Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001002910-25-000055
Chunk: 235

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 7
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 to provide a better understanding of how those segments and their results affect the financial condition and results of operations of Ameren as a whole. Discussion regarding our financial condition and results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022, including comparisons with the year ended December 31, 2023, is included in Item 7 of our Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.

In addition to presenting results of operations and earnings amounts in total, we present certain information in cents per share. These amounts reflect factors that directly affect Ameren’s earnings. We believe this per share information helps readers to understand the impact of these factors on Ameren’s earnings per diluted share.

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OVERVIEW

Our core strategy is driven by the following three pillars, which allow us to capitalize on opportunities to benefit our customers, communities, shareholders, and the environment:

Investing in rate-regulated energy infrastructureEnhancing regulatory frameworks and advocating for responsible policiesOptimizing operating performanceTo capitalize on opportunities to benefit our customers, communities,  shareholders, and the environmentWe invest in rate-regulated energy infrastructure and seek to earn competitive returns on our investments. We seek to make prudent investments that benefit our customers. The goal of these investments is to maintain and enhance the reliability of our services, develop and deliver cleaner sources of energy, create economic development opportunities in our region, and provide customers with more options and greater control over their energy usage, among other things. By prudently investing in our businesses, we believe that we deliver superior value to both customers and shareholders.We seek to partner with our stakeholders, including our customers, communities, regulators, federal and state legislators, and RTOs, to enhance our regulatory frameworks and advocate for responsible energy and economic policies for the benefit of our customers, communities, and shareholders. We believe enhancing our regulatory frameworks is important to drive investment in our business segments, earn competitive returns on those investments, and realize timely recovery of our costs with the benefits accruing to both customers and shareholders.Utilizing a continuous improvement mindset, we seek to optimize operating performance for the benefit of our customers. We remain focused on disciplined cost management and strategic capital allocation. We align our overall spending, both operating and capital, with economic conditions and with the frameworks established by our regulators. We focus on minimizing the gap between allowed and earned ROEs and allocating capital resources to business opportunities that we expect will provide the most benefit to our customers and offer the most attractive risk-adjusted return potential. Rate