Future Generation to Meet Our Customer Needs
Related to the topic of the environmental report is the question of Ameren’s next addition of baseload generation—the “workhorse” plants that operate virtually year-round, 24 hours a day, so that Ameren’s customers have the power they need, when they need it.
In February 2008, AmerenUE filed an integrated resource plan with the Missouri Public Service Commission. It was developed with significant stakeholder input from a broad spectrum of organizations. This plan details how the company expects to supply safe, reliable electricity in coming years, while protecting the environment.
In summary, the plan recommends aggressively pursuing energy efficiency programs, expanding the role of renewable energy, increasing operational efficiency at existing plants, and evaluating a range of options for new baseload generating facilities.
We will study a wide range of technologies to meet our customers’ energy needs in the future, including advanced coal technologies and nuclear power. As a result of the long time required to design, license and build a baseload power plant, this year we expect to file a construction and operating license application with the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a new nuclear unit at our Callaway site.
While this does not mean we have made a final decision to add a second unit at Callaway, it preserves that option for us.
Optimizing Our Power Generation Business
In our non-rate-regulated generation operations, we continued, in 2007, to invest in our plants to improve their productivity, as well as to effectively market the power they produce.
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