JOPLIN — A Joplin-based utility has announced an agreement with Kansas regulators that could remove a final hurdle to the utility’s planned $2.4 billion merger with a Canadian company.
Empire District Electric Co. announced last week that it had reached an agreement with the staff of the Kansas Corporation Commission. The KCC, however, still has to formally rule on Empire Electric’s proposed merger with Oakville, Ontario-based Algonquin Power and Utilities Corp., The Joplin Globe reported (