A consumer watchdog wants federal regulators to acknowledge the influence of activist shareholders on Evergy’s decision-making, mirroring a local push that Kansas regulators rejected.
“Please show your support for closing the coal-powered plants and urge Evergy to use securitization funds to transition to renewable energy by sending your comments to KCC,” Kathleen Harned writes in this letter to the Times.
August Rudisell / Lawrence Times
Kansas and Missouri residents’ utility bills may be helping to bankroll energy sector lobbying against policies aimed at lowering greenhouse gas emissions.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Members of the public will be allowed to comment on Evergy’s five-year sustainability plan after environmental and consumer advocates criticized regulators’ process as not transparent.
Jill Hummels/Kansas Reflector
Evergy more than doubled its earnings in the first quarter compared to the beginning of 2020, largely due to the profits it made on sky-high wholesale energy prices during a February cold snap that forced it to cut off power to thousands of customers across the region.
Brian Grimmett/Kansas News Service
Environmental groups remain unimpressed by Evergy’s plans to close down coal plants in the next 20 years.
Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector
Evergy will retire its coal power plant in Lawrence by the end of 2023, the […]
Environmental and consumer groups are raising alarms about what they claim is limited transparency as Kansas regulators review Evergy’s plan to spend more than $8.9 billion on the utility provider’s infrastructure across the state.
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The sound of an explosion rattled homes all over Lawrence just before 10 p.m. Wednesday, […]
