December 03, 2020

Statement from Evergy about the outages today.

Around 7:15 a.m., an outage occurred in Lee’s Summit affecting about 9,700 customers. The outage occurred while crews were performing maintenance. Customers were restored around 7:45 a.m.

Another outage occurred around 11 a.m., affecting about 8,100 customers in the Lee’s Summit area. Customers were restored in phases shown below, with all customers restored around 1:45 p.m. This outage was caused by equipment failure.

• 12:15 p.m. – about 1,200 customers restored
• 12:30 p.m. – about 1,150 customers restored
• 1:20 p.m. – about 4,500 customers restored
• 1:30 p.m. – about 1,200 customers restored
• 1:45 p.m. – remaining customers restored