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Great Plains Energy News

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7 hrs ago | KansasCity.com

KCP&L seeks electric rate boost up to 17%

If you’re a KCPL customer, the price to stay cool could go up next summer.And if that doesn’t make you hot, this might: The utility wants to increase electric rates by as much as 17.5 percent.Kansas ...

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Related Topix: Iatan, MO, Missouri, Energy, Aquila

Sat Sep 06, 2008

Earth Times

KCP&L Files Rate Increase Requests in Missouri and Kansas

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - KCP&L today filed rate increase requests with the Missouri Public Service Commission and the Kansas Corporation Commission to increase base rates for electric service in all five of its ...

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Related Topix: Iatan, MO, Alternative Energy, Science / Technology, Wind Power, Renewable Energy (Green Energy), Energy, Kansas City, MO, Missouri

Fri Sep 05, 2008

PR-inside.com

Great Plains Energy (NYSE:GXP) Conference Call Advisory

How To Listen: 1. Please dial toll-free 800-366-3908 or for international callers dial 303-262-2130 fifteen minutes prior to the call.

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Related Topix: Energy, Kansas City, MO

Kansas City Star

Mayor asks for task force focused on reviving neighborhoods

Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser announced Tuesday that he would ask the City Council to create a task force focused on reviving economically distressed neighborhoods.He said he would introduce the ordinance ...

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Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Energy

Wed Sep 03, 2008

Kansas City Business Journal

Tortoise North American Energy names Thummel as president

Tortoise North American Energy Corp. 's board has named Rob Thummel as president, effective immediately.

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Related Topix: Energy

Fri Aug 22, 2008

Kansas.com

2 Wichita companies will pitch for capital

Two Wichita companies are among the 11 that will be pitching their business to investors at the Great Plains Capital Conference next month.

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Related Topix: Energy, Wichita Metro, Wichita, KS, Venture Capital, Emerging Technology

Thu Aug 14, 2008

Kansas City Business Journal

KCP&L will consolidate training centers in south KC

Kansas City Power & Light Co. plans to build an operations center that will bring 300 to 500 existing jobs to south Kansas City.

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Related Topix: Kansas City, MO, Energy, Lees Summit, MO

Sat Aug 09, 2008

PR-inside.com

Great Plains Energy and KCPandL Announce Realignment of Executive Team

In addition, the new structure will ensure effective management of several key initiatives, including the realization of customer savings through the efficient integration of Aquila and KCP&L operations, the ...

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Related Topix: Energy, Aquila

Wed Aug 06, 2008

Platts

KCP&L looks at nuclear power in light of regulatory uncertainties

In response to the uncertainty surrounding possible greenhouse gas emission regulations, Kansas City Power & Light wants to begin exploring adding nuclear generation to its supply mix, according to a long-range ...

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Related Topix: Energy

TMCnet

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RDATE:05082008 StandoutStocks.com "Stocks that Standout" today are: Beacon Redevelopment Industrial Corporation , Great Plains Energy Incorporated , Interactive Data Corporation , Patriot Scientific Corp.

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Related Topix: Semiconductors, Electronics, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Scientific Instruments, PPT Vision, Lewis County, WV, Interactive Data, Media, Energy, Computers, IT Services

Wed Jul 30, 2008

Hays Daily News

Texan brings wind, natural gas campaign to Kan ...

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is beginning a series of town hall meetings on energy with an event Wednesday in Topeka.

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Related Topix: Energy, Finney County, KS, Washburn University, University of Missouri System, University of Missouri Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas Government

Tue Jul 29, 2008

The Topeka Capital-Journal

Texan brings wind, natural gas campaign to Kan.

Texas oilman T. Boone Pickens is beginning a series of town hall meetings on energy with an event Wednesday in Topeka.

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Related Topix: Energy, Finney County, KS, Olathe, KS, Topeka, KS, Topeka Metro

Sat Jul 26, 2008

Kansas City Business Journal

Aquila HQ hits the market, could be tough sell

Kansas City's first skyscraper is on the market following the sale of its most recent occupant.

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Related Topix: Energy, Aquila

Thu Jul 24, 2008

KSHB-TV Kansas City

Is the Traditional Shopping Mall Extinct?

The financially strapped Great Mall of the Great Plains is about to be sold. Now only two traditional shopping malls remain in the Kansas City area- Independence Center and Oak Park Mall.

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Related Topix: Energy, Kansas City, MO, Independence, MO

Thu Jul 17, 2008

St. Louis Nursing News

Acquisition of Aquila now completed

Great Plains Energy completed its acquisition of Aquila, the community's primary provider of electricity, on Monday, July 14.

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Related Topix: Energy

The Cass County Democrat Missourian

Aquila fades to black - new era begins

For 91 years after its founding as Green Light and Power Company, Western Missourians have shared an interesting relationship with "their" electric utility.After a July 1 pronouncement by the Missouri Public ...

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Related Topix: Belton, MO, Kansas City, MO, Kansas City (University of Missouri System), University of Missouri System, Energy, Cass County, MO

Sat Jul 12, 2008

St. Joseph News-Press, St. Joseph, MO

Local control of utility slips further away

Local control of electricity moves another step away tomorrow, when Kansas City Power & Light officially takes over Aquila.

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Related Topix: Environmental Law, Law, Energy, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Thu Jul 10, 2008

Nevada Daily Mail/Sunday Nevada Herald

Utility merger takes place

A map displays the new KCP&L coverage area. Nevada is within the orange, or Southeast area.

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Related Topix: Energy, Keytesville, MO, Nevada, MO

Fri Jul 04, 2008

Kansas City InfoZine

Olathe's Public Fireworks Display, Personal Fireworks Prohibited

The free display will begin at approximately 9:30 p.m. July 4 at the Great Mall of the Great Plains, 20700 W. 151st St.

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Related Topix: Energy, Olathe, KS

Wed Jul 02, 2008

Kansas City Business Journal

Missouri PSC OKs Aquila sale to Great Plains Energy

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