SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
Current Report
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): August 26, 2002
I.R.S. Employer
Commission Registrant, State of Incorporation, Identification
File Number Address and Telephone Number Number
0-33207 GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INCORPORATED 43-1916803
(A Missouri Corporation)
1201 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64106
(816) 556-2200
NOT APPLICABLE
(Former name or former address,
if changed since last report)
1-707 KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY 44-0308720
(A Missouri Corporation)
1201 Walnut Street
Kansas City, Missouri 64106
(816) 556-2200
NOT APPLICABLE
(Former name or former address,
if changed since last report)
Great Plains Energy Incorporated (Great Plains Energy) and Kansas
City Power & Light Company (KCP&L) (the Registrants) are
separately filing this combined Report on Form 8-K to reflect in
historical December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999 segment information
the new reportable segments reported in the Registrants' combined
Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended June 30, 2002.
Information contained herein relating to an individual Registrant
is filed by such registrant on its own behalf. Each Registrant
makes representations only as to information relating to itself.
The Registrants' combined 2001 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as
amended by KCP&L on Form 10-K/A, is referred to in this filing as
the "amended 2001 Annual Report".
ITEM 5. OTHER EVENTS
During the second quarter of 2002, Great Plains Energy's
management revised its corporate business strategy to focus on
the following three primary business segments: (1) KCP&L, an
integrated electric utility which generates, transmits and
distributes electricity; (2) Strategic Energy, L.L.C., which
earns a management fee on the direct delivery to retail customers
under long-term contracts of wholesale power purchased under long-
term contracts while operating in several deregulated electricity
markets; and (3) KLT Gas Inc., which acquires and develops early
stage coal bed methane properties. This revision in the
corporate business strategy resulted in a change in the
Registrants' internal reporting. In order to reflect this
revision to the Registrants' corporate business strategy, Note 9
to the December 31, 2001, 2000 and 1999 financial statements
contained in the amended 2001 Annual Report has been revised to
present the Registrants' reformatted segment information.
Exhibit 99 to this Report on Form 8-K includes Great Plains
Energy's and KCP&L's financial statements for the years ended
December 31, 2001, 2000, and 1999 with the revised Note 9
"Segment and Related Information", as discussed above. There are
no other required changes to the financial statements filed in
the Exhibit 99 to this Report on Form 8-K.
Exhibit 99 to this Report on Form 8-K also includes a glossary of
terms, the Reports of Independent Accountants on Great Plains
Energy and Subsidiaries' and KCP&L and Subsidiaries' financial
statements for the periods presented and the Independent
Auditors' Report for DTI Holdings, Inc. and subsidiaries (Debtors-
in-Possession).
ITEM 7. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND EXHIBITS
Great Plains Energy Incorporated and Kansas City Power & Light
Company
Exhibit
No.
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99 Consolidated Financial Statements of Great Plains
Energy Incorporated and Kansas City Power & Light
Company
Great Plains Energy Incorporated
Exhibit
No.
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23.1.a. Consent of Independent Accountants -
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.1.b. Consent of Independent Accountants - Deloitte & Touche
LLP
99.1.a. Certification of CEO and CFO Pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Kansas City Power & Light Company
Exhibit
No.
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23.2.a. Consent of Independent Accountants -
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
99.2.b. Certification of CEO and CFO Pursuant to 18 U.S.C.
Section 1350, As Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of
the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on
its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INCORPORATED
/s/Jeanie Sell Latz
Jeanie Sell Latz
Executive Vice President-Corporate
and Shared Services and Secretary
KANSAS CITY POWER & LIGHT COMPANY
/s/Jeanie Sell Latz
Jeanie Sell Latz
Secretary
Date: August 26, 2002