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Our Environmental Stewardship
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AmerenUE is committed to providing our customers with clean, reliable energy, while preserving, protecting and improving the environment. Here are some ways we work with our communities, industry and government to meet this commitment:
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Clean Air
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Pollution Prevention and Control
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Reduction of sulfur dioxide emission rates by using low-sulfur coal in power plants
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Reduction of nitrogen oxide emissions with low-nitrogen oxide burners, combustion control technology and selective catalytic reduction (SCR) units in power plants
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Energy Conservation
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Prudent Management of Energy Resources
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Participation in the ENERGY STARŪ Change a Light, Change the World campaign; rebates on CFLs
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Support of Missouri Schools Going Solar educational program; one-kilowatt solar panels provided to selected schools
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Participation in geothermal system in Park Hills, Mo.; system uses abandoned lead mine facility to heat and cool municipal building
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Preservation
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Initiatives to Preserve and Protect Wildlife
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Partnership with the World Bird Sanctuary; nesting peregrine falcons at power plants and several bird rescues
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Creation of the Reform Conservation Area, 6,300 acres of wildlife and a section of the Katy Trail, a bicycling and hiking trail
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Management of Lake of the Ozarks, including shoreline activities, flood control and improved dissolved oxygen for aquatic species
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Waste Management
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Recycling and Reducing Waste
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Tires to fuel; UE’s Sioux Power Plant burns chipped rubber tires to augment coal as a fuel source; more than 19 million discarded tires have been burned
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Recycling ash; UE and Charah, Inc. opened a concrete packaging facility that recycles more than 10,000 tons of fly ash and 60,000 tons of bottom ash annually into about 2 million bags of concrete mix
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Paint to power; UE’s Meramec Power Plant became the first power plant in the nation to generate electricity by burning a blend of coal and paint solids from Chrysler’s Fenton, Mo., automotive manufacturing plant
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