CALLAWAY COUNTY — Ameren Missouri has filed a Certificate of Convenience and Necessity with the Missouri Public Service Commission to build a solar farm on the north side of its nuclear plant in Callaway County.

The plant will have a power capacity of 250 kilowatts and will be located on land that Ameren Missouri owns around the nuclear plant. It will be equipped with battery systems to hold power for future uses.

“That land around it is really used as a buffer for the Callaway Nuclear Facility to make sure nothing encroaches on that facility for safety and reliability purposes, so we really get to utilize that land and put it to more use,” said Scott Wibbenmeyer, the senior director of renewable development and acquisitions for Ameren Missouri.

In addition to the plans it already has,

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