Scott Heidtbrink, Senior Vice President, Supply, KCP&L

Mr. Heidtbrink is a 23-year energy-industry veteran who is responsible for KCP&L’s power generation facilities. He previously served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Services at KCP&L with responsibility for IT, Procurement, Resource Protection and Facilities. Prior to that he served as Vice President, Power Generation and Energy Resources of Aquila's regulated gas and electric operations. He was responsible for Aquila's power generation plants in Missouri and Colorado and for the company's energy resources, including integrated resource planning, generation dispatch, off-system sales, coal procurement, and asset management for the company's minority ownership positions in other coal-fired plants.

He joined Aquila in 1987 as a field engineer at the company's Lee's Summit, Missouri, service center and has held gas and electric utility operations engineering and field and customer operations management positions, including state president and general manager - Kansas from 1994 to 1997; Vice President network management/engineering, 1998 to 2000; Vice President, Aquila Gas Operations, 2001; and Vice President, Kansas/Colorado Gas, 2002 to 2004. He also led the development of Six Sigma into Aquila's utility operations.

Mr. Heidtbrink received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Kansas State University and is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt.