In 2005, Ameren donated 105 fuel cell kits, totaling $150,000, to teachers throughout Ameren's service areas in Missouri and Illinois. High school science teachers can use the kits -- and a curriculum that reinforces Ameren''s commitment to the environment and explains energy generation through renewable resources -- to build awareness of renewable energy sources through hands-on experiments.

Recipient schools in Missouri were:

     South Elementary School                    Eldon
     McCluer North High School                  Florissant
     Hayti High School                          Hayti
     Northwest Valley Middle School             House Springs
     Helias Interparish High School             Jefferson City
     Louisiana R-2 High School                  Louisiana
     Parkway South High School                  Manchester
     Mexico Public Schools                      Mexico
     Moberly Middle School                      Moberly
     Riverbend School                           Pacific
     Portageville School District               Portageville
     Risco High School                          Risco
     Orchard Farm Middle School                 St. Charles
     Hardin Middle School                       St. Charles
     Lewis and Clark Career Center              St. Charles
     St. Charles West                           St. Charles
     Metro Academic and Classical High School   St. Louis
     Webster Middle School                      St. Louis
     Viburnum Middle School                     Viburnum
     St. Francis Borgia Regional High           Washington
     Annunciation Catholic School               Webster Groves
     Wellsville-Middletown R-1 High             Wellsville
     Wentzville Middle School                   Wentzville
     Lafayette High School                      Wildwood

"We support our communities in many ways beyond our basic role of providing reliable gas and electric service," said AmerenUE Energy Delivery Senior Vice President Richard Mark. "This program supported education throughout Ameren's service area -- where school systems are facing some tough financial pressures."

Besides providing fuel cell kits, Ameren's now discontinued Power Up program also provided more than 200 SMART Board(TM) interactive whiteboards -- with a total value of $600,000 -- to K-12 classrooms throughout the Amerenn companies' service areas in Missouri and Illinois. The SMART Board(TM) interactive whiteboard is a touch-sensitive display about the size of a standard whiteboard. Hooked up to a computer and projector, it operates like a giant computer screen that students and teachers simply touch to operate. Students can also write over applications in digital ink and then save their work for future study and review.

In addition, Ameren awarded $250 grants to individual teachers for classroom equipment or supplies of their choice -- up to a total of $150,000 awarded.

Ameren, through its subsidiaries, serves 2.3 million electric customers and more than 900,000 natural gas customers in a 64,000-square-mile area of Missouri and Illinois.