The Missouri PSC unanimously approved a settlement agreement on rates for Ameren’s large load customers that insulates ratepayers from most costs associated with supplying data centers’ electricity needs.

U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) requested that Ameren explain whether residential ratepayers are picking up the tab for grid upgrades necessary to accommodate data centers and other large industrial customers.

Invenergy is standing by the value of its $11 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express transmission project with a letter to Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who is said to have pledged to block the line.

The D.C. Circuit denied a review of a FERC decision that allowed SPP to incorporate transmission facilities into one of its pricing zones, spreading the costs to the zone’s customer base.

Missouri's attorney general says he has opened an investigation into Invenergy’s Grain Belt Express transmission project, an 800-mile, HVDC line that has been under development since 2010.

MISO’s proposal to use a temporary “fast lane” in its interconnection queue to speed up necessary resource additions would give utility-owned generation preferential treatment, according to protesters’ comments filed with FERC.

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee advanced all three of President Joe Biden’s nominees to FERC with broad margins in a business meeting.

Ameren executives have reassured shareholders that Missouri’s capacity shortfall beginning this summer is no cause for panic.

Ameren Missouri appears to be making good on plans to close its Rush Island coal plant, which has racked up multiple Clean Air Act violations.

Invenergy Transmission’s $7 billion, 800-mile Grain Belt Express HVDC line has secured the last of its state approvals with Missouri agreeing to the line’s expanded design.