Portfolio Designed With Customer needs in Mind

At Westar Energy, we understand that your needs are constantly changing. That’s why our energy traders emphasize flexibility in their approach to solving your energy needs. That’s also why we’ve developed a comprehensive portfolio of products and services that can be tailored to satisfy almost any customer demand.

Energy Products

Westar Energy can structure a portfolio of products to meet your needs. This portfolio can include anything from the more standard products of electrical energy and capacity, to operating reserves, asset management, scheduling services and various levels of risk management services.

Energy Services

Our services include load following, energy imbalance service, load forecasting, 24-hour scheduling service, energy management and a host of other value-added services.

Price/Term Structure

Our central geographic location, generation resources, strong interconnect relationships and experience enable us to offer competitive pricing on energy, capacity and related energy needs. 

We are ready to design customized arrangements to best meet your requirements, including: fixed price for on/off peak and round-the-clock energy, swaps, daily/monthly options, gas or power index prices, heat rate conversions and variable prices for capacity.

Tenure

Westar Energy offers hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal, annual and multi-year products. In addition, we offer non-standardized variable schedules to accommodate our customers’ needs.

Reliability Through Relationships and Resources

Westar Energy’s central location allows us to be the energy gateway to the continental United States because we can buy and sell power in all directions, quickly and efficiently. 

We’re also backed by one of the most reliable portfolios of generating assets in the country. With access to such a large power supply base, you can rely on Westar Energy to deliver the commodity you need, where you need it, when you need it.

Service Contracts

Our preferred governing contract for wholesale transactions is the Edison Electric Institute Agreement (EEI). We also have our own bi-lateral Master Power Purchase and Sales Agreement. Westar Energy is also a member of the Western Systems Power Pool (WSPP) and the Mid-Continent Energy Marketers Association (MEMA). With all of these contract options, we can provide the necessary flexibility to facilitate deal executions.

Direct Company Resources

Our generating assets, built to serve more than 674,000 electric customers in Kansas, have proven to be one of the more reliable systems in the country. With nearly 6,000 megawatts of electric generating capacity, we have the experience of serving our native load (all-time peak of 4,938 megawatts on July 19, 2006) as well as understanding the wholesale energy needs of ourselves and others. 

Our multiple transmission interconnections allow us to purchase energy for our system, as well as move power from one geographic area to another. As a result, Westar Energy places a high value on developing a mutually beneficial customer-supplier relationship.

Experience, Flexibility and Teamwork

Our team consists of individuals with varied trading backgrounds who bring a “can do” attitude to the industry. During crunch time, every available team member is on the line to serve your immediate need.

When you pick up the phone, you can expect a trader who you can trust to understand the urgency of your request, know how to best manage your needs and work diligently to exceed your expectations.