This is no way to collect biogas.
About 2 million tons of trash is generated in the St. Louis region each year. Half winds up in landfills. Those landfills could be our own miniature Saudi Arabias.
Buried deep within those landfills are piles of…
Photo by Candiche via Flickr.com
Sending the poor to pay utility bills at a payday lender is like sending the hungry for a meal in a shark tank.
It’s the worst kind of business synergy. Missouri utility regulators should halt the practice.
Payday…
Protesters reaction at a 2007 heating on a rate hike request by AmerenUE.
It isn’t easy being a utility regulator in Missouri. Hearings are filled with arcane technical jargon. Politics is hard to escape, especially for Public Service commissioners appointed by…
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon will soon, possibly as early as today, make one of his most important appointments since taking office in January: He will try, for the second time, to fill the fifth seat on the Missouri Public Service Commission.
The…
So far this rendering is all that Progress Energy's customers are getting for their money.
You may recall our long series of editorials opposed to AmerenUE’s efforts to change Missouri’s “CWIP” law (construction work in progress) before it moves ahead with a…
AmerenUE’s plan to build a second nuclear power plant in Callaway County may be in jeopardy. But if so, it won’t have been CWIP that killed it.
CWIP, of course, stands for construction work in progress. It refers to a state…
AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant.
AmerenUE is telling lawmakers and ratepayers that financing charges for a new nuclear plant would hike electric rates by 10.5 percent. Or maybe 10.8 percent. Certainly no more than 10.99 percent.
State regulators did the math for themselves. The…
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Missouri’s largest electric utility wants to change state law so that customers could be billed for finance charges while a new nuclear power plant is being built in Callaway County.
No big deal, AmerenUE officials say. The result would be “a…
Not that its products are unsafe, but the Acme Co. would find it easy to make friends in the Missouri Legislature.
Regarding the revelation that FBI agents have been poking around the Missouri Capitol, looking into alleged “pay-to-play” schemes involving state…
Missouri Senate Chamber
The walls are made of marble, topped by 16 Ionic columns. The ceiling soars 50 feet above the floor. Everything about the Missouri Senate chamber reeks of dignity and statesmanship — everything except the people who sit in it.
The…
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A Missouri Senate committee is to vote this afternoon on a revised — but still deeply flawed — utility bill that was written to benefit the state’s largest electric company.
AmerenUE has applied for a federal permit to build a new…
Brittanie Williams | Post-Dispatch
The intricacies of financing new nuclear power plants are painfully complex. Ditto for utility regulation. So in pushing plans to expand the Callaway nuclear power plant, utility giant AmerenUE has relied on a simple appeal: Trust us.
The company…
A state Senate committee is scheduled to begin hearings today on a deeply flawed bill that would remove key consumer protections for utility customers.
The measure, Senate Bill 228, would repeal a 1976 law that prohibits utilities from charging for the…
One of the biggest issues facing Missouri lawmakers, utility regulators and, especially, electric customers this year is a proposed new nuclear power plant in Callaway County.
Utility giant AmerenUE says that it hasn’t decided yet to build a second nuclear generating…
This editorial is just a place holder. We haven’t decided yet whether to write about one of the biggest issues facing Missouri legislators this year.
Our colleague Tony Messenger did. In a column published Tuesday, Mr. Messenger wrote that executives from utility…
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Missouri’s Public Service Commission is supposed to be an honest broker, fairly assessing the often conflicting interests of large utility companies and their customers.
That’s not how things have worked over the last few years. Instead, the playing field has tilted…
Utility giant AmerenUE wants to build a second nuclear power plant adjacent to its Callaway nuclear generating station near Fulton. But before it does, it wants some help from friendly members of the Missouri Legislature.
A 1976 state law, put on…
Missouri voters have an opportunity to nudge utilities down the path toward more sustainable energy. Proposition C on the November ballot would require large electric companies to get at least 15 percent of the power they sell through renewable sources…
Missouri electric customers deserve all the protection they can get. But one of the few protections they currently enjoy is under heavy fire from a utility giant and its friends on the Public Service Commission.
At issue is a law that…
