The devastating tornado that swept across St. Louis on May 16, 2025, caused significant damage to electric infrastructure throughout the region. The storm broke more than 800 wooden power poles, setting off a multi-day effort to safely restore service to tens of thousands of customers affected by the damage. The night of the storm, Ameren Missouri had more than 500 crew members on the ground — a number that grew to more than 2,000 as contractors and utilities across the country sent reinforcements to the St. Louis area.

Ameren has been recognized by the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) as one of 99 economic development organizations certified as an Accredited Economic Development Organization (AEDO) — a comprehensive peer review process that measures economic development organizations against commonly held standards in the profession.

As scammers leverage powerful AI techniques to create convincing frauds, Ameren provides helpful tips on how to avoid common scams that target utility customers. Scams today are increasingly more convincing, which makes them harder to detect. Common tactics include official-looking emails, texts and websites; voice cloning that sounds like a real representative; fake online ads that appear when people search for help with their energy bill; and robocalls that record a customer’s voice for scammers to misuse later as “verbal approval” for other unauthorized purchases.

When Subash Alias talks about economic development, he doesn’t start with incentives, industrial sites or project announcements. He starts with pride. Long before he became CEO of Missouri Partnership, Alias was a college student at St. Ambrose University in the Quad Cities who found himself explaining his hometown to classmates who didn’t know much about St. Louis.