Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001002910-25-000129
Chunk: 157

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-11-06
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 157
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91 million during the first nine months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period, primarily as a result of a $51 million increase in net money pool advances, and a $36 million increase in capital expenditures, largely resulting from increased expenditures for natural gas and electric distribution infrastructure upgrades as well as increased expenditures related to major storms.

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 financing activities decreased $390 million during the first nine months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period. During the first nine months of 2025, Ameren utilized net proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt of $2.0 billion for general corporate purposes and to repay $300 million of long-term debt maturities and then-outstanding short-term debt. During the first nine months of 2025, Ameren also repaid net short-term debt of $239 million. In comparison, during the first nine months of 2024, Ameren utilized net proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt of $1.6 billion for capital expenditures, to repay then-outstanding short-term debt, and to repay $49 million of maturities of long-term debt at ATXI. In addition, during the first nine months of 2024, Ameren utilized proceeds from net commercial paper issuances of $1.0 billion along with cash on hand and cash provided by operating activities to repay $800 million of long-term debt maturities at Ameren (parent) and Ameren Missouri, and to fund, in part, capital expenditures. During the first nine months of 2025, Ameren paid common stock dividends of $576 million, compared with $535 million in the year-ago period, as a result of an increase in both the dividend rate and the number of common shares outstanding.

Ameren Missouri’s cash provided by financing activities decreased $257 million during the first nine months of 2025, compared with the year-ago period. During the first nine months of 2025, Ameren Missouri utilized net proceeds from the issuance of long-term debt of $500 million to repay then-outstanding short-term debt. In addition, during