Kansas City Power & Light (KCP&L) began engaging stakeholders in 2003 to develop consensus on a regional energy plan designed to balance customers' desire for low electricity costs with system reliability needs and environmental requirements. The culmination of that plan was the completion of latan 2, which entered service in August 2010. For executing an innovative energy plan that reduced overall fleet emissions, ensuring the region's future electricity supply, and completing an approximately $2 billion project in time for the summer 2010 peak load by using innovative contracting and project controls, KCP&L's latan 2 is awarded POWER's 2011 Plant of the Year Award.