PR-10-112 -- MEDIA ADVISORY: Room Change for Local Public Hearing In Jefferson City

Contact: Kevin Kelly (573) 751-9300

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- JANUARY 7, 2010

JEFFERSON CITY---The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Jefferson City on January 12, 2010, to receive customer comment in an electric rate case filed by Union Electric Company d/b/a AmerenUE.  Customers who have had any service related problems may also bring those to the attention of the Commission during the local public hearing.  The Jefferson City local public hearing schedule appears below.  Please note the hearing was originally scheduled to be held in Room 310 of the Governor Office Building.  It will now be held in Room 450 of the Governor Office Building.

Governor Office Building

Room 450 (Ballroom)

200 Madison Street

5:30 p.m. PSC staff information session starts.

      6:00 p.m. Local public hearing begins.  The hearing will conclude

when every person who wishes to testify has done so.

This local public hearing will be held in a facility that meets the accessibility requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Any person who needs additional accommodations to participate in this hearing should call the Public Service Commission’s hotline at 1-800-392-4211 (voice) or Relay Missouri at 711 before the hearing.

Consumers unable to attend the local public hearing and wish to make written comments may contact the Office of the Public Counsel, P.O. Box 2230, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102-2230, telephone (866) 922-2959, e-mail opcservice@ded.mo.gov or the Missouri Public Service Commission, P.O. Box 360, Jefferson City, Missouri 65102, telephone 1-800-392-4211, e-mail pscinfo@psc.mo.gov .  Comments may also be registered in the case using the Commission’s electronic filing system at https://www.efis.psc.mo.gov/mpsc/Comments.html .

On July 24, 2009, AmerenUE filed an electric rate case with the Missouri Public Service Commission seeking to increase annual electric operating revenues by approximately $402 million.  For the average residential customer the proposed increase would be approximately 18 percent or $14 a month.  AmerenUE’s filing also includes a request to continue its fuel adjustment clause.  The filing also includes a request for an Environmental Cost Recovery Surcharge to collect the costs of mandated environmental upgrades on customers’ bills through another separately-identified surcharge outside a general rate case.

AmerenUE provides electric service to approximately 1.2 million customers in Missouri.

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Case No. ER-2010-0036