20-1038: Evergy, Inc. is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock with headquarters in Topeka, Kansas , and in Kansas City, Missouri . The company was formed from a merger of Westar Energy of Topeka and Great Plains Energy of Kansas City, parent company of Kansas City Power & Light . Evergy is the largest electric company in Kansas , serving more than 1.7 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in Kansas and Missouri. Its more than 40 power plants have generating capacity of 16,000 megawatt electricity in Kansas and Missouri. Service territory covers 28,130 square miles (72,900 km) in east Kansas and west Missouri. It owns more than 10,100 miles (16,300 km) of transmission lines and about 52,000 miles (84,000 km) of distribution lines . Western Resources
40-563: A holding company, Great Plains Energy Incorporated , was established in Kansas City, Missouri that owned electric utility Kansas City Power and Light Company and Strategic Energy, LLC, an energy management company. It acquired Aquila, Inc. in July, 2008. In 2014, it ranked number 855 on the Fortune 1000 list. In 2016, Great Plains Energy and Westar announced merger plans, but this proposed merger
60-422: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station Wolf Creek Generating Station is a nuclear power plant located near Burlington, Kansas . It occupies 9,818 acres (39.73 km ) of the total 11,800 acres (4,800 ha) controlled by the owner. Its namesake, Wolf Creek, was dammed to create Coffey County Lake (formerly Wolf Creek Lake), and provides water for
80-602: The Evergy (94%), and Kansas Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (6%). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission defines two emergency planning zones around nuclear power plants: a plume exposure pathway zone with a radius of 10 miles (16 km), concerned primarily with exposure to, and inhalation of, airborne radioactive contamination, and an ingestion pathway zone of about 50 miles (80 km), concerned primarily with ingestion of food and liquid contaminated by radioactivity. The 2010 U.S. population within 10 miles (16 km) of Wolf Creek
100-564: The City of Kansas, Missouri, was granted to Lysander R. Moore and later assigned to Kawsmouth Electric Light Company. Construction was begun in February 1882 on a power plant on a tract of land at the southeast corner of 8th and Santa Fe Streets in the West Bottoms. Kawsmouth Electric Light Company built quickly and, on Saturday night, May 13, 1882, brought electric illumination to the first 13 customers on
120-608: The Midwest, serving 560,000 electric customers and 1.06 million natural gas customers in three states. In 1996, Western Resources sold its natural gas business to ONEOK as Kansas Gas Service ; this company is now part of ONE Gas . In return, Western Resources acquired a 45 percent stake in ONEOK; it sold this stake in 2003. In 2002, Western Resources officially changed its name to Westar Energy, and all of its subsidiaries began doing business under that name. Kansas City Power and Light Company
140-535: The Northeast Power station. In June 1919, the company reincorporated again, as Kansas City Power and Light Company. After acquiring the Carroll County Electric Company on July 29, 1922, the reorganized company became Kansas City Power & Light Company, adopting the ampersand and corporate name that continues. Armour sold his interest in 1923. Continental Gas & Electric Corporation purchased
160-717: The Westar and KCP&L brands were retired and the company adopted the Evergy brand across its entire service territory. In 1999, Western Resources restated its consolidated financial statements for 1999, 1998, and 1997 and for each of the periods of 2000, related to the Westinghouse Security Systems (WSS) acquisition. On November 1, 2002, Westar Energy announced the restating of results for its first and second quarter, to account for additional impairment at its Protection One Inc. (POI) unit. On January 14, 2003, Westar Energy Inc
180-411: The company bought competitors and built a new power plant in 1903, providing steam heat to downtown businesses. The company focused on the trolley company and in 1911 it went into receivership. In October 1917, the company spun off the trolley business (which still controlled some power plants) and emerged from bankruptcy as Kansas City Light & Power Company. In 1917, the company began construction on
200-484: The condensers. Construction started on May 30, 1977 and it was commissioned on September 3, 1985, at a cost of US$ 5.771 billion (in 2007 value). This plant has one Westinghouse pressurized water reactor that came online on June 4, 1985. The reactor was rated at 1,170 MW(e). A new turbine generator rotor was installed in 2011 that increased electrical output to approximately 1250 MW(e). The reactor output remained unchanged at 3565 MW (th). On October 4, 2006,
