PR-10-121 -- MEDIA REMINDER: PSC To Hold Local Public Hearing In Arnold In AmerenUE Electric Rate Case

Contact: Kevin Kelly (573) 751-9300

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- JANUARY 14, 2010

JEFFERSON CITY---The Missouri Public Service Commission will hold a local public hearing in Arnold on January 21, 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 January 21, 2010 local public hearing will be held at the Fox C-6 School District, Roy Wilde Conference Center, 849 Jeffco Boulevard.  A question and answer session starts at 5:30 p.m.  The local public hearing will be held from 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. or until all those who wish to testify have done so, whichever is sooner. 

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