Evergy customers across the KVOE listening area can expect increased monthly bills after an event that’s now better than two years old.
Last week, the Kansas Corporation Commission approved Evergy’s plans to recover costs from the devastating brutal cold of February 2021 through rate increases. Residential customers will see an average monthly increase of around $2.82 between next month and March 2025. Evergy has not listed the average monthly impact on commercial customers.
Evergy says the additional charge will not be listed on bills as separate line items but can be tracked under the “Fuel Used in Power Generation” category. Evergy also says other electric utilities across the central third of the country will likely have bigger rate increases and “per-customer recovery costs.”
Evergy says it has enacted changes to improve power reliability and to limit the risk of future storms, including increasing the amount of on-site fuel storage at some power plants.
