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Compliance with Missouri's Renewable Energy Standard

Missouri utilities are blatantly disregarding the state’s renewable energy requirement. So Renew Missouri and our partners across the state have filed legal action to require compliance with the law. Add your voice with this petition! History/Context: In 2008, two-thirds of Missouri voters demanded that investor-owned utilities increase their use of renewable energy. This was the highest passage margin of any statewide renewable energy initiative ever. Last year, utilities were required to demonstrate that 2% of their energy came from renewable sources. However,utilities have built virtually no new renewable energy; instead, they have sought to confuse the intent of the law through their influence in Jefferson City. How are they out of compliance? 1. Roll-Over Energy: Utilities claim they can comply by using "old renewable energy" created at a time when the law wasn’t even in effect.  This is like trying to roll over cell phone minutes from a time before you even had the phone. 2. Old Hydro-Electric Plants:  Utilities are trying to use large, century-old hydroelectric facilities, even though the law explicitly forbids the use of these large hydro facilities. 3. We Demand Power, Not Credits: The Missouri renewable energy law was passed to bring Missouri new, cleaner sources of energy and create jobs here at home. Instead, IOUs are wasting our money on “renewable credits” from far-away states that deliver no electricity to Missouri. This means that Missouri sees no new jobs and no change in how we get our energy, while out-of-state energy producers see larger profits. We need to invest in Missouri's economy and create local jobs! Missouri gets roughly 85% of our energy from Wyoming coal, sending $1.3 billion out of our state every year. If we instead invested in clean energy back home, we would keep some of that money in our local economies and create thousands of jobs, giving us cleaner air and healthier people in the process. Help us deliver 21st century jobs and clean energy to Missouri by signing on to this petition that asks the Public Service Commission to do THEIR job and FORCE utilities to follow the law.

Supporting Organizations The following groups have signed on to our complaint and are aligned in efforts to require utilities to follow the law. RES Complaint News January 31, 2013 Post-Dispatch: Complaint says Ameren is circumventing green power law January 30, 2013 Renew Missouri Press Release: Advocates Take Legal Action Against Non-Compliant Missouri Electric Utilities Documents filed with PSC EC-2013-0377-Formal Complaint (Ameren)EC-2013-0378-Formal Complaint (Empire)EC-2013-0379-Formal Complaint (KCPL)EC-2013-0380-Formal Complaint (GMO)EC-2013-0381-Formal Complaint (Ameren)EC-2013-0382-Formal Complaint (Empire)

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StLouis Your Future Electric Bills-Missouri Madness:Round 2

The Missouri General Assembly is currently considering legislation that would allow Missouri's monopoly utilities to place an expensive new surcharge on their customers' electric bills. This new surcharge would bypass the traditional ratemaking process that has served Missouri consumers well and weaken Public Service Commission oversight.  Vote the proposed new utility surcharge the worst idea in Missouri here.

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Dear Scotts, We advanced to Round 2 of Missouri Madness! Missouri has voted the proposed new utility surcharge one of the worst bills in the Missouri legislature. Make sure that this legislation makes it to the next round. Vote here today. The Missouri General Assembly is currently considering legislation that would allow Missouri's monopoly utilities to place an expensive new surcharge on their customers' electric bills. This new surcharge would bypass the traditional ratemaking process that has served Missouri consumers well and weaken Public Service Commission oversight.  Vote the proposed new utility surcharge the worst idea in Missouri here. Let's make sure that our Missouri legislature gets the message: the new utility surcharge is bad for Missouri consumers. Vote today and forward this message on to a friend and ask them to do the same. Sincerely, The FERAF Team Fair Energy Rate Action Fund • PO Box 1153 • Jefferson City, MO 65102 Paid for by the Fair Energy Rate Action Fund. www.fairenergyrates.org

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We need more petition signers for the RES Complaint!

In case you missed it, our state's renewable energy standard is being ignored by the utilities. We filed a complaint last month, asking the government to make them comply and we'd like your voice in there with us. So far, we've got 500 out of our goal of 3,000 signers. Please help us create the renewable energy we voted for by signing our petition.

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Legislative Update

Seven weeks remain in the 2013 legislative session, and you might be curious what bills we're watching. If you haven't called up your legislator, there's some good bills and some bad ones to talk about now. So here are the proposed efficiency and renewables legislation that we've got our eyes on:

OPPOSED Bills:

• HB 44 - Allows hydropower produced in any quantity to be used to satisfy the renewable energy standard
  • Sponsor: Bart Korman, House District 42
  • Last Action: 3/07/2013 - Second read and referred: Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy, and the Environment
  • Why we oppose: Allowing old hydro damns to count toward the RES would gut the RES resulting in no new renewable generation. 

