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04.17.2009 9:01 pm

AmerenUE’s fuzzy math

AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power station.

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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04.13.2009 9:00 pm

Even small increases can add up to a big hike in utility rates

AmerenUE's Callaway nuclear power plant near Fulton.

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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…

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03.30.2009 9:00 pm

Protect jobs and consumers, not utility profits

AmerenUE's Callaway Nuclear Power Plant

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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…

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