220-618: The controlling interest in 1924 and was part of United Light and Power until United dissolved in 1950. The Hawthorn Station, situated on the Missouri River, was started in 1948, and the first of two units were completed in 1951. Two other units followed and were fully operational by 1956. Kansas City Power became independent in 1950. It acquired Eastern Kansas Utilities in 1952. It was part of a consortium that built Wolf Creek Nuclear Generating Station in Burlington, Kansas . On October 1, 2001,
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#1732881286715240-422: The larger cities in its service territory. KPL was founded in 1924, and quickly expanded across northeastern Kansas. In 1983, it merged with The Gas Service Company, a natural gas utility serving customers in Kansas, Missouri , Nebraska and Oklahoma . In 1992, KPL merged with KG&E to become Western Resources, with KPL and KG&E as operating companies. The merger created one of the largest utilities in
260-538: The operator applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) for a renewal and extension of the plant's operating license. The NRC granted the renewal on November 20, 2008, extending the license from forty years to sixty. On January 13, 2012, at 2 p.m., due to a breaker failure and an unexplained loss of power to an electrical transformer, the plant experienced an automatic reactor trip and loss of offsite power that lasted 3 hours. The nuclear plant
280-711: The west side of Main Street in the downtown district. In 1885, the company reincorporated as Kansas City Electric Light Company. Weeks spun off the Edison Electric Light & Power Company to meet residential demand. An electric war ensued when in 1883 J. Ogden Armour , heir to the Armour Packing Company, purchased the company on May 14, 1900, to power the Metropolitan Street Railway Company and Kansas City Electric Light Company. Under Armour,
300-406: Was 5,466, a decrease of 2.8 percent in a decade, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data for msnbc.com. The 2010 U.S. population within 50 miles (80 km) was 176,656, a decrease of 1.7 percent since 2000. Cities within 50 miles include Emporia (30 miles to city center). The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's estimate of the risk each year of an earthquake intense enough to cause core damage to
320-403: Was a target of an unsuccessful cyberattack by hackers in 2017, leading to indictments in 2021. FSB's 16th Center military unit 71330 associated Russian hacker groups Energetic Bear, Berserk Bear and Crouching Yeti were associated with the attacks at Wolf Creek. The Wolf Creek Nuclear Operating Corporation, a Delaware corporation, operates the power plant. The ownership is divided between
340-466: Was an electric utility serving the Kansas City metropolitan area . It was a wholly owned subsidiary, and biggest component, of Great Plains Energy . In November 1881, Joseph S. Chick obtained the exclusive rights to use the Thompson-Houston arc lighting system in the counties of Jackson, Missouri, and Wyandotte, Kansas, for $ 4,000. In December, the initial franchise to establish an electric works in
360-743: Was charged for transactions involving power sales from one Cleco Corporation affiliate to Westar and then back to another or the same Cleco affiliate, and paid $ 30,000,000 for the settlement. On March 25, 2004, Westar Energy restated its 2003 annual financial results, after realizing that it might have understated its cash flow from operations for the year. Evergy has been chosen as 2019 Healthiest 100 Workplaces in America by Springbuk. In May 2019, Forbes named Evergy as one of America’s Best Top 500 Employers. Investor-owned utility Investor-owned utilities ( IOUs ) are private enterprises acting as public utilities . This business-related article
380-582: Was rejected by Kansas Corporation Commission utility regulators as unfavorable to Kansas consumers. A new merger plan with Great Plains was announced in 2017. As of May 24, 2018, this merger has been approved by both the Missouri Public Service Commission and the Kansas Corporation Commission, with the combined company to be named Evergy. KCP&L and Westar became the two operating companies of Evergy. On October 7, 2019,
400-548: Was the product of a 1992 merger between the two major electric companies in eastern Kansas, Kansas Gas and Electric (KG&E) of Wichita and Kansas Power and Light (KPL) of Topeka. KG&E was founded in 1909 when the American Power and Light Company took over electric companies in Wichita, Pittsburg and Frontenac . Within a decade, it served over 48,000 people in 50 cities and towns. It also provided natural gas to several of
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