After reporting profits of $878 million last year, largely because of rate increases, Evergy wants the Kansas Corporation Commission to approve yet another rate hike.
It’s the headlines in some Kansas news outlets as Evergy put in a request to raise rates again. For instance, the headline in the Hutchinson News proclaimed, “Evergy wants $196M rate increase in Kansas after profiting $878M in 2024.”
The big utility, based in Kansas City, has 1.7 million customers in the eastern half of the state.
But the proposed rate hike would apply to the utility’s Evergy Kansas Central service territory, which encompasses 745,000 customers in a region stretching from Leavenworth in the northeast to Salina and Hutchinson in the central part of the state and to Pittsburg in the far southeast corner.