Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001002910-25-000129
Chunk: 122

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 122
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 by increased retail electric sales volumes at Ameren Missouri, primarily due to warmer July temperatures and colder winter temperatures in 2025 and growth in retail electric sales and by the increased deferral of financing costs related to rate base investments at Ameren Missouri, and by increased infrastructure investments at Ameren Transmission and Ameren Illinois Electric Distribution. Net income was unfavorably affected for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2025, by increased financing costs, primarily resulting from higher interest rates on higher debt balances at Ameren (parent) and Ameren Missouri and by increased other operations and maintenance expenses not subject to formula rates, riders, or trackers, excluding a charge related to the NSR and Clean Air Act litigation, primarily due to higher storm costs, higher energy center maintenance expenses, and higher transmission and distribution vegetation management costs.

Ameren’s strategic plan includes investing in rate-regulated energy infrastructure, enhancing regulatory frameworks and advocating for responsible policies, and optimizing operating performance to capitalize on opportunities to benefit our customers, communities, shareholders, and the environment. Ameren remains focused on disciplined cost management and strategic capital allocation. Ameren invested $3.1 billion in its rate-regulated businesses in the nine months ended September 30, 2025.

In April 2025, Missouri Senate Bill 4 was enacted and became effective in August 2025. The law includes certain provisions that affect the regulation of Ameren Missouri’s electric and natural gas businesses. These provisions create modifications to the PISA and integrated resource planning, require electric utilities to submit service tariff schedules for high-demand customers, allow the MoPSC to authorize inclusion of construction work in progress in rate base for new natural gas-fired generation facilities and new generation facilities approved through integrated resource planning, and allow natural gas utilities to file regulatory rate reviews using a future test year, among other things.

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In April 2025, the MoPSC issued an order in Ameren Missouri’s 2024 electric service regulatory rate review, approving nonunanimous stipulations and agreements. The order authorizes an increase of $355 million to Ameren Missouri’s annual revenue requirement for electric retail service, effective June 1, 2025. The approved revenue requirement was based on infrastructure investments as of December 31, 2024. The order did not explicitly specify an ROE, capital structure, rate base, or any rate base disallowances. The order provides for the continued use of all existing riders and trackers. The order also changed annualized depreciation,