Union Electric Company, doing business as Ameren Missouri, operates as a rate-regulated electric generation, transmission, and distribution company in Missouri. It generates electricity through coal, nuclear, natural gas, hydroelectric, methane gas, and solar energy sources. The company is also involved in the rate-regulated natural gas distribution business. It supplies electric services to 1.2 million customers and natural gas service to 0.1 million customers to a 24,000-square-mile area in central and eastern Missouri. The company was founded in 1881 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri. Union Electric Company is a subsidiary of Ameren Corporation.