Item 2. PROPERTIES

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Item 2. PROPERTIES

For information on our principal properties, see the energy center and in-service utility-related properties tables 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. See also Note 5 – Long-term Debt and Equity Financings and Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies under Part II, Item 8, of this report.

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The following table shows the anticipated capability of our energy centers at the time of the expected 2024 peak summer electrical demand for all energy centers owned as of December 31, 2023:

Primary Fuel SourceEnergy CenterLocationNet Kilowatt Capability**(a)**
Ameren Missouri:
CoalLabadie(b)Franklin County, Missouri2,372,000
Rush Island(c)Jefferson County, Missouri1,178,000
Sioux(d)St. Charles County, Missouri972,000
Total coal4,522,000
NuclearCallaway(e)Callaway County, Missouri1,194,000
HydroelectricOsage(e)Lakeside, Missouri235,000
KeokukKeokuk, Iowa148,000
Total hydroelectric383,000
Pumped-storageTaum Sauk(e)Reynolds County, Missouri440,000
WindHigh Prairie RenewableAdair and Schuyler Counties, Missouri400,000
Atchison RenewableAtchison County, Missouri298,800
Total wind698,800
Natural gas (CTs)AudrainAudrain County, Missouri608,000
Venice(f)Venice, Illinois487,000
Goose Creek(f)Piatt County, Illinois438,000
Pinckneyville(f)Pinckneyville, Illinois316,000
Raccoon Creek(f)Clay County, Illinois304,000
Kinmundy(f)Kinmundy, Illinois210,000
Peno CreekBowling Green, Missouri172,000
Total natural gas2,535,000
Oil (CTs)Fairgrounds(g)Jefferson City, Missouri55,000
Mexico(g)Mexico, Missouri54,000
Moberly(g)Moberly, Missouri54,000
Moreau(g)Jefferson City, Missouri54,000
Total oil217,000
Methane gas (CT)Maryland HeightsMaryland Heights, Missouri9,000
SolarMontgomery CountyMontgomery County, Missouri5,700
O’FallonO’Fallon, Missouri4,500
BJCSt. Louis, Missouri1,600
Cape GirardeauCape Girardeau, Missouri1,200
LambertSt. Louis County, Missouri900
Other Solar(h)Various1,400
Total solar15,300
Total Ameren Missouri10,014,100
Ameren Illinois:
SolarEast St. LouisEast St. Louis, Illinois2,500
Total Ameren10,016,600

(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 generating 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 Energy Center is scheduled to retire by October 15, 2024 per the remedy order of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri. For additional information, see NSR and Clean Air Act Litigation in Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies under Part II, Item 8, of this report.

(d)As noted in the 2023 IRP, Ameren Missouri plans to extend the retirement date of the Sioux Energy Center from 2030 to 2032, which is subject to the approval of a change in depreciable lives of the energy center’s assets by the MoPSC.

(e)The operating licenses for the Callaway, Osage, and Taum Sauk energy centers expire in 2044, 2047, and 2044, respectively.

(f)The Venice Energy Center is scheduled to retire by the end of 2029 and the Goose Creek, Pinckneyville, Raccoon Creek, and Kinmundy energy centers are scheduled to retire by the end of 2039 as noted in the 2023 IRP. See Illinois Emissions Standards in Note 14 – Commitments and Contingencies under Part II, Item 8, of this report.

(g)The Fairgrounds, Mexico, Moberly, and Moreau energy centers are scheduled to be retired by the end of 2029 as noted in the 2023 IRP.

(h)Includes five solar energy centers that each have a nameplate capacity of 500 kilowatts or less.

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The following table presents in-service electric and natural gas utility-related properties for Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois as of December 31, 2023:

Ameren MissouriAmeren Illinois
Circuit miles of electric transmission lines(a)3,1404,761
Circuit miles of electric distribution lines33,92745,984
Percentage of circuit miles of electric distribution lines underground24%16%
Miles of natural gas transmission and distribution mains3,53218,713
Underground natural gas storage fields—12
Total working capacity of underground natural gas storage fields in billion cubic feet—24

(a)ATXI owns 561 circuit miles of electric 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 as of December 31, 2023 are as follows:

  • 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 and Atchison Renewable energy centers; Ameren Missouri’s BJC, Cape Girardeau, Lambert, and Maryland Heights 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.

  • 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 respective mortgage bonds.

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