Wed, Oct 19, 2016
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Ameren Missouri filed a $1 billion infrastructure plan with the Missouri Public Service Commission on Monday, planning to replace aging infrastructure. Ameren plans to update the existing infrastructure system, citing the age of current components. In the filing, the company said its four baseload coal generation plants average about 50 years […]
Wed, Oct 19, 2016
An emerging movement in the solar industry is calling for rooftop installers to get a bigger voice in the sector’s largest trade group, and threatening trouble if they are denied. Small solar installers within the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) are demanding their policy priorities be considered on equal footing with those of larger, utility-scale […]
Wed, Oct 19, 2016
Community solar, already growing in popularity among Missouri’s rural electric cooperatives, now is coming to the state’s largest investor-owned utility. Another of the state’s large utilities has indicated it may follow suit. The Missouri Public Service Commission last week approved Ameren Missouri’s proposal to build one, and possibly two, 500-kilowatt solar arrays. Ameren’s residential and […]
Sun, Oct 9, 2016
Coal is no longer king. Power plants that burn coal generate less than 30 percent of our nation’s electricity, down from 50 percent just a decade ago. From Alabama to Ohio and Michigan and elsewhere, coal plants are closing by the dozens. What’s more, there isn’t a new generation of coal plants on the horizon. […]
Wed, Sep 28, 2016
The “Dust Bowl” started in the Midwest. For much of the 1930s, drought and dust beset our entire region from Texas to Nebraska. Temperatures soared, crops failed, and skies blackened with rolling storms of soot. This environmental crisis affected Americans from coast to coast. Few know that a Kansas City editor for the Associated Press […]
Tue, Sep 27, 2016
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. – Ameren Missouri filed a $1 billion infrastructure plan with the Missouri Public Service Commission on Monday, planning to replace aging infrastructure. Ameren plans to update the existing infrastructure system, citing the age of current components. In the filing, the company said its four baseload coal generation plants average about 50 years […]
