Ingram's May 2024

Kansas City BPU: The Power of Community

Electric Service The BPU has been providing electric service to homes and residences in our community since 1912. We are proud to offer dependable and reliable electric service to every household in our community at some of the lowest rates in the nation. We’re committed to the neighborhoods that we serve and work hard to maintain your satisfaction through stable and reliable service. Today, BPU electric plants and delivery systems serve 67,000 custom ers over 127.5 square miles within the Kansas City, Kansas, area. BPU is com mitted to a diverse power-generating mix, utilizing wind, hydro, and landfill gas technology as part of its renewable energy portfolio. The utility’s electrical system has been recognized as one of the coun try’s most reliable and safe electric utilities, one of only 109 of the more than 2,000 public utility companies in the nation to receive the Reliable Public Power Provider award from the American Public Power Association. Water Service The BPU has been providing depend able, quality water service to the homes and residences in our community since 1909. Today, BPU serves 53,000 water customers which includes Kansas City, Kansas, Edwardsville, southern Leaven worth County, parts of Bonner Springs and a small section of Johnson County. The state-of-the-art water system includes a water treatment facility at Nearman, four pump stations, 1,004

For more than 100 years, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) has provided safe, dependable water and electric services across Kansas City, Kansas. As a non-profit public utility, we are fully committed to serving our cus tomers and the community as a whole. It’s more than simply providing a ser vice: It’s a commitment to a better quality of life. That’s why BPU has been recognized as one of the top public utilities in the country. That’s the Power of Community. We serve more than 67,000 electric utility customers and 53,000 water customers over a broad sweep of the Wyandotte County region: More than 130 square miles, in all.

miles of water pipes, and the nation’s two largest horizontal collector wells to gather water from deep below the Missouri River. BPU has the capacity to pump 72 million gallons of water a day (MGD) to its customers, and stores 31 million gallons of water in reser voirs and elevated tanks. In addition, BPU services and maintains 6,242 fire hydrants throughout the community. BPU is a recipient of the “Directors Award of Recognition” from the Part nership for Safe Water, a collaborative effort between water utilities and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Association of State Drinking Water Administrators, and industry associa tions. The program was established to provide safe, high-quality drinking water to the public that exceeds certain EPA regulations. Moreover, BPU’s water di vision has also received the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies’ “Gold Award” for Competitiveness Achieve ment for initiatives in the areas of plant, maintenance, engineering, finance and employee development. Thousands of utilities apply, and only seven were selected the same year as BPU. tric power and methane gas harvesting from landfills, BPU’s renewable energy efforts are actively benefiting the com munity. In fact, 48 percent of the energy BPU provides to Wyandotte County is from renewable resources—that’s three times greater than the Kansas Renew able Energy Standard goal. With the Power of Community, BPU is working to ensure a greener future for us all. l A Sustainable Future From wind and solar to hydroelec

Address: 540 Minnesota Ave., Kansas City, KS 66101

Phone: 913.573.9000

Website: www.bpu.com

Product or Service: Municipal water-electric utility

No. of Employees: 600

Head of Company: Bill Johnson, General Manager

Year Founded: 1909

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