STATE OF MISSOURI
PUBLIC SERVICE COMMISSION
At a session of the Public Service Commission held at its office in Jefferson City on the 19th day of June, 2013.
In the Matter
of Ameren Missouri’s 2013 )
Integrated
Resource Plan Annual Update ) File No. EO-2013-0424
Report )
Issue
Date: June 19, 2013
The
Commission’s Electric Utility Resource Planning Rule requires each Missouri
electric utility to submit an annual update to its triennial compliance filing
in each year for which it is not required to submit a new triennial compliance
filing.[1] Union Electric Company, d/b/a Ameren Missouri
made a triennial compliance filing in 2011 and its next triennial compliance
filing is due in 2014.[2] As required by the regulation, Ameren
Missouri filed an Integrated Resource Plan Update and conducted an annual
update workshop. The company filed a required
summary report regarding that workshop on April 15, 2013.[3]
The
regulation allows stakeholders to file comments regarding the utility’s annual
update report and summary report within thirty days after the utility files the
summary report.[4] The Missouri Department of Natural Resources
(MDNR), the Sierra Club, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) each
filed comments regarding Ameren Missouri’s annual update report and workshop
summary report.
MDNR’s
comments, which were filed on May 15, praise Ameren Missouri for having done a
thorough job in updating its 2011 IRP, for making appropriate adjustments in
its forecasts to account for changes in natural gas prices and forecast load,
and for addressing the special contemporary issues previously established by
the Commission. Overall, MDNR commended Ameren
Missouri for “a very useful report and an informative and productive
stakeholder update session”.
Sierra Club and NRDC’s comments,
separately filed on May 15, express concern that Ameren Missouri’s annual
update does not contain sufficient analysis of changing conditions and fails to
address unresolved issues from the company’s 2011 IRP filing. Both Sierra Club and NRDC ask Ameren Missouri
to address their concerns in its 2014 IRP filing.
Ameren Missouri responded to the
comments on May 28. The company
acknowledges the issues identified by Sierra Club and NRDC and represents that
it will address all those issues in its 2014 triennial IRP filing.
Ameren Missouri has complied with the
requirements of the regulation and there is no need for further decision or
action by the Commission at this time.
Therefore, the Commission will close this file.
Morris L. Woodruff
Secretary
R. Kenney, Chm., Jarrett and W. Kenney,
CC., concur.
Stoll, C., absent.
Woodruff, Chief Regulatory Law Judge