Commitments And Contingencies (Tables)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2013

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Insurance Coverage at Callaway Energy Center

The following table presents insurance coverage at Ameren Missouri’s Callaway energy center at March 31, 2013. The property coverage and the nuclear liability coverage must be renewed on April 1 and January 1, respectively, of each year.



Type and Source of Coverage	Maximum Coverages			Maximum Assessments for Single Incidents
Public liability and nuclear worker liability:
American Nuclear Insurers	$	375		$	—
Pool participation	12,219		^(a)	118		^(b)
	$	12,594	^(c)	$	118
Property damage:
Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd.	$	2,750	^(d)	$	23
Replacement power:
Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd.	$	490	^(e)	$	9
Missouri Energy Risk Assurance Company	$	64	^(f)	$	—


(a)	Provided through mandatory participation in an industry-wide retrospective premium assessment program.


(b)	Retrospective premium under Price-Anderson. This is subject to retrospective assessment with respect to a covered loss in excess of $375 million in the event of an incident at any licensed United States commercial reactor, payable at $17.5 million per year.

(c)

Limit of liability for each incident under the Price-Anderson liability provisions of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. A company could be assessed up to $118 million per incident for each licensed reactor it operates with a maximum of $17.5 million per incident to be paid in a calendar year for each reactor. This limit is subject to change to account for the effects of inflation and changes in the number of licensed reactors.


(d)	First layer of coverage provides for $500 million in property damage, decontamination, premature decommissioning, and the second layer of coverage provides excess property insurance up to $2.25 billion for losses in excess of the $500 million primary coverage. Effective April 1, 2013, a $1.5 billion sub-limit was established for non-nuclear events.

(e)

Provides the replacement power cost insurance in the event of a prolonged accidental outage at our nuclear energy center. Weekly indemnity up to $4.5 million for 52 weeks, which commences after the first eight weeks of an outage, plus up to $3.6 million per week for a minimum of 71 weeks thereafter for a total not exceeding the policy limit of $490 million. Effective April 1, 2013, non-nuclear events are sub-limited to $327.6 million.

(f)

Provides the replacement power cost insurance in the event of a prolonged accidental outage at our nuclear energy center. The coverage commences after the first 52 weeks of insurance coverage from Nuclear Electric Insurance Ltd. and is for a weekly indemnity up to $900,000 for 71 weeks in excess of the $3.6 million per week set forth above. Missouri Energy Risk Assurance Company LLC is an affiliate and has reinsured this coverage with third-party insurance companies. See Note 9 - Related Party Transactions for more information on this affiliate transaction.

Schedule of Estimated Capital Costs to Comply With Existing and Known Emissions Related Regulations

Continuing Operations:



	2013		2014 - 2017					2018 - 2022					Total
AMO^(a)	$	105	$	215	-	$	260	$	795	-	$	975	$	1,115	-	$	1,340


(a)	Ameren Missouri’s expenditures are expected to be recoverable from ratepayers.

Discontinued Operations:



	2013		2014 - 2017					2018 - 2022					Total
Genco^(a)	30		100		-	125		220		-	270		350		-	425
AERG	5		20		-	25		20		-	25		45		-	55
Total^(b)	$	35	$	120	-	$	150	$	240	-	$	295	$	395	-	$	480


(a)	Includes estimated costs of approximately $20 million annually, excluding capitalized interest, from 2013 through 2017 for construction of two Newton energy center scrubbers.


(b)	Assumes the Merchant Generation facilities are owned by Ameren.

Schedule of Estimated Obligations for Manufactured Gas Plant Remediation

The following table presents, as of March 31, 2013, the estimated probable obligation to remediate these former MGP sites.



	Estimate				Recorded Liability^(a)
	Low		High		Recorded Liability^(a)
Ameren	$	259	$	342	$	259
Ameren Missouri	5		6		5
Ameren Illinois	254		336		254


(a)	Recorded liability represents the estimated minimum probable obligations, as no other amount within the range provided a better estimate.

Schedule of Asbestors-Related Litigation Pending Lawsuits

The following table presents the pending asbestos-related lawsuits filed against the Ameren Companies as of March 31, 2013:


(a)	Total does not equal the sum of the subsidiary unit lawsuits because some of the lawsuits name multiple Ameren entities as defendants.

- Definition

The entire disclosure for environmental loss contingencies, such as presence of hazardous waste, relevant information from reports issued by regulators, and estimated costs to achieve compliance with regulatory requirements. This element may be used for all of an entity's disclosures about environmental loss contingencies.

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