Exhibit 99.1

       Statement Under Oath of Principal Executive Officer
       and Principal Financial Officer Regarding Facts and
         Circumstances Relating to Exchange Act Filings

I, Bernard J. Beaudoin, Chairman of the Board, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Great Plains Energy Incorporated,
state and attest that:

     1.   To the best of my knowledge, based upon a review of the
          covered reports of Great Plains Energy Incorporated, and, except
          as corrected or supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

          - no covered report contained an untrue statement of a
            material fact as of the end of the period covered by such report
            (or in the case of a report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy
            materials, as of the date on which it was filed); and

          - no covered report omitted to state a material fact necessary
            to make the statements in the covered report, in light of the
            circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of
            the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case of a
            report on Form 8-K or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
            on which it was filed).

     2.   I have reviewed the contents of this statement with the
          Company's audit committee.

     3.   In this statement under oath, each of the following, if
          filed on or before the date of this statement, is a "covered
          report":

          - Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 of
            Great Plains Energy Incorporated;

          - all reports on Form 10-Q, all reports on Form 8-K and all
            definitive proxy materials of Great Plains Energy Incorporated
            filed with the Commission subsequent to the filing of the Form
            10-K identified above; and

          - any amendments to any of the foregoing.



      /s/Bernard J. Beaudoin       Subscribed and sworn to
      Bernard J. Beaudoin          before me this 12th day of
	                           August, 2002
      August 12, 2002
                                   /s/Jacquetta L. Hartman
                                   Notary Public

                                   My Commission Expires:  April 8, 2004