Company: AILIM
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001002910-25-000112
Chunk: 169

Company: Ameren Illinois Co
Filing Date: 2025-08-04
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 169
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afluoride. Achieving these goals will be dependent on a variety of factors, including cost-effective advancements in innovative energy technologies and constructive federal and state energy and economic policies. The 2025 Change to the 2023 PRP includes, among other things, the following:

•estimated total load growth of 1.5 gigawatts by 2032 and 2.5 gigawatts by 2040;

•adding 1,600 MWs of natural gas-fired simple-cycle generation by 2030, which includes the 800-MW Castle Bluff Natural Gas and the 800-MW Big Hollow Natural Gas projects discussed in Note 2 – Rate and Regulatory Matters under Part I, Item 1, of this report, and an additional 1,200 MWs by 2043;

•adding 2,100 MWs of natural gas-fired combined-cycle generation by 2035 and an additional 1,200 MWs by 2040;

•adding 3,200 MWs of renewable generation by 2030, which includes the 400 MWs of solar generation projects discussed in Note 2 – Rate and Regulatory Matters under Part I, Item 1, of this report, and an additional 1,500 MWs by 2035;

•adding 1,000 MWs of battery storage by 2030, which includes the 400-MW Big Hollow Battery Energy Storage Project discussed in Note 2 – Rate and Regulatory Matters under Part I, Item 1, of this report, and an additional 800 MWs by 2042;

•adding 1,500 MWs of nuclear generation by 2040;

•retiring all of Ameren Missouri’s coal-fired energy centers by 2042;

•retiring 1,800 MWs of Ameren Missouri’s natural gas-fired energy centers by 2040 to comply with Illinois law;

•the continued implementation of customer energy-efficiency and demand response programs; and

•the expectation that Ameren Missouri will seek and receive NRC approval for an extension of the operating license for the Callaway Energy Center beyond its current 2044 expiration date.

Ameren Missouri’s plan could be affected by, among other factors: Ameren Missouri’s ability to obtain CCNs from the MoPSC, and any other required state or federal approvals for the addition of renewable resources, battery storage, or nuclear or natural gas-fired generation, retirement of energy centers,