Exhibit 24
                                
                CONSTELLATION ENERGY CORPORATION
                                
                        POWER OF ATTORNEY
                        _________________
                                
      KNOW  ALL  MEN  BY  THESE PRESENTS,  that  the  undersigned
directors and officers of Constellation Energy Corporation hereby
constitute  and  appoint David A. Brune  their  true  and  lawful
attorney  and  agent to do any and all acts  and  things  and  to
execute,  in  their  name  any  and all  instruments  which  said
attorney and agent may deem necessary or advisable to enable said
corporation  to  comply  with  the Securities  Act  of  1933,  as
amended,  and  any  rules, regulations and  requirements  of  the
Securities   and  Exchange  Commission  in  respect  thereof   in
connection with the registration under said Act of not  exceeding
10,000,000  shares  of  Common  Stock  (without  par  value)   of
Constellation  Energy  Corporation  including  specifically,  but
without  limiting  the  generality of the  foregoing,  power  and
authority  to  sign  the names of the undersigned  directors  and
officers  in  the capacities indicated below, to any registration
statements   to  be  filed  with  the  Securities  and   Exchange
Commission  in  respect  to said Common Stock,  to  any  and  all
amendments  to  any  registration statement in  respect  to  said
Common Stock and to any instruments or documents filed as part of
or  in connection with said registration statements or amendments
thereto; and each of the undersigned hereby ratifies and confirms
all that said attorney and agent, shall do or cause to be done by
virtue hereof.

      IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has subscribed,
or  caused to be subscribed, these presents this 3rd day of April
1997.


     Signature

Principal Executive Officer       /s/ Charles W. Shivery
  and Director                 ___________________________
                                    Charles W. Shivery
                              Chairman of the Board, Chief
                              Executive Officer and Director


Director                           /s/ Dennis R. Wraase
                               ___________________________
                                     Dennis R. Wraase