[8-K] AMEREN CORP Reports Material Event
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Ameren Corporation reported that its board of directors elected Timothy S. Rausch as a new director. His term begins on March 1, 2026 and will run until the company’s 2026 annual meeting of shareholders.
Rausch will serve on Ameren’s Finance Committee and the Nuclear, Operations and Environmental Sustainability Committee. He will receive compensation under Ameren’s standard non-employee director program. Ameren highlights Rausch’s deep nuclear-generation experience, including leadership roles as Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer at the Tennessee Valley Authority and prior chief nuclear officer roles at Talen Energy and PPL Corporation.
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ITEM 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.
(d) On February 6, 2026, the Board of Directors (the "Board") of Ameren Corporation ("Ameren") elected Timothy S. Rausch to the Board, with a term beginning on March 1, 2026, and expiring at Ameren's Annual Meeting of Shareholders in 2026. Also effective March 1, 2026, the Board appointed Mr. Rausch to the Finance Committee and the Nuclear, Operations and Environmental Sustainability Committee of the Board. No arrangement or understanding exists between Mr. Rausch and Ameren or, to Ameren's knowledge, any other person or persons pursuant to which Mr. Rausch was selected as a director. Mr. Rausch will participate in the Company’s standard non-employee director compensation program as more fully described in the Company’s Proxy Statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 25, 2025.
Mr. Rausch served as Executive Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer of Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA") from October 2018 to July 2025. TVA is a federally owned electric utility corporation serving over 10 million people across the southeastern United States. He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Nuclear Officer of both Talen Energy Corporation, from June 2015 to September 2018, and PPL Corporation, from June 2009 to June 2015.
Mr. Rausch had no business relationships with Ameren or its subsidiaries in 2025 or to the date hereof in 2026 which are required to be reported under Item 404(a) of the Securities and Exchange Commission Regulation S-K.
ITEM 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure.
On February 9, 2026, Ameren issued a press release announcing Mr. Rausch's election to the Board. A copy of that press release is furnished as Exhibit 99.1 to this Report.
ITEM 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.
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| 99.1 | Press release issued on February 9, 2026, by Ameren. | |
| 104 | Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL). | |
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| AMEREN CORPORATION | ||
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| By: | /s/ David M. Feinberg | |
| Name: | David M. Feinberg | |
| Title: | Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary | |
Date: February 9, 2026
Exhibit 99.1
1901 Chouteau Avenue : St. Louis, MO 63103 : Ameren.com
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Media Ameren Communications 314.554.2182 communications@ameren.com |
Financial Analysts and Institutional Investors Andrew Kirk 314.554.3942 akirk@ameren.com |
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| For Immediate Release | |
| Tim Rausch joins Ameren board of directors | |
| ST. LOUIS (Feb. 9, 2026) — Ameren Corporation (NYSE: AEE) announced today that Timothy S. Rausch has been elected to the Ameren board of directors, effective March 1. |
| Rausch served as executive vice president and chief nuclear officer of Tennessee Valley Authority ("TVA") from October 2018 to July 2025. TVA is a federally owned electric utility corporation serving over 10 million people across the southeastern United States. He previously served as senior vice president and chief nuclear officer of both Talen Energy Corporation from June 2015 to September 2018 and PPL Corporation from June 2009 to June 2015. Earlier in his career, he also held various leadership positions in nuclear generation at Exelon Nuclear Corporation and FirstEnergy Corporation. |  |
| "Tim is a recognized leader in nuclear generation and will bring tremendous value to Ameren's board of directors based on his extensive experience leading high-performing nuclear generation operations at some of the largest electric utilities in the country," said Martin J. Lyons, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Ameren. "Nuclear generation will continue to be an important element of Ameren's diverse generation resource strategy to ensure reliable, resilient and affordable energy for our customers." | |
| Rausch earned a Master of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and a Bachelor of Science in nuclear engineering from the University of Cincinnati. | |
| About Ameren Corporation | |
| St. Louis-based Ameren Corporation powers the quality of life for 2.5 million electric customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a 64,000-square-mile area through its Ameren Missouri and Ameren Illinois rate-regulated utility subsidiaries. Ameren Illinois provides electric transmission and distribution service and natural gas distribution service. Ameren Missouri provides electric generation, transmission and distribution service, as well as natural gas distribution service. Ameren Transmission Company of Illinois develops, owns and operates rate-regulated regional electric transmission projects in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. For more information, visit Ameren.com, or follow us at @AmerenCorp, Facebook.com/AmerenCorp, or LinkedIn.com/company/Ameren. |
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