Kansas City Power & Light Moves Toward Construction of a New 800-900 MW Coal-Fired Unit

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Researched by Industrialinfo.com (Industrial Information Resources, Incorporated; Houston, Texas). Kansas City Power & Light Company (KCP&L), a subsidiary of Great Plains Energy (NYSE:GXP) (Kansas City, Missouri), has taken another step towards building a large coal-fired unit adjacent to the 726-megawatt (MW) coal-fired Iatan Power Station Unit 1 in Weston, Platte County, Missouri. This project has been considered for development in several ways by Great Plains Energy and is referred to as Weston Bend I or Iatan II. Originally, KCP&L proposed the project as an addition to the existing plant. When electric utility deregulation arrived, the project was handed off to a deregulated arm of Great Plans Energy, Great Plains Power. Great Plains then moved it back to the regulated KCP&L, since, due to financial constraints, it was not economical to build as a merchant power plant.

KCP&L has come to an agreement with the staff of Missouri Public Service Commission (MPSC) and Missouri Office of Public Counsel assuring the utility that it will be able to recover the cost of building this $1.3 billion project with rate increases taking effect in 2007. KCP&L is also working with the State of Kansas for the same assurances, since the unit will provide for customers in both Kansas and Missouri.

The coal-fired unit addition will mean about a 1,000 temporary jobs during the four- year construction period and 50-100 permanent jobs, once the unit is completed. KCP&L will take 500 MW of the 800-900 MW unit and have partners for the balance of the output. Interested parties include: Aquila Incorporated (NYSE:ILA) (Kansas City Missouri), Empire District Electric Company (NYSE:EDE) (Joplin, Missouri), and Independence Power & Light Department (Independence, Missouri).

The unit design calls for installation of one pulverized opposed-wall, dry-bottom boiler combusting low sulfur Wyoming subbituminous coal and oil (rated 8,100 mmBtu/hr) to supply steam to an 800-900 MW steam turbine/generator. The boiler will have NOx (nitrogen oxides) controls (Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR), Low NOx Burners); Hg (mercury) controls; SO2 (sulfur dioxide) controls (FGD (Flue Gas Desulphurization) Scrubber), particulate (PM10) controls: baghouses and/or electrostatic precipitators (ESP) plus controls for carbon oxides (CO) and volatile organic chemicals.

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