Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001002910-25-000055
Chunk: 156

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 156
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•the availability of a skilled work force, including transferring the specialized knowledge of those who are nearing retirement to employees succeeding them;

•maintaining affordability of electric and natural gas utility services for customers, including the demand for access to renewable energy generation at rates acceptable to customers;

•the modernization of the electric grid to accommodate a two-way flow of electricity and increased capacity for distributed generation interconnection;

•net metering rules and other changes in existing regulatory frameworks and recovery mechanisms to address the allocation of costs to customers who own generation resources that enable them both to sell power to us and to purchase power from us through the use of our transmission and distribution assets;

•legislation or programs to encourage or mandate energy efficiency, energy conservation, and renewable sources of power, and the lack of consensus as to how those programs should be paid for;

•higher levels of infrastructure and technology investments and adjustments to customer rates associated with the refund of excess deferred income taxes that have resulted in, and are expected to continue to result in, negative or decreased free cash flow, which is defined as cash flows from operating activities less cash flows from investing activities and dividends paid;

•public concerns about the siting of new facilities, and challenges that members of the public can assert against applications for governmental permits and other approvals required to site and build new facilities that can result in significant cost increases, delays and denial of the permits and approvals by the regulators;

•public concerns about the potential environmental impacts from the combustion of fossil fuels; 

•pressure from public interest groups regarding limiting the use of natural gas, as well as proposed restrictions on the use of natural gas by state and local authorities;

•certain investors’ concerns about investing in, as well as certain insurers’ concerns about providing coverage to, utility companies that have coal-fired generation assets;

•scrutiny by investors and other stakeholders of industry practices;

•public concerns about nuclear decommissioning and the disposal of nuclear waste;

•industry challenges resulting from alleged or actual legal, regulatory or compliance failures, including in connection with lobbying and political activities or liabilities arising out of wildfires or other catastrophic events; and

•effects of mergers, acquisitions, and divestitures within the utility industry.

We are monitoring all these issues. Except as otherwise noted in this report, we are unable to predict what impact, if any, these issues will have on our results of operations, financial position, or liquidity. For additional information, see Risk Factors under Part I, Item 1A, Outlook in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial