Evergy facts for kids
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| Industry | Electric utility |
| Founded | 1909 |
| Headquarters | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
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Area served
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Western 1/2 of Missouri &Eastern 1/2 of Kansas 1.6 Million customers |
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Key people
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Terry Bassham (CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation, transmission and distribution, |
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Number of employees
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5,000 |
Evergy is an electric utility in Kansas City, Missouri, United States. The company was created from a merger of Westar Energy of Topeka and Great Plains Energy of Kansas City, Missouri. Evergy is the largest electric company in Kansas. They serve 690,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in the eastern third of Kansas.
Images for kids
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Westar headquarters at 818 S Kansas Ave. in downtown Topeka
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The art deco Kansas City Power and Light Building is the former headquarters of the company and was the tallest building west of the Mississippi until 1942, tallest in Missouri until 1976, and tallest in Kansas City until 1986. It is the namesake of the downtown Kansas City Power & Light District.
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Barack Obama in front a KCP&L truck on July 8, 2010, at the Smith Electric Vehicles plant at Kansas City International Airport. KCP&L has bought a fleet of electric powered trucks from the company.
