Evergy Inc. wants to delay by five years a plan to shut down its 485-MW coal-fired Lawrence plant west of Kansas City, Kan., a proposal concerning environmental groups that want the facility closed sooner. In a 2023 annual update to its integrated resource plan filed with the Kansas Corporation Commission on June 15, Evergy also scaled back its near-term solar investment plans from 190 MW in 2024 to 150 MW in 2026. The utility spread its wind additions over a longer period of time. "Driven by tight supply chains, increasing incentives for 'on-shoring' of manufacturing, and increased demand driven by the Inflation Reduction Act, there has been an increase in the construction cost for new renewable generation," Evergy wrote in its integrated resource plan.