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SEC FORM 3 SEC Form 3
FORM 3 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

INITIAL STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
 
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1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
BUSSER STEVEN P

(Last) (First) (Middle)
C/O GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INCORPORATED
1200 MAIN STREET

(Street)
KANSAS CITY MO 64105

(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Date of Event Requiring Statement (Month/Day/Year)
09/01/2014
3. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
GREAT PLAINS ENERGY INC [ GXP ]
4. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
Director 10% Owner
X Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
VP-Bus. Planning & Controller
5. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 4) 2. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned (Instr. 4) 3. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 4. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Table II - Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 2. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year) 3. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 4) 4. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 5. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 5) 6. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 5)
Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
No securities are beneficially owned.
Executed on behalf of Steven P. Busser by Jaileah X. Huddleston, attorney-in-fact 09/03/2014
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
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                                                                    Exhibit 24.0

                               POWER OF ATTORNEY

     Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and
appoints each of Ellen E. Fairchild and Jaileah X. Huddleston, and any
individual who hereafter holds the offices of Secretary or Assistant Secretary
of Great Plains Energy Incorporated (the "Company"), or any of them signing
singly, and with full power of substitution, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

     (1)     prepare, execute in the undersigned's name and on the
undersigned's behalf, and submit to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
(the "SEC") a Form ID, including amendments thereto, and any other documents
necessary or appropriate to obtain codes and passwords enabling the undersigned
to make electronic filings with the SEC of reports required by Section 16(a)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended or any rule or regulation
of the SEC;

     (2)     execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the
undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of the Company, Forms 3,
4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended and the rules thereunder;

     (3)     do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the
undersigned which may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any
such Form 3, 4, or 5, complete and execute any amendment or amendments thereto,
and timely file such form with the SEC and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and

     (4)     take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with
the foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being
understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of
the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and
shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in
such attorney-in-fact's discretion.

     The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and
powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned
might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or
such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause
to be done by virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to
comply with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

     This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the
undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the Company,
unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to
be executed as of this 7th day of August, 2014.

                                        /s/ Steven P. Busser
                                        Steven P. Busser

STATE OF TEXAS     )
                   ) ss.
COUNTY OF EL PASO  )

     On this 7th day of August, in the year 2014, before me, Diana Holguin, a
Notary Public in and for said state, personally appeared Steven P. Busser,
known to me to be the person who executed the within Power of Attorney, and
acknowledged to me that he executed the same for the purposes therein stated.

             DIANA HOLGUIN              /s/ Diana Holguin
     Notary Public, State of Texas      Notary Public
         My Commission Expires
             June 16, 2015









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