Senate passes bill barring natural gas bans
The Kansas Senate took a step Thursday to cutting off a national trend toward banning natural gas hookups as local governments fight climate change...
Lawmakers seek study of ‘potential adverse’ effects from wind, solar, electric power
Lawmakers moved on Monday to order a broad study of the health and environmental effects of wind turbines, power transmission lines, solar panels and...
Little-used strategy employed to stop prairie chicken regs in Congress
The state's Republican congressional delegation is stepping up efforts to force the Biden administration to abandon a rule protecting the lesser prairie chicken under...
Missouri regulators sign off on Kansas gas plants
Missouri utility regulators have signed off on Evergy's proposal to build two natural gas plants in Kansas, a decision reached over in the Sunflower...
New, more open electric rate study filed
A consultant has turned in a new electric rate study to regulators, replacing a version with 40 pages of blacked out passages.
AECOM Technical Services,...
Voluntary rate reduction would cost KCP&L $400 million yearly
A voluntary electric rate reduction of 10 percent would cost the newly merged KCP&L and Westar Energy about $400 million a year, a top...
Battle unfolds over proposed power plant purchase
Big industry is teaming up with consumer advocates to block Westar from purchasing a share of a coal-fired power plant in northeast Kansas.
A coalition...
Governor announces new KCC nominee
(Developing: Will be updated)
Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday announced that she's nominating an Overland Park utilities lawyer to the Kansas Corporation Commission.
Kelly is naming...
Legislature sends $1 million electric rate study to governor
A $1 million study of Kansas electric rates is headed to the governor after winning approval in the Legislature.
The House and Senate on Tuesday...
Kansas picked as site for innovative underground nuclear reactor
A California company has picked Kansas as the site for pioneering a novel nuclear reactor that will be built underground in southeast Kansas and...
