Kansas and Missouri’s largest utilities earned nearly failing grades for their progress transitioning to renewable sources of energy, according to a new report from a national environmental group.
Evergy customers and environmental activists urged the Kansas Corporation Commission to endorse the utility company’s new energy efficiency programs, but also look beyond that plan to help low-income residential customers save money by slashing their electricity demand.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
Evergy wants to remind people to report powerlines that have blown into tree limbs or become entangled with trees and to stay far away.
Lawrence’s electric utility provider is reporting a surge in phone scams using false information to gather credit card information from customers.
Evergy customers in Kansas could soon get discounts and rebates to upgrade their homes to be more energy efficient.
Tom Harper/The Lawrence Times
Here’s an update on the streetlights casting a blue-purple hue over Lawrence’s roadways.
Four of the five members on Evergy’s finance committee, tasked with recommending management and investment decisions to the board of directors, were selected by activist hedge funds that critics worry are asserting undue influence over the electric utility.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Evergy can retire two more coal-burning power plants within the decade without sacrificing affordability or massively increasing rates, environmental advocates say in a new report.
Evergy and environmental groups agree investing in energy efficiency is far cheaper for the company and, in turn, its customers than having to add more electric generation, like new wind farms.
Jill Hummels/Kansas Reflector
Evergy will convert part of its Lawrence coal plant to run occasionally on natural gas despite earlier plans to shutter it completely and fall short of earlier pledges to add massive amounts of solar power to the electric grid, the utility revealed in regulatory filings this week.