SUPPORTED Bills:

• SB 398 - Extends the expiration of an income tax deduction for energy efficiency audits and projects to December 31, 2019
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 4/4/2013 - Senate hearing scheduled
  • Why we support: This act encourages investment in the best and cheapest source of energy – efficiency.
• SB 277 - Establishes the Missouri Energy Efficiency Performance Standard
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/20/2013 - Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: This act would require mandatory energy efficiency measures by electrical corporations, gas corporations, municipals utilities, and rural electrical cooperatives to reach specified energy savings as dictated by the PSC, resulting in MO becoming a leading state in EE. 
• SB 299 - Establishes the Capital Green Program to provide funding for energy efficiency improvements to certain state buildings
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/26/2013 - Hearing Conducted Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: This act would provide funding for energy efficiency improvements including geothermal, wind, and solar energy resources to certain state buildings.
• SB 368 - Prohibits certain property associations from barring the installation of solar energy systems
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/28/2013 - Second Read and Referred to Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: Under this act, the adoption of a bylaw or exercise of any power by the governing entity of an association prohibiting the installation of a solar energy system is expressly prohibited.
• SB 400 - Modifies provisions relating to the renewable energy standard
• Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
• Last Action - 3/13/2013 - Second Read and Referred Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
• Why we support: This act reinstates the requirement that  renewable energy credits are generated from renewable energy sources and that has been sold as power to Missouri energy consumers.

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Ameren UE -Dirty Coal Money-Influencing StLouis Elections

Would the $4,609,271.00 Previously Donated $ be better spent

for the Infrastructure Improvements instead of the Proposed Electrical Rate Increases?

↑Noteworthy Contributor↑	Years	Company or PAC Contributions	Subsidiary Contributions	Employee Contributions	Grand Total
*AMEREN Electric Utilities	2004-2012	$4,225,462	$265,388	$118,422	$4,609,271

As the national health-care reform debate rages on in Washington, D.C., lawmakers in many states are offering complementary — or counter — proposals. Similar efforts are occurring around energy and climate-change policy, and other policies, at both the state and national levels.

A groundbreaking collaboration by the National Institute on Money in State Politics and the Center for Responsive Politics created this unique view of the top 10,000 donors to political campaigns at both the state and national level—information that exists nowhere else. State political campaign money includes donations to political parties and ballot measure committees, as well as to candidates for elected office.

Top donors consist of companies, labor organizations, and special interest groups. Totals include money given by employees, subsidiaries, and/or locals affiliated with the donor.

Of the $5,784,749,560 in itemized contributions that was given to state-level state and federal federal political campaigns during the 2007 and 2008 election cycles, $22,709,783 (0.4%) came from the 7 (of the top 10,000 1,000 100 ) state and federal contributors that matched your search of(Electric Utilities) (in Missouri).

In Missouri statewide political campaigns, $105,568,078 was given in itemized contributions.7 of the top 10,000 national contributors donated within Missouri, to the tune of $227,815(0.2%).

Results: 1-7 of 7

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Rank	Contributor Industry	Missouri Total	State-level Total	Federal Total	↓Combined Total↓
113	NATIONAL RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE ASSOCIATION Electric Utilities	$39,000	$1,754,409	$1,789,600	$3,544,009
416	AMEREN Electric Utilities	$66,140	$962,417	$205,725	$1,168,142
2045	GREAT PLAINS ENERGY Electric Utilities	$46,000	$171,516	$77,865	$249,381
2932	AQUILA Electric Utilities	$63,000	$146,291	$26,633	$172,924
4662	EMPIRE DISTRICT ELECTRIC CO Electric Utilities	$13,675	$102,290	$3,200	$105,490

Lobbyist Clients Results

↑Lobbyist Client↑	Years	# of States Lobbied in	Lobbyists
AMEREN Electric Utilities	2003-2012	2	257
AMEREN ENERGY RESOURCES Uncoded	2011	1	4
AMEREN ENERGY SERVICES Electric Utilities	2009	1	1
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	4
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	1
AMEREN/UE Electric Utilities	2008	1	3
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMEREN UE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	2
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2003-2007	1	24
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES Electric Utilities	2008	1	2
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	7
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBA AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1
UNION ELECTRIC CO DBS AMERENUE AMEREN SERVICES AMEREN CORP Uncoded	2008	1	1

Contributor	Year	Records	Total
AMEREN	2004	144	$104,975
AMEREN	2006	56	$101,095
AMEREN	2008	211	$233,593
AMEREN	2010	240	$185,605
AMEREN	2011	7	$66,000
AMEREN	2012	356	$547,839

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Summary of Data Sources

The Institute currently receives its Missouri data from the Missouri Ethics Commission. The Institute obtains scanned images from the Web and supplements those by obtaining the paper reports filed by candidates who do not report electronically.

After the Institute receives the contribution information and puts it into a database, staff members verify that all candidates are represented in the database and that their political party affiliations and their win/loss statuses are correct. Researchers then standardize the contributor names and assign political donors an economic interest code, based either on the occupation and employer information contained on the disclosure reports or on information found through a variety of research resources. These codes are closely modeled on the Federal Securities and Exchange Commission system.

This unique database can be searched for multi-state and national trends, allowing ordinary citizens and professional researchers to "follow the money" behind key issues and from key contributors across state lines.

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