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Related Party Transactions and Relationships
12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2015
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Related Party Transactions and Relationships
17. RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
KCP&L employees manage GMO's business and operate its facilities at cost, including GMO's 18% ownership interest in KCP&L's Iatan Nos. 1 and 2.  The operating expenses and capital costs billed from KCP&L to GMO were $183.6 million for 2015, $173.9 million for 2014 and $223.6 million for 2013. Additionally, KCP&L and GMO engage in wholesale electricity transactions with each other.  KCP&L's net wholesale sales to GMO were $0.2 million, $12.7 million and $25.6 million in 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
KCP&L and GMO are also authorized to participate in the Great Plains Energy money pool, an internal financing arrangement in which funds may be lent on a short-term basis to KCP&L and GMO from Great Plains Energy and between KCP&L and GMO. At December 31, 2014, KCP&L had a money pool payable to GMO of $12.6 million.
The following table summarizes KCP&L's related party net receivables.
 
December 31
 
 
2015
 
 
 
2014
 
 
 
(millions)
 
Net receivable from GMO
 
$
50.0

 
 
 
$
38.2

 
Net receivable from Great Plains Energy
 
15.8

 
 
 
18.0