report.

The 2,224 MW Peach Bottom station, which entered service in 1974, is located in Peach Bottom in York County, about 75 miles southwest of Philadelphia. It has two 1,112 MW units, 2 and 3.

Unit 2 continued to operate at full power.

One MW powers about 800 homes in Pennsylvania.

In 2003, the NRC renewed the plant's original 40-year operating licenses for another 20 years until 2033 and 2034.

Exelon Nuclear, a unit of Exelon's Exelon Generation Co LLC subsidiary, operates the station for its owners: Exelon (50 percent) and Public Service Enterprise Group Inc (PEG.N) (50 percent).

Exelon, of Chicago, owns and operates more than 38,000 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes electricity to about 5.4 million customers in northern Illinois and southeast Pennsylvania and natural gas to about 480,000 the Philadelphia area.

PSEG, of Newark, New Jersey, owns and operates more than 16,500 MW of generating capacity, markets energy commodities, and transmits and distributes electricity to 2.1 million customers and natural gas to 1.7 million customers in New Jersey and another 2.9 million customers around the world. (Reporting by Scott DiSavino; Editing by John Picinich)