KCP&L

There are differences in the kinds of customers KCP&L serves in each state and differences in our cost to serve each group of customers. Also, the success of adequately setting rates in prior cases that adequately recovered operating costs and capital investments differs between regulatory jurisdictions.  Finally, jurisdictions often set different mechanisms and time frames to recover certain types of costs.  It is these differences that drive different pricing overall, and therefore different increases. In addition, assets, plant and equipment, used to serve customers in the former Aquila service area are separate and distinct from those that serve KCP&L customers. Thus, rates will be different between all the service areas.