Ameren Missouri introduced its 20-year plan for cleaner energy that could achieve a 30 percent reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2035.
The potential reduction in carbon dioxide emissions would put Ameren Missouri in compliance with the Environmental Protection Agency's Clean Power Plan, which calls for a 30 percent reduction by the year 2030. The EPA announced the Clean Power Plan earlier this year and Ameren Missouri has been prepared to achieve the standards.
"When the Greenhouse Gas Plan came out June 2nd from EPA," said Warren Wood, Vice President of External Affairs and Communications. "We started seeing that in fact, with just a few key changes we could comply with EPA's clean power plan."
Wood says that with the retirement of some coal-fired units and additional wind and solar projects, Ameren Missouri's plan was already shaping up to create a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2035.
Along with the carbon dioxide emissions, the company's plan announced the building of a second solar energy center in the state of Missouri. Construction will begin in 2016 on what will be the largest solar energy center in the state.
Wood says that Ameren Missouri's plan will be beneficial for customers and Missouri residents.
"The overall integrated resources plan as we look at it is structured to provide our customers with cleaner, dependable and reasonably priced power over the next 20 years," said Wood. "And minimize impacts on rates and provide us with increase diversity of fuel sources."
