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Item 2. PROPERTIES
For information on our principal properties, see the energy center table below. See also Liquidity and Capital Resources and Regulatory Matters in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations under Part II, Item 7, of this report for a discussion of planned additions, replacements, or transfers. See also Note 5 – Long-term Debt and Equity Financings and Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies under Part II, Item 8, of this report.
The following table shows the anticipated capability of Ameren Missouri’s energy centers at the time of Ameren Missouri’s expected 2021 peak summer electrical demand for all energy centers owned as of December 31, 2020:
| Primary Fuel Source | Energy Center | Location | Net Kilowatt Capability**(a)** | ||||||||
| Coal | Labadie(b) | Franklin County, Missouri | 2,372,000 | ||||||||
| Rush Island(c) | Jefferson County, Missouri | 1,178,000 | |||||||||
| Sioux(c) | St. Charles County, Missouri | 972,000 | |||||||||
| Meramec(c) | St. Louis County, Missouri | 540,000 | |||||||||
| Total coal | 5,062,000 | ||||||||||
| Nuclear | Callaway(d) | Callaway County, Missouri | 1,194,000 | ||||||||
| Hydroelectric | Osage(d) | Lakeside, Missouri | 235,000 | ||||||||
| Keokuk | Keokuk, Iowa | 148,000 | |||||||||
| Total hydroelectric | 383,000 | ||||||||||
| Pumped-storage | Taum Sauk(d) | Reynolds County, Missouri | 440,000 | ||||||||
| Wind(e) | High Prairie | Adair and Schuyler Counties, Missouri | 400,000 | ||||||||
| Natural gas | Audrain(f) | Audrain County, Missouri | 616,000 | ||||||||
| Venice | Venice, Illinois | 495,000 | |||||||||
| Goose Creek | Piatt County, Illinois | 444,000 | |||||||||
| Pinckneyville | Pinckneyville, Illinois | 316,000 | |||||||||
| Raccoon Creek | Clay County, Illinois | 308,000 | |||||||||
| Meramec(c)(g) | St. Louis County, Missouri | 226,000 | |||||||||
| Kinmundy | Kinmundy, Illinois | 210,000 | |||||||||
| Peno Creek(f) | Bowling Green, Missouri | 192,000 | |||||||||
| Total natural gas | 2,807,000 | ||||||||||
| Oil (CTs) | Fairgrounds(c) | Jefferson City, Missouri | 55,000 | ||||||||
| Mexico(c) | Mexico, Missouri | 55,000 | |||||||||
| Moberly(c) | Moberly, Missouri | 55,000 | |||||||||
| Moreau(c) | Jefferson City, Missouri | 55,000 | |||||||||
| Total oil | 220,000 | ||||||||||
| Methane gas (CT) | Maryland Heights | Maryland Heights, Missouri | 8,000 | ||||||||
| Solar | O’Fallon | O’Fallon, Missouri | 4,500 | ||||||||
| Lambert | St. Louis County, Missouri | 1,000 | |||||||||
| BJC | St. Louis, Missouri | 1,500 | |||||||||
| Total solar | 7,000 | ||||||||||
| Total Ameren and Ameren Missouri | 10,521,000 |
(a)Net kilowatt capability, except for wind and solar generating facilities, is the generating capacity available for dispatch from the energy center into the electric transmission grid. Capability for wind and solar facilities represents nameplate capacity. This capacity is only attainable when wind/solar conditions are sufficiently available. The on-demand capability for wind and solar units is zero.
(b)The Labadie Energy Center is scheduled to retire 1,186,000 kilowatts by 2036 and 1,186,000 kilowatts by 2042.
(c)The Rush Island, Sioux, and Meramec energy centers are scheduled to retire by 2039, 2028, and 2022, respectively. The retirement dates of the Rush Island and Sioux energy centers are proposed to be advanced from their previous retirement dates of 2045 and 2033, respectively, as part of the 2020 IRP. The Fairgrounds, Mexico, Moberly, and Moreau energy centers are scheduled to be retired by 2026 as part of the 2020 IRP. Advancing the retirement date of an energy center is subject to the approval of a change in the assets’ depreciable lives by the MoPSC in a future regulatory rate review.
