Ameren Investor Relations Material

Ameren is an American electrical and power company headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and listed on the NYSE. It is a holding company for several smaller power and energy businesses, and it primarily serves customers in its home state as well as parts of Illinois. Aside from supplying electricity and natural gas to customers, it also owns and oversees a large dam in Missouri.

The modern form of the company was formed by a series of mergers of smaller energy and utility companies in Missouri and Illinois. Even if the company was formed in 1997, the roots and history of its subsidiaries trace much further back than that. The two major constituent parts of Amaren (now going under different names), Union Electric and the Central Illinois Public Service Company were both formed in 1902. Both companies supplied their customers with hydrogenated electricity, as well as natural gas.

Amaren is the holding company for several different smaller subsidiaries, all working within energy and energy transmission. As previously mentioned, it supplies well over two million customers with both electricity and natural gas, including private households and businesses of various sizes. The company sources its electricity through a variety of different means, including generation from nuclear power plants and hydro-generators. The company is, unsurprisingly, one of the major suppliers of electricity and natural gas in Missouri and supplies over half of the St. Louis metropolitan area with energy.

Being publicly traded is nothing unique for electricity companies. Some other examples besides Amaren are Nextera, Engie, and Duke Energy.

The Missouri Subsidiary owns and operates the Bagnell Dam, located on the Osage river. The dam creates the Lake of the Ozarks, and the company is responsible for ensuring that the water levels of said lake are safe, consistent, and in line with the regulations in place. The dam was first built in 1931 and still generates hydroelectric power for Ameren.