WICHITA, Kan. (KWCH) – Kansas utility regulators on Thursday approved a plan that protects residential customers from rate spikes by shifting more electricity costs to major power users.
Evergy says it wants to protect customer bills as it faces growing demand from electricity-intensive projects, such as data centers. A 100-megawatt data center uses about as much electricity as a small city, roughly 100,000 homes.
The utility company says it has many developers who use large amounts of electricity and want to connect to its power grid. The utility has built new power systems to meet that demand, but faced a potential problem if those systems weren’t used as predicted…