Westar Energy Company Profile

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Company Name	Westar Energy
Website	www.evergy.com
Snippet	Evergy is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock that has its headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was formed from a merger of Westar Energy of Topeka and Great Plains Energy of Kansas City, Missouri, parent company of Kansas City Power & Light. Evergy is the largest electric company in Kansas, serving more than 1,000,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers[2] in the eastern half of the state. Evergy has a generating capacity of 16,000 megawatt electricity from its over 40 power plants in Kansas and Missouri. Evergy service territory covers 28,130 square miles (72,900 km2) in east Kansas and west Missouri. Evergy owns more than 13,700 miles (22,000 km) of transmission lines and about 52,000 miles of distribution lines.
Type	Public
Founded	1882
Revenue	$5.148 billion (2019)$4.276 billion (2018)[1]
Website	www.evergy.com
Industry	Electric utility
Products	Electricity generationElectric power transmissionElectricity distribution
Traded as	NYSE: EVRG, S&P 500 component
Key people	Terry Bassham (CEO)
Area served	Western half of Missouri and eastern half of Kansas1.6 million customers
Predecessor	Company formed with mergers from Kansas Gas and Electric (KGE) & Kansas Power and Light (KPL) in 1992; Aquila (ILA) & Kansas City Power and Light (GXP) in 2008; Westar Energy (WR) and Kansas City Power and Light (GXP) in 2018
Headquarters	Topeka, Kansas, (admin. offices)Kansas City, Missouri, (corporate)
Number of employees	5,000

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