utilities

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.

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.

Segment 1, beginning at 4:12: Current Washington debates revolve around who should get a bailout due to the COVID-19 crisis.Congress seems willing to…

Segment 1, beginning at 4:12: Current Washington debates revolve around who should get a bailout due to the COVID-19 crisis.Congress seems willing to…

This is a tale of two types of Kansas cities: those that had the foresight to own their own streetlights and those that do not.

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

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

WICHITA, Kansas — This city’s buses all run on diesel. They navigate Wichita streets with the distinctive rumble of their time-tested engines, belching...

The way Westar Energy runs its coal plants in Kansas unnecessarily costs consumers millions of dollars a year through an obscure, if common, practice...

Solar panel users in Kansas continue to pay higher electricity bills as they wait for utility company Evergy to keep a promise made during this year’s...

Wind is beginning to challenge coal’s status as the primary energy source for electricity produced in Kansas.