By Barb Shelly, Kansas City Star editorial board
The jaw-dropping quote of the day comes courtesy of Steve Miller, spokesman for Sunflower Electric Power Corp., talking to The Star's David Klepper about this week's anticipated coal plant showdown.
"We're not Enron," Miller said. "We're just a bunch of farmers...trying to keep the lights on out here in western Kansas."
From the coop's own website: "Organized in 1957, Sunflower is a consumer-owned, nonprofit corporation operated cooperatively by six rural electric distribution cooperatives that serve people located in 34 western Kansas counties. Sunflower provides wholesale power generated by six power plants to its Member cooperatives. That power is delivered across a high voltage transmission network consisting of 27 substations and more than 1,150 miles of 69-kV, 115-kV, and 345-kV line."
And, lest we forget, the lion's share of the power generated by the two proposed coal-fired plants in Holcomb, Kan., is destined to be sold to Colorado.