Planned power outages across KC metro could last through early afternoon, Evergy says
Anna Spoerre and Robert A. Cronkleton, The Kansas City Star
Feb. 16—Update: As of 10:15 a.m. Tuesday, the order for controlled power outages was suspended. Evergy said power should be back online shortly.
Temporary emergency power outages could continue through Tuesday afternoon in Kansas City in an attempt to avoid a "catastrophic" uncontrolled blackout that could leave people without power for hours, if not longer, Evergy officials said during a briefing Tuesday morning.
Southwest Power Pool, which manages the electrical grid across 17 central and western United States, including the Kansas City area, declared an energy emergency about 6:15 a.m. Tuesday saying that system-wide power generating capacity had dropped below the demand for power due to extremely low temperatures and inadequate supplies of natural gas.