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Evergy tells committee tariff, long contracts and collateral protect customers from data‑center load
Summary
Evergy told the committee its large-load power service (LLPS) tariff — approved by the Kansas Corporation Commission — charges premiums for demand, requires 17-year contracts and substantial collateral, and is designed to limit rate impacts from data-center growth while enabling economic development.
Evergy representatives told the Committee on Commerce, Labor and Economic Development that the company has taken steps to protect existing customers from the potential rate effects of large new data-center loads. Chuck, an Evergy representative, described a recently approved large-load power service (LLPS) tariff and said it was specifically designed to limit the kind of rate spikes seen in some Eastern U.S. markets.
Chuck explained the LLPS has multiple features intended to shift the risks of new, very large loads onto the new customers. He described a demand-charge premium that applies to data centers and other large-load users (he characterized part of the premium as "almost 30%" in certain components), a requirement that…
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