Customers of Evergy are being notified that the investor owned utility company wants to build a new power plant and a battery energy storage facility.
Notices that Evergy e-mailed and snail-mailed to customers says there will be three public hearings before the Missouri Public Service Commission.
The power plant, fueled by natural gas, would be built southeast of St. Joseph between Gower and Agency.
The battery storage facility would be built in Jasper County next to a solar plant that Evergy received state permission to start building last July.
Click HERE to read and download Evergy's application to the Missouri Public Service Commission.
One of the three public hearings will be held in-person. That is scheduled for the evening of November 16th at Missouri Western State University's Blum building.
That will be followed by two virtual public hearings on November 17th.