Ameren wants another 10%.
Tell the Public Service Commission no.
That’s about $13 a month more on the average bill, on top of last year’s 12% increase. Third increase in five years. Rep. Brad Christ has filed his opposition with the Commission. Now it’s your turn. It takes about three minutes.
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Click the button below. It opens the Commission's public comment form in a new tab.
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Enter the case number into Related Submission No. field:
ER-2026-0291
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Say who you are, where you live, and what a third increase in five years means for your household. Two or three sentences is plenty.
Every comment becomes part of the official record in the case. The Commission reads them.
Where I Stand
Rep. Brad Christ
96th District
Ameren has asked the Public Service Commission for another 10% rate increase. That’s about $13 a month on the average family’s bill, on top of the 12% increase that hit last summer. It would be the third increase in five years.
I’m opposed to it, and I’ve filed my opposition with the Commission.
I get the same bill you do. Erin and I have four kids, and I know what it costs to keep the lights and the air on in August. Ameren says this request is about storm repairs and grid upgrades. Some of that work is real. But a family in Crestwood or Fenton should not be asked to absorb a third double-digit increase without the Commission going through every line of it.
That’s exactly why I voted for Senate Bill 4 last year. Ameren can ask for whatever it wants. The Commission decides what it gets, and SB 4 limits how fast its rates can actually grow. If a data center or any other big power user ever comes to St. Louis County, the law says it pays its share of the cost to serve it, and it bars Ameren from shifting those costs onto you.
I’ll keep you posted as the case moves.
Not sure what to say? Start here.
The Commission wants to hear from real customers in real words. You don’t need to be an expert. Pick one or two of these and say them your way:
- How much your bill went up after last summer's 12% increase, and what another $13 a month would mean at your house.
- Whether you're on a fixed income, have kids at home, or run a small business, and how a third increase in five years lands on your budget.
- Ameren says its electricity sales could grow more than 60% in five years, almost all of it from data centers and other huge new users. Ask the Commission to make sure those users pay their own way, not you.
- Ask the Commission to hold Ameren to the limits in Senate Bill 4 and to go through every line of this request before approving anything.
Write it in your own words. Sign it with your name and your town. The Commission reads every one.
Keep me posted on this case
The Commission will hold hearings and issue a decision over the coming months. Brad will send a short update each time something happens, and nothing else.
Done? Ask a neighbor to do the same.
Constituent opposition is strongest when our entire community speaks together.
The request, by the numbers
Requested Rate Hike
About 10%
Increase Ameren is asking for
Monthly Impact
~$13 / mo
What it costs the average home
(about $13 a month, $156 a year)
Prior Rate Adjustment
12% Increase
Last increase: took effect June 2025
Cumulative Frequency
3rd in 5 Years
How many in five years: this would be the third
Corporate Earnings Target
~$343M
New revenue Ameren is seeking a year
Commercial Surge Demand
>60% Projected
Growth Ameren projects in electricity sales over 5 years
Driven overwhelmingly by data centers and other large new users (Ameren testimony, Wills Direct, p. 5)
Regulatory Registry
ER-2026-0291
Missouri Public Service Commission Case Number
How a rate case works
Ameren can ask for whatever it wants. The Commission decides what it gets.
Ameren filed this request on June 26, 2026. Over the next several months, the Commission’s staff and the Office of Public Counsel, the state agency whose only job is to represent customers in cases like this one, go through the request line by line. The Commission holds public hearings where customers can speak in person, then an evidentiary hearing, and then issues a decision. Under Missouri law the whole process takes about eleven months, so a decision is expected in the spring of 2027.
Your comment is read and entered into the record before the Commission decides. Brad’s is already in.
Latest update, September 14, 2026: Rep. Christ filed his opposition with the Commission.