Ameren Missouri to continue promoting demand-side programs under extended agreement
With approval from the Missouri Public Service Commission, Ameren Missouri will continue to promote demand-side programs — such as energy efficiency and demand response — for residential and business customers through 2022.
This represents an extension of Ameren Missouri’s Cycle 3, under the Missouri Energy Efficiency Investment Act (MEEIA), signed into law in 2009. The law encourages investor-owned electric utilities to develop and utilize such programs.
For Ameren Missouri, which serves some 1.28 million people, the extension will also include the addition of a Pay As You Save program beginning in 2021, which will allow utilities to invest in efficiency upgrades on customers’ side of the meter. Costs can then be recovered through tariffed charges on these customers’ bills.
The Commission earlier established that this would allow greater energy efficiency and demand savings for those without extensive funds to throw at energy investments and opens the door to get more people involved in such programs.
