Missouri is home to some of the lowest energy rates in the country for our business and residential consumers. We enjoy these low rates largely due to long-term strategic planning that took place decades ago. Those plans led our state’s leaders to invest in large baseload coal plants and a nuclear plant.

These plants operate at a low cost and run 24 hours a day, seven days a week. But they won’t run forever. We need to plan once again to ensure that Missouri’s electricity rates remain affordable. The nuclear site permit bill provides our state with a clear, affordable path forward.

In a recent poll, 66 percent of Missourians said they are in favor of keeping the option open for nuclear power. Nuclear power is low-cost, clean and reliable — and construction of a second plant would bring thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in economic investment to our state. In Callaway County, we already have a nuclear plant, and the site would be perfect for a second unit. But due to special interests, nuclear power may no longer be an option for Missouri.  

That’s because a few large companies have a special deal that allows them to pay less than half of what you do. To protect their low rates, these companies have hired lobbyists to fight the nuclear site permit bill, legislation our state needs to move forward with nuclear power. So far, these companies have been successful in winning the political battle. Unfortunately, that means we all lose the energy war. Please contact your legislators today and tell them you support the nuclear site permit bill and a strong energy plan for Missouri.