April 27, 2020

EVERGY

By Checker Bot

Updated 05-May-2020.

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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Evergy is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock . the company has its headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri . it was formed from a merger of We 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 the merger created one of the largest utilities in the Midwest . it served 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 first franchise to establish an electric works in the City of Kansas, Mo., was granted to Lysander R. Moore . construction was begun in February 1882 on a power plant . in 1885 the company reincorporated the company focused on the trolley company and in 1911 it went into receivership . in October 1917, the company spun off the trolley business and emerged from bankruptcy . 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 . the company adopted the ampersand and corporate name that continues to this day . Armour sold Kansas City Power became independent in 1950. it acquired Eastern Kansas Utilities in 1952 . on October 1, 2001 a holding company was established based in Kansas City, Missouri . the lease is going to be 23 years long . in 2014, it ranked #855 on the Fortune 1000 list . a merger plan with Great Plains was announced in 2017 . the Westar and KCP&L brands were retired, and the company adopted the Evergy brand across its entire service territory . on November 1, 2002, Westar Energy announced to restate results for its first and second quarter .

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