Power And Light Co.

Kansas City Power and Light Company Kansas City Power and Light Company Defunct electric utility company that served the Kansas City metropolitan area "Kansas City Power & Light" redirects here. For other uses, see Kansas City Power & Light (disambiguation). Kansas City Power and Light Company was an electric utility company serving the Kansas City metropolitan area. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of Great Plains Energy of which it was the biggest component. The company traces its roots to November 1881 when Joseph S. Chick obtained the exclusive rights to use the Thompson-Houston arc lighting system in the counties of Jackson, Missouri, and Wyandotte, Kansas, for $4,000. The following month, the initial franchise to establish an electric works in…

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