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| Company type | Public |
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| Industry | Electric utility |
| Predecessor | Company formed with mergers from Kansas Gas and Electric (KGE) & Kansas Power and Light (KPL) in 1992; Aquila (ILA) & Kansas City Power and Light (GXP) in 2008; Westar Energy (WR) and Kansas City Power and Light (GXP) in 2018. |
| Founded | 1882 |
| Headquarters | Topeka, Kansas, (admin. offices) Kansas City, Missouri, (corporate) |
Area served | Western half of Missouri and eastern half of Kansas 1.7 million customers |
Key people | David Campbell (CEO) |
| Products | Electricity generation Electric power transmission Electricity distribution |
| Revenue |  US$5.148 billion (2019) US$4.276 billion (2018)[1] |
Number of employees | 4,658 (December 31, 2023) |
| Website | evergy |
Evergy, Inc. is an American investor-owned utility (IOU) with publicly traded stock with headquarters in Topeka, Kansas, and in Kansas City, Missouri. The company was formed from a merger of Westar Energy of Topeka and Great Plains Energy of Kansas City, parent company of Kansas City Power & Light. Evergy is the largest electric company in Kansas, serving more than 1.7 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in Kansas and Missouri.[2] Its more than 40 power plants have generating capacity of 16,000 megawatt electricity in Kansas and Missouri. Service territory covers 28,130 square miles (72,900 km2) in east Kansas and west Missouri. It owns more than 10,100 miles (16,300 km) of transmission lines and about 52,000 miles (84,000 km) of distribution lines.
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- ^ "Evergy Announces 2022 Results, Declares Quarterly Dividend and Issues 2023 Guidance". Evergy. Retrieved March 2, 2023.