Westar Energy Retail Rate Case and Earnings Update
           

<p>TOPEKA, KS--(Marketwire - October 2, 2008) -  Westar Energy, Inc. (<exchange name="NYSE">NYSE</exchange>: <ticker name="WR">WR</ticker>) today announced
that, in conjunction with an investor conference call being held today at
10 a.m. Eastern (9 a.m. Central), the Company has posted on its Web site a
presentation summarizing positions taken in testimony filed by the Kansas
Corporation Commission Staff and other interveners earlier this week
related to the Company's retail rate case.  The presentation was also
furnished today with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an exhibit
to a Current Report on Form 8-K.

           

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