Ameren Missouri files plan with Missouri Public Service Commission to help spur economic growth in the state
Powering Missouri Growth Plan aims to reliably serve large businesses while maintaining just and reasonable rates for all customers
Goals of the plan include:
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Job creation: The plan aims to create meaningful job growth by making
Missouri even more attractive for new and existing businesses to relocate or expand. - Community betterment: The plan is an economic catalyst, bringing new revenue sources for essential community services such as schools and fire protection.
- Consumer protection: The plan protects existing customers and is designed so that expanding companies pay their fair share of costs.
"Ameren Missouri's Powering Growth Plan is designed to attract new jobs and investment, help current customers expand and further position our communities as a great place to live and do business," said
The filing includes several consumer protection components designed to protect all stakeholders in accordance with
If approved by the PSC, the plan would offer a competitive, yet structured approach designed so that new large customers pay their fair share of the costs of providing electric service to them, while maintaining just and reasonable rates for all customers, and provides options to accomplish their various clean energy goals.
"Companies who use a lot of energy evaluate many factors when they are looking to locate their business in a community," said
Ameren Missouri is well positioned to accommodate these and other economic development projects now and into the future. The company recently announced a significant change to its generation strategy, accelerating generation investments to support robust economic expansion, bolster reliability, and create jobs across the state.
"Abundant, reliable energy powers meaningful economic growth in
The revision to Ameren Missouri's Preferred Resource Plan in its Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) is designed to serve up to 2.0 gigawatts (GW) of expected new energy demand by 2032, with a balanced mix of generation resources to deliver reliable, affordable and cleaner energy for all customers.
About Ameren Missouri
Ameren Missouri has been providing electric and gas service for more than 100 years, and the company's electric rates are among the lowest in the nation. Ameren Missouri's mission is to power the quality of life for its approximately 1.3 million electric and 135,000 natural gas customers in central and eastern
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