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Council received a staff and consultant briefing on the Electric Resource Plan (Integrated Resource Plan), including load forecasts, modeling scenarios, and costs for meeting future capacity. Presentations showed potential shortfalls after the Sikeston retirement, options such as batteries, wind, solar, flexible natural gas and small modular reactors, and a recommendation to continue planning and hold a renewable energy work session; no formal IRP action was taken.
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City staff and consultants explained how the city forecasts future electricity needs and tested different ways to keep power reliable. The report found a likely capacity shortfall without new resources and outlined trade-offs between batteries, renewables, and natural gas — doing nothing would raise costs and risk reliability. The council will explore the options further in a future renewable energy work session, and will decide Planning & Zoning Commission appointments at a later meeting.
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