Kansas utility Evergy and the BNSF Railway are in a fight over what the utility contends was the failure of the railway to deliver coal to its power plants in Kansas and Missouri three years ago.
Their fight has end up before the Surface Transportation Board where Evergy is seeking more than $22.2 million in damages. The utility contends BNSF refused to deliver enough coal from the Powder River Basin of Wyoming to its power plants in the two states in 2022.
Evergy is seeking more than $22.2 million in damages from BNSF Railway for what the utility claims is the railroad’s refusal to deliver enough Powder River Basin coal to power plants in Missouri and Kansas in 2022.
The Kansas-based utility also claimed it was forced to conserve coal at its Lawrence Energy Center in Lawrence, Kansas and another in Weston, Missouri because of the lack of coal. Evergy charged that BNSF’s problems arose because it did not have enough locomotives in service and failed to have adequate train crew and mechanical staffing on hand.
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