Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001002910-25-000055
Chunk: 155

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 155
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 generating units;

•corporate tax law changes, including the IRA, as well as additional interpretations, regulations, amendments, or technical corrections that affect the amount and timing of income tax payments or the transferability of production and investment tax credits, reduce or limit the ability to claim certain deductions and use carryforward tax benefits and/or credits, or result in rate base reductions;

•cybersecurity risks, cyber attacks, including ransomware and other ransom-based attacks and those attacks arising from or generated by artificial intelligence, hacking, social engineering, and other forms of malicious cybersecurity and/or privacy events, which could result in the loss of operational control of energy centers and electric and natural gas transmission and distribution systems and/or the theft or inappropriate release of certain types of information, including sensitive customer, employee, financial, and operating system information;

•acts of sabotage, which have increased in frequency and severity within the utility industry, terrorism, and other intentionally disruptive acts;

•political, regulatory, and customer resistance to higher rates;

•the impacts from new data centers expected to be constructed over the next several years, including increased competition among utilities, independent power producers and non-traditional market entrants, providing generation and resource adequacy to support the projected load growth, and managing the impact on customer rates;

•the impact and effectiveness of vegetation management programs;

•the potential for reliability issues due to inadequate resources resulting from the retirement of fossil-fuel-fired generation facilities as they are replaced with renewable energy generation sources, increasing load growth, and market inefficiencies related to prices for purchased power, capacity, and ancillary services, and other factors;

•the need to place new transmission and generation facilities in service, which is dependent upon timely regulatory approvals and the availability of necessary labor and materials, among other things, to maintain grid reliability;

•pressure and uncertainty on customer growth and sales volumes in light of increased competition in the industry and economic conditions;

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•the ability to recover and earn a fair return on investments due to changes in the allowed ROE, including ROE incentive adders on FERC-regulated electric transmission assets;

•the influence of macroeconomic factors on yields of United States Treasury securities and on the allowed ROE provided by regulators; 

•regulatory lag;

•the availability of fuel, materials and supplies, and equipment, and the potential disruptions in supply chains and inflationary pressures or tariffs on the prices and availability of commodities, labor, services, materials and supplies, elevated interest rates, and impacts associated with extended recovery periods from customers