Today, the Missouri Public Service Commission (PSC), which regulates monopoly utilities like Ameren Missouri, unanimously approved the utility’s proposal to build and own a 150 megawatt solar farm in White County, Illinois. That is enough clean energy to power about 16,000 homes. Sierra Club intervened before the PSC in support of the Boomtown Solar Project.
Ameren Missouri operates within a regional grid called the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO). The MISO grid covers fifteen states and the Canadian province of Manitoba. In 2021, solar only accounted for less than one percent of the total energy generated within MISO’s territory. Ameren Missouri has committed to 800 megawatts of new solar by 2025, 2,000 megawatts of new wind by 2030, but no new battery storage until 2033 in its latest long-range energy plan.
Great Rivers Environmental Law Center represented Sierra Club before the PSC.
Source: sierraclub.org
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Categories: Missouri, Energy