Large Load Power Service (LLPS) Rate Plan and Associated Tariffs (Schedule LLPS)

two-reviewer tariff approved ks-evergy-llps-25-ekme-315-tar

Record created 2026-08-19, last updated 2026-08-26. Snapshot built September 14, 2026. JSON

State

KS

Kind

tariff

Status

approved

Agency

Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC)

Utility

Evergy Kansas Metro, Inc.; Evergy Kansas South, Inc.; Evergy Kansas Central, Inc.

Docket

25-EKME-315-TAR

Effective

2025-11-06

Threshold MW

$99 Kansas pass

Contract term (years)

$99 Kansas pass

Ramp (years)

$99 Kansas pass

Minimum take %

$99 Kansas pass

Mandatory

$99 Kansas pass

Summary

$99 Kansas pass

Exit terms

$99 Kansas pass

Collateral terms

$99 Kansas pass

Curtailment terms

$99 Kansas pass

Generation requirements

$99 Kansas pass

Cost allocation

$99 Kansas pass

Locked fields

$99 Kansas pass 11 recorded fields on this record are in the state and all-states passes.

• State Corporation Commission of Kansas, Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR, Order Approving Unanimous Settlement Agreement order two-reviewer

  “On February 11, 2025, Evergy Kansas Central, Inc. and Evergy Kansas South, Inc. (EKC) and Evergy Metro, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Kansas Metro (EKM) (EKC and EKM collectively referred to as Evergy) filed an Application seeking approval of its Large Load Power Service (LLPS) Rate Plan, with a new tariffed rate offering for customers over 100 megawatts (MW) seeking to interconnect with Evergy. ... Schedule LLPS customers will take service for a minimum term of five (5) years of an optional transitional load ramp period plus twelve (12) years; ... Customers taking service under Schedule LLPS may request to reduce the Contract Capacity during the term or any extension term, with the effective date of any such reduction occurring at any time after the first five (5) years of the term by up to 25 MW or ten (10) percent of the Contract Capacity (whichever figure is lower on a MW basis) (Permissible Capacity Reduction) without charge for such reduction.”

  p.1 (caption, application background, original 100 MW threshold), p.3 (Agreement ¶¶ 8, 12, 14: applicability, term, capacity reduction)
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355
  Primary KCC order (Commissioners Andrew J. French, Chairperson; Dwight D. Keen; Annie Kuether) approving the Aug. 18, 2025 Unanimous, Comprehensive Settlement Agreement in Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR; downloaded directly (PDF, 45 pages) and text-extracted. Pages 4-41 are image-only exhibits/tariff sheets without an extractable text layer and were not used as quote sources here. Page 14 carries a bare date stamp '11/06/2025' corroborating the order date; pp.42-45 are the certificate of service, confirming party list including Evergy, CURB, KCC Staff, Sierra Club, and the Data Center Coalition (Lucas Fykes).

• State Corporation Commission of Kansas, Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR, Order Approving Unanimous Settlement Agreement -- Attachment I (Unanimous, Comprehensive Settlement Agreement, Aug. 18, 2025), ¶15 order two-reviewer

  “15. Termination of LLPS Service Agreement or Change in Schedule: In order to terminate or change rate schedules before the end of the Term or any Extension Term, the customer must provide written notice thirty-six (36) months prior to the requested date of termination or schedule change. In such circumstance, the customer will be subject to an exit fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months remaining in the Term or Extension Term, or for twelve (12) months, whichever is greater (the “Exit Fee”). An additional fee shall apply if the customer seeks to terminate with less than thirty-six (36)-months’ notice (the “Early Termination Fee”). In such case, the Early Termination Fee shall be equal to the Exit Fee plus two (2) times the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number months less than the thirty-six (36)-months’ notice required for termination. The Company will use reasonable efforts to mitigate the Exit Fee amount owed by the customer. The Company shall invoice the customer no earlier than ninety (90) days prior to the date the customer has indicated the termination will occur for any unmitigated costs of the Exit Fee and Early Termination Fee based on the calculation described above. The Exit Fee and Early Termination Fee (if applicable) shall be due in full within thirty (30) days of the date it receives an invoice from the Company for such fees.”

  PDF pp.20-21 of 45 (Attachment I, ¶15, 'Termination of LLPS Service Agreement or Change in Schedule'); these pages carry no extractable text layer in the source PDF and were OCR'd at 300dpi (pytesseract) by this collector -- artifacts preserved, none material to the quoted passage were found on re-read
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355
  TICK 2: this closes tick 1's flagged open item. This is the actual signed Settlement Agreement text (Attachment I to the KCC's Nov. 6, 2025 Order, which the Order incorporates 'in its entirety' per its own p.14 text). Pages 4-41 of this same 45-page PDF were image-only exhibits in tick 1 and were not text-extracted there; this collector re-fetched the same PDF (curl with a browser UA, HTTP 200, 2.98MB) and OCR'd pp.4-41 at 300dpi via pymupdf+pytesseract this tick. The OCR text above reproduces cleanly (smart quotes intact, no garbled characters in this passage); a companion OCR pass of p.4 (below) independently corroborates the same formula from the Order's own findings section.

• State Corporation Commission of Kansas, Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR, Order Approving Unanimous Settlement Agreement -- Order's own findings/summary of settlement terms order two-reviewer

  “To terminate or change rate schedules before the end of the Term or any Extension Term, the customer must provide written notice thirty-six (36) months prior to the requested date of termination or schedule change; [If a] customer terminates early, it is subject to an exit fee equal to the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number of months remaining or 12 months, whichever is greater (the Exit Fee). Customers seeking to terminate with less than 36 months’ notice are subject to higher termination fee -- the Exit Fee plus two (2) times the nominal value of the Minimum Monthly Bill times the number months less than the thirty-six (36) months’ notice required for termination.”

