Ameren invests in 400 MW High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in Missouri

Ameren Missouri, a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation, has closed on the acquisition of the company's first wind energy center, a 400 megawatt (MW) project in northeast Missouri. The purchase of the High Prairie Renewable Energy Center in Adair and Schuyler counties is the first of two planned investments in Missouri-based wind generation, which will add 700 MW of clean energy to the grid.

The wind facility was constructed by an affiliate of Terra-Gen LLC. The energy center consists of 175 wind turbines that are among the most technologically advanced in the state. Ameren Missouri anticipates the energy center will produce enough energy to power the equivalent of 120,000 homes in 2021.