Client: Sierra Club
Authors: Tyler Comings and Joshua Castigliego
September 2021
Senior Researcher Tyler Comings and Researcher Joshua Castigliego co-authored comments with Sierra Club on Evergy Missouri's Integrated Resource Plan (IRP). AEC found several deficiencies in the utility's plan including: 1) the lack of optimization modeling, 2) limited consideration of battery storage, 3) failure to model power purchase agreements (PPAs), and 4) failure to consider other coal retirement portfolios (among others).