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Kansas
Missouri
Property owners
Evergy’s real estate team acquires easements necessary for electrical transmission line projects. The team is committed to open, transparent and frequent communications with property owners.
When Evergy rebuilds an existing transmission line or constructs a new transmission line, it may be necessary to acquire easements. An Evergy project representative will contact property owners affected.
The project representative will share information regarding the project. During the acquisition process, the project representative will work with property owners, discuss proposed easement locations, rights, compensation, construction requirements, potential access routes, land restoration, post-construction and damage settlements. We will work with landowners throughout the siting, design and construction process to minimize impacts to their properties. It is our goal to reach negotiated agreements with all landowners.
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History
Evergy is committed to delivering clean, safe, reliable sources of energy today and well into the future. So we’re embracing alternative energy sources to generate more power with less impact to our environment and adopting new technologies that let our customers manage their energy use in ways that work for them.
Delivering power to Evergy’s 1.6 million customers across Kansas and Missouri uses 10,200 miles of transmission lines, 60,400 miles of distribution lines and nearly 875 substations.
Evergy’s transmission system has built out as the communities we serve grew. The communities in our service area continue to grow, which means we need to continue to upgrade our infrastructure to meet their current and future needs. We have also built additional transmission lines into communities because the redundancy helps ensure reliability. The expansion of renewable energy also requires infrastructure upgrades and investment.
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Overview Timeline
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Arkansas City
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Canal from the intersection of South D St. and East Harrison St. to the intersection of South 5th St. and West 5th Ave.
De Soto
- 345kV Transmission Line Upgrade: Waverly Substation (95th Street and Waverly Road) to Clearview Substation (a new build at 95th Street and Sunflower Road).
El Dorado
- 69 kV Transmission Line Upgrade: Skelly Substation (located at Conner Ave. and Douglas Rd.) to Structure 189 (located nearly half a mile north of Sixth Ave. and Orchard St.)
Lawrence
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Free State Substation (located near Kasold Drive and Bob Billings Pkwy.)
Leawood
Manhattan
- New 115 kV Transmission Line: North Manhattan, Zion, Old Post and South Alma Substations
Olathe
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Timberlane, Southtown, Bonita and Spring Hill Substations
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Moonlight Substation (located at South Hedge Lane and West Sante Fe Street, to North Hedge Lane and West 127th Street)
- Transmission Line Upgrade: South Woodland Street and West 108 Terrace
Pittsburg
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Hudson Substation (located at 1900 South Olive) to the new South Pittsburg Switching Station
Salina
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Smoky Hill Substation (located at Ninth Street and East Schilling Road) to Southgate Substation (located one-fourth mile east of South Ohio Street and East Wayne Avenue)
Topeka
- 115 kV Transmission Line Upgrade: Heartland Substation (located at SW 77th St. and SW Topeka Blvd.) to near SE 81st and SE Croco Rd.
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Second and Madison substation (located at Second and Madison streets) to Deer Creek substation (located near Second Street and Kellam Avenue) and Deer Creek substation to the Sixth and Golden substation (located at Sixth and Golden avenues)
Wichita
- Transmission Line Upgrade: 17th Street, Mossman St. and the Wichita State University campus
Parsons
Fayetteville
- Transmission Line Upgrade: 13 Hwy in Fayetteville, MO
Kansas City
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161kV Transmission Cable and Infrastructure Update:
Project 1 is located near Ewing & Muriel Kauffman Memorial Garden and Frank A. Theis Park
Project 2 is located on Brush Creek Trail near Cleaver Blvd and Concord Court - Transmission Line Upgrade:
Project 1 is located from Nashua to Shoal Creek
Project 2 is located from Shoal Creek to Gladstone
Lee's Summit
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Prairie Lee - Strother Road Junction - Western Electric
Pleasant Hill-Warrensburg
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Spanning Pleasant Hill, MO and over into Warrensburg, MO
Raytown
- Substation Upgrades: Expansion near East 59th Street and Woodson Road
Riverside
- Transmission Line Upgrade: 17th St and Emporia over to 11th St and Jefferson
St. Joseph
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Cook Rd. in St. Joseph, MO
Trenton
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Trenton, MO
Winchester
- Transmission Line Upgrade
Project 1: Southtown and Loma Vista
Project 2: Leeds
Orrick-Richmond
- Transmission Line Upgrade: Orrick to Richmond, MO
Positive impacts...
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