(d)The operating licenses for the Callaway, Osage, and Taum Sauk energy centers expire in 2044, 2047, and 2044, respectively.
(e)Ameren Missouri acquired the Atchison Renewable Energy Center in January 2021. As of the date of this filing, 120,000 kilowatts were in service. Ameren Missouri expects approximately 150,000 kilowatts of the up-to 300,000-kilowatt project to be in service by the end of the first quarter of 2021, and the remaining portion to be in service later in 2021.
(f)There are economic development arrangements applicable to these CTs, as discussed below.
(g)Its two operating units are steam-powered.
The following table presents in-service electric and natural gas utility-related properties for Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois as of December 31, 2020:
| Ameren Missouri | Ameren Illinois | ||||||||||
| Circuit miles of electric transmission lines(a) | 3,150 | 4,662 | |||||||||
| Circuit miles of electric distribution lines | 34,122 | 46,911 | |||||||||
| Percentage of circuit miles of electric distribution lines underground | 24 | % | 16 | % | |||||||
| Miles of natural gas transmission and distribution mains | 3,466 | 18,565 | |||||||||
| Underground natural gas storage fields | — | 12 | |||||||||
| Total working capacity of underground natural gas storage fields in billion cubic feet | — | 24 |
(a)ATXI owns 544 miles of transmission lines not reflected in this table.
Our other properties include office buildings, warehouses, garages, and repair shops.
With only a few exceptions, we have fee title to all principal energy centers and other units of property material to the operation of our businesses, and to the real property on which such facilities are located (subject to mortgage liens securing our outstanding first mortgage bonds and to certain permitted liens and judgment liens). The exceptions are as follows:
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Certain property is situated on lands occupied under leases, easements, franchises, licenses, or permits. That property includes a portion of Ameren Missouri’s Osage Energy Center reservoir; certain facilities at Ameren Missouri’s Sioux Energy Center; most of Ameren Missouri’s High Prairie Renewable, Atchison Renewable, Peno Creek CT and Audrain CT energy centers; Ameren Missouri’s Maryland Heights, Lambert, and BJC energy centers; certain substations; and most transmission and distribution lines and natural gas mains. The United States or the state of Missouri may own or may have paramount rights with respect to certain lands lying in the bed of the Osage River or located between the inner and outer harbor lines of the Mississippi River on which certain of Ameren Missouri’s energy centers and other properties are located.
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The United States, the state of Illinois, the state of Iowa, or the city of Keokuk, Iowa, may own or may have paramount rights with respect to certain lands lying in the bed of the Mississippi River on which a portion of Ameren Missouri’s Keokuk Energy Center is located.
Substantially all of the properties and plant of Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois are subject to the liens of the indentures securing their mortgage bonds.
Ameren Missouri has conveyed most of its Peno Creek CT Energy Center to the city of Bowling Green, Missouri through December 2022. Ameren Missouri has rights and obligations as the operator of the energy center under a long-term agreement with the city of Bowling Green. Under the terms of this agreement, Ameren Missouri is responsible for all operation and maintenance for the energy center. Ownership of the energy center will transfer to Ameren Missouri at the expiration of the agreement, at which time the property, plant, and equipment will become subject to the lien of the Ameren Missouri mortgage bond indenture.
Ameren Missouri operates a CT energy center located in Audrain County, Missouri. Ameren Missouri has rights and obligations as the operator of the energy center under a long-term agreement with Audrain County. Under the terms of this agreement, Ameren Missouri is responsible for all operation and maintenance for the energy center. The agreement will expire in December 2023. Ownership of the energy center will transfer to Ameren Missouri at the expiration of the agreement, at which time the property, plant, and equipment will become subject to the lien of the Ameren Missouri mortgage bond indenture.
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