Ameren is a electric supplier in this area of NE IL. I have them for a supplier at my house. Following is a copy/paste of a legit email received from them yesterday. I've never seen this type of notice from them in the 35+ years we've had their service. Note they say "due to a shortage of electricity available...". Well, this sure isn't good. We have windmills everywhere. We now have solar farms going in everywhere. There's probably more solar farms under construction right now than has existed totally in the last 5 years. We really don't have any data centers close to us, or relatively so anyway.

So, what's next? I also realize there will be some that will see these rates as dirt cheap compared to what they pay. This is a 25% increase in one jump. I'm not sure why their rates won't go up also. More of the message in the email told you how to conserve electricity.....if someone needs to have that explained.

Copy/Paste from Ameren: