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Thursday, December 27, 2012

Ballwin, Ellisville Utility Bills Set to Go Up $10 Next Month

The Missouri Public Service Commission has approved a rate increase request by Ameren UE that will add $10 to the average bill. Laclede Gas is also asking the commission to let it raise rates on its customers.

Running all those electric devices in your home is set to become more expensive when the New Year rolls around.  The Missouri Public Service Commission has given its approval to a rate increase request by Ameren Missouri that will add about $10 a month to the average electric bill, starting Jan. 2.  The $260 million rate increase for the utility's approximately 1.2 million Missouri customers was approved by the Missouri Public Service Commission Dec. 12, according to the St. Louis Business Journal. The actual rise in your monthly bill will be dependent upon your usage. The rate approved by the commission is actually less than the $376 million Ameren requested last February. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the company said the …

Sunday, July 29, 2012

Can You Support Ameren's 14.6 Percent Rate Hike?

Missourians want reliable service. Do you believe the requested rate increase will get us what we want?

Public hearings were held last week, with more to come, by the Missouri Public Service Commission on the question of a 14.6 percent rate increase that Ameren Missouri has requested. Patch reported a statement by Ameren Missouri's CEO, Warner Baxter, noting that "our customers have consistently told us that reliability is their highest priority and that they also want cleaner air." He said investments in the company's infrastructure have yielded those results. But the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported from a hearing on Thursday that residents aren't so sure they can swallow another increase by the region's dominent electric utility. The Post-Dispatch reported: "If there was a common thread among the dozens of speakers, it was this: Budgets …

PaulRevere

12:05 pm on Tuesday, August 28, 2012

At least AMEREN is up-front with their cost. Ameren is a utility-- So is MSD Your Sewer bills will be doubled to about $800 yr. (remember it was $240 yr) Where is the outcry? MSD employees get enormous pays. Yet they are invisible. so they went out and made loans to pay their bills so you would not see it NOW. But , in 15-20 years that loan must be paid off. Congratulations People--Every one of …   more ›

Thursday, July 26, 2012

Ameren Rate Increase Public Hearings Start Today, Do You Support the Increase?

The Missouri Public Service Commission is hosting a dozen meetings in St. Louis and beyond to ask residents for input on an average 14 percent rate increase.

Ameren Missouri wants to raise their rates by 14.6 percent, but first they must hear the public’s opinion. The increase, according to an Ameren pamphlet regarding the increase, would increase the company’s revenues by approximately $376 million. Ameren cites higher fuel costs and infrastructure improvements as some of the reasons for the rate increase, according to an Ameren press release. “Our customers have consistently told us that reliability is their highest priority and that they also want cleaner air,” said Ameren Missouri Chairman, President and CEO Warner Baxter, in a press release. “Over the last several years, we have made significant investments in our infrastructure that are producing results. Over the last five years, …

Phil Gonzalez

1:38 pm on Friday, August 3, 2012

America has become a land of a million or more "East India Trading Corporations". Thank you for the Boston Tea Party. Too bad Americans don't understand that the US Constitution is a compromise between Freedom & Slavery & that freedom requires a majority of educated citizens to defend Freedom against Slavery.   more ›

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