  PDF p.4 of 45 (bulleted summary of settlement terms in the Order's own body text, footnoted to 'Agreement, ¶ 15'); image-only page, OCR'd at 300dpi (pytesseract) -- OCR artifacts flagged: '36' misread as '86' in the notice-period bullet, and 'If a customer' rendered as 'Ifacustomer' (word-boundary loss); both corrected in brackets below, uncorrected OCR reproduced in this notes field for transparency: raw OCR read 'written notice thirty-(86) months' and 'Ifacustomer terminates early'
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355
  TICK 2. This is the Order's OWN summary (not the Agreement text itself, which is the source row above) -- footnotes on this page cite 'Id., ¶ 15' etc., i.e. the Commission itself is citing Attachment I ¶15, independently corroborating that source row. Bracketed correction '[If a]' applied to a two-word OCR word-boundary error only; the numeral '36' (misread by OCR as '86' due to font/scan artifacts) is corrected here to '36' because it is unambiguously confirmed as 36 by both the companion Attachment I OCR pass (source row above) and by the extractable-text portions of this same PDF (p.3, footnoted to the same Agreement).

• KCC Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR, Order Approving Unanimous Settlement Agreement -- Order's own findings, minimum monthly bill and collateral order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 275 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF p.5 of 45 (bulleted findings summary, footnoted to Agreement ¶¶19 and 24); image-only page, OCR'd at 300dpi with pytesseract
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• KCC 25-EKME-315-TAR Order -- Attachment I (Settlement Agreement, Aug. 18, 2025) ¶19, Minimum Monthly Bill and the 80 percent Minimum Demand order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 282 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF p.24 of 45 (Attachment I ¶19); image-only page in the source PDF, OCR'd at 300dpi with pymupdf+pytesseract by the verifier
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• KCC 25-EKME-315-TAR Order -- Attachment I ¶22, optional riders: Customer Capacity Rider (CCR) and Demand Response Generation Rider (DRLR) order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 575 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF pp.25-26 of 45 (Attachment I ¶22(i)-(ii)); image-only page in the source PDF, OCR'd at 300dpi with pymupdf+pytesseract by the verifier
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• KCC 25-EKME-315-TAR Order -- Attachment I ¶¶40-41, four new clean and renewable energy riders and the Clean Energy Choice Rider (CER) order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 466 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF p.32 of 45 (Attachment I ¶40 and ¶41); image-only page in the source PDF, OCR'd at 300dpi with pymupdf+pytesseract by the verifier
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• KCC 25-EKME-315-TAR Order -- Attachment I ¶51, Path to Power: service to loads greater than 25 MW, deposits, queue, four projects at a time order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 651 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF pp.35-36 of 45 (Attachment I ¶51, added General Rules and Regulations Section 2 language); image-only page in the source PDF, OCR'd at 300dpi with pymupdf+pytesseract by the verifier
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• KCC 25-EKME-315-TAR Order -- Attachment I ¶48, Schedule ILP: customers above 75 MW required to take Schedule LLPS order two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 239 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  PDF p.34 of 45 (Attachment I ¶48; ¶46 does the same for Schedule LPS); image-only page in the source PDF, OCR'd at 300dpi with pymupdf+pytesseract by the verifier
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/25-315_Settlement_Agreement.pdf?Id=f65c8223-c3d3-47a7-b83b-877f318cf355

• Testimony in Support of Settlement Agreement, Josh Frantz on behalf of the Citizens' Utility Ratepayer Board (CURB), Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR docket two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 844 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  p.11 (Agreement ¶¶ 8, 12, 14: applicability/term/capacity reduction), p.11-12 (Agreement ¶ 24: collateral)
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/S202509051438146041.pdf?Id=5d49153f-ffb3-428b-bcc6-3e94c1be085a

• Testimony in Support of Settlement Agreement, Josh Frantz on behalf of CURB, Docket No. 25-EKME-315-TAR (describing Evergy's ORIGINAL pre-settlement application terms) docket two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 998 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  p.7-8 (Company's initial LLPS proposal, as filed Feb. 11, 2025, before the Aug. 18, 2025 settlement)
  https://estar.kcc.ks.gov/estar/ViewFile.aspx/S202509051438146041.pdf?Id=5d49153f-ffb3-428b-bcc6-3e94c1be085a

• CURB News, Fourth Quarter 2025, “KCC Approves Large Load Rate Plan for Evergy” government two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 1,135 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  p.1-2
  https://curb.kansas.gov/curb_news/CURB_News_25Q4.pdf

• CURB News, Fourth Quarter 2025, “KCC Approves Large Load Rate Plan for Evergy” government two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 388 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  p.1, first paragraph after the headline
  https://curb.kansas.gov/curb_news/CURB_News_25Q4.pdf

• Kansas, Michigan regulators approve large load rules for Evergy, Consumers Energy journalism two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 1,379 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  paras. 5-9
  https://www.utilitydive.com/news/kansas-michigan-data-center-large-load-evergy-consumers/805115/

• Kansas, Michigan regulators approve large load rules for Evergy, Consumers Energy journalism two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 307 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  para. 11
  https://www.utilitydive.com/news/kansas-michigan-data-center-large-load-evergy-consumers/805115/

• New Kansas Law Opens Path for More Data Centers -- Evergy's Caisley on data centers and rates journalism two-reviewer

  $99 Kansas pass quote, 236 characters as extracted. The document, the pinpoint and the review state are open below.

  Evergy rate-impact section
  https://www.govtech.com/policy/new-kansas-law-opens-path-for-more-data-centers

• Project Pilot (De Soto)

  Johnson · under-construction · Kansas dossier