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Ameren seeking rate hike
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The state’s largest utility is asking for a rate increase to cover the costs of infrastructure upgrades, higher fuel prices and environmental improvements. Ameren Missouri Friday filed a request with the Missouri Public Service Commission for a 14.6 percent rate increase. That would raise about $376 million for the company and [...]
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Public Service Commission has ruled that Ameren Missouri should continue giving rebates to customers who install solar energy systems in their homes or businesses for at least another 120 days. The utility was seeking to end the practice after a Cole County judge declared the rebate program unconstitutional on [...]
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The Missouri Public Service Commission this week approved a roughly $172 million electric rate increase for Ameren Missouri, approximately $91 million less than what the company originally filed for last year. The commission voted unanimously to allow the rate increase which Ameren says reflects the increase in costs to provide service. However, in its decision, [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Some 66,000 Kansas City Power and Light customers will see their rates increase over the next three years. This week, the Missouri Public Service Commission, in a 4 to 1 vote, approved the phase-in of a 21 percent electric rate increase for L&P services territory customers of the KCP&L-Greater Missouri Operations [...]
Continue reading …JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Efforts to rewrite state law so power companies could transfer to consumers pre-construction permitting costs of a second nuclear power plant in Missouri already faced significant headwinds heading into the legislative session. Toss in disagreements over Missouri’s long-term energy policy, a nuclear disaster abroad and the end-of-session time crunch and odds [...]
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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At the onset of Sunshine Week, one of the state’s most secretive municipal bureaucracies on Monday received notice that Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster filed suit for blazon noncompliance of the state’s Sunshine, or open records, Laws. The City of Lebanon, along with City Administrator Henry Luxem, Mayor Constant P. “C.P.” [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri House committee gave its approval Thursday to legislation stripping controversial language out of Public Service Commission rules on the state’s renewable energy standards. The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Luann Ridgeway, R-Kansas City, takes language about where utilities can purchase renewable energy out of [...]
Continue reading …By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — House Speaker Steven Tilley, R-Perryville, on Tuesday appointed a Democratic state representative from Kansas City to head a special committee tasked with writing new language for the state’s renewable energy rules. The state’s largest public utilities, Public Service Commission members, renewable energy supporters and business [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – A controversial measure to increase renewable energy projects in and near Missouri was stripped from the final version of the state’s new renewable energy law. The Missouri Public Service Commission on Tuesday voted 3-2 to send the voter-mandated renewable energy standards to Secretary of State [...]
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By DICK ALDRICH Missouri News Horizon JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Nearly two years after Missourians voted to create a renewable energy standard, the details of making the rule a reality languish in a maze of governmental rulemaking procedure. Thursday, members of the Joint Committee on Administrative Rules (JCAR), a legislative committee that oversees state rulemaking, [...]
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