Legislators throw paper copies of bills into the air at the close of the 2006 session.
Chiseled in stone on the state capitol in Jefferson City is a Latin phrase that translates as “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme…
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…
AmerenUE
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…
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…
AmerenUE
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…
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…
