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million that KCP&L had sought. PSC spokesmam Gregg Ochoa said that the PSC staffg estimated the increase will raise a typicalresidential customer’s bill aboutf $12.82 a month. A typical customed is considered to be one that uses 700 kilowat t hours of electricity a month in winteeand 1,200 kWh a month in the summer, Ochoaw said. “Our customers depend on us to provide affordables andreliable power,” KCP&L CEO Mike Chesser said in a writtenb statement responding to the PSC approval. “This rate increasde will help us pay for environmentall investments we have already made to several ofour coal-firedf power plants.
The installation of such pollution-controlo equipment will improve air quality for our regionn and allow us to meet future federakenvironmental mandates. We recognize that this is a challenging time to ask customerzs to pay morefor electricity, and we didn’t make this decisionb lightly.” Kansas City-based GXP), KCP&L’s parent, that KCP&L had reached an agreement in principlde with the PSC to settle its pending Missouri rate Great Plains Energy ranks No. 5 on the Kansas City Busines Journal ’s list of area public companies.
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