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Renewable energy sources like wind and solar are making coal increasingly less attractive as a way to generate electricity.

Lawmakers basically let utilities refinance the cost of their old power plants. And if they get the debt from those coal-fired facilities off the books, they can shut them down and switch faster to renewable energy sources.

Utilities struggled to keep pace with power demand set off by sub-freezing temperatures that gripped the Midwest.

Evergy had its system for charging customers with solar panels shot down by the courts, so it's exploring other ways to bill them for the expense of keeping the grid on standby.

Utility companies are starting to collect information about how the pandemic cost them money — data they might use to argue for rate hikes.

TOPEKA, Kansas — Curtis Sneden remembers what impatient investors did to Topeka-based Payless Shoes. Pressure for profits now and the bankruptcy that...

The sub-zero cold snap that gripped the Midwest in early February led to a jaw-dropping rise in natural gas prices, the cost of which consumers will feel.

Kansas has no state-sponsored energy plan, which leaves decisions on transforming from fossil fuels to renewable sources up to private businesses.

An independent review of Kansas’ rising electricity prices shows the current system for setting rates could use some improvements. In a lengthy report...

The Missouri Public Service Commission last week approved Evergy’s request to change the default selection for customers who fail to select one of the company’s four time-of-use pricing plans.