A standing-room-only crowd attended the heavyweight political fight Friday between electric industry coalitions energized by a House bill reasserting the right of Kansas’ transmission owners to have first crack at building, owning and operating new local power lines.
The tag-team rumble on House Bill 2623 featured, in one corner, bill advocates Westar Energy, Sunflower Electric Power Corp. and Midwest Energy. In the other corner stood skeptics Kansas City Power & Light, Kansas Electric Power Cooperative and LS Power Development.