Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001002910-25-000098
Chunk: 126

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-05-05
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
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 decommissioning trust fund at Ameren Missouri.

Ameren Missouri’s cash used in investing activities increased $165 million during the first three months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period, primarily as a result of a $192 million increase in capital expenditures, largely resulting from increased natural gas and renewable generation-related investments, as well as increased storm-related expenditures. Ameren Missouri’s cash used in investing activities also increased due to a $10 million increase in net investment activity in the nuclear decommissioning trust fund, and was partially offset by a $43 million decrease in net money pool advances.

Ameren Illinois’ cash used in investing activities decreased $9 million during the first three months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period, primarily as a result of a $10 million decrease in capital expenditures, largely resulting from decreased expenditures for electric distribution infrastructure upgrades, partially offset by increased storm-related expenditures.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

Cash provided by, or used in, financing activities is a result of our financing needs, which depend on the level of cash provided by operating activities, the level of cash used in investing activities, the level of dividends, and our long-term debt maturities, among other things.

Ameren’s cash provided by consolidated financing activities increased $207 million during the first three months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period. During the first three months of 2025, Ameren utilized net proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt of $1.1 billion for general corporate purposes, and to repay $300 million of long-term debt maturities and then-outstanding short-term debt. During the first three months of 2025, Ameren utilized proceeds from net commercial paper issuances of $108 million and cash provided by operating activities to fund, in part, capital expenditures. In comparison, during the first three months of 2024, Ameren utilized net proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt of $347 million for capital expenditures and to repay then-outstanding short-term debt. In addition, during the first three months of 2024, Ameren utilized proceeds from net commercial paper issuances of $332 million along with cash provided by operating activities to fund, in part, capital expenditures. During the first three months of 2025, Ameren paid common stock dividends of $191 million, compared with $178 million in the year-ago period, as a