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Form 4

FORM 4		UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION Washington, DC 20549 STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(f) of the Investment Company Act of 1940	OMB APPROVAL OMB Number: 3235-0287 Expires: January 31, 2005 Estimated average burden hours per response...0.5
( )	Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).

(Print or Type Responses)

1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*

TALBOTT,         Linda      H.
________________________________
         (Last)                (First)         (Middle)

411 West 60^th Street
________________________________
                         (Street)

Kansas City,                MO              64113
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             (City                        (State)        (Zip)

2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol

Great Plains Energy Incorporated (GXP)

4. Statement for
Month/Day/
Year

01-21-2003

6. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)

X Director ___ 10% Owner

Officer (give title below) ___ Other (specify below)

_______________________________________________________________

3. I.R.S. Identification Number of
Reporting Person, if an entity
(Voluntary)

5 If Amendment,
   Date of
   Original
   (Month/Day/
   Year

7. 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 ¾ Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned

1. Title of Security
(Instr. 3)

2. Transaction
    Date
    (Month/Day/
    Year)

2A. Deemed
      Execution
      Date
      (Month/
     Day/Year)

3. Transaction
Code
(Instr.8)

4. Securities Acquired (A)
or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)

5. Amount of Securities
    Beneficially Owned at
    End of Month
      (Instr. 3 and 4)

6. Ownership
    Form: Direct
    (D) or
    Indirect (I)
    (Instr. 4)

7. Nature of
    Indirect
    Beneficial
    Ownership
    (Instr. 4)

Code

Amount

(A) or
(D)

Price

Common Stock(1)

01-21-2003

01-23-2003

654

$22.948

Common Stock(2)

(2)

126

(2)

7,362

Shares acquired with optional cash payment through participation in the Company's Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan.
Shares acquired at various times and prices from automatic reinvestment of quarterly dividends through participation in the Company's Dividend Reinvestment and Direct Stock Purchase Plan during 2002.

FORM 4 (continued)

Table II ` Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities

1. Title of
    Derivative
    Security
    (Instr. 3)

2. Conversion
    or Exercise
    Price of
    Derivative
    Security

3. Transaction
    Date
    (Month/Day/
    Year)

3A. Deemed
      Execution
      Date, if any
       (Month/
      Day/Year)

4. Transaction
Code
(Instr.8)

5. Number of
    Derivative
    Securities
    Acquired (A)
    or Disposed
    of (D)
    (Instr. 3, 4
    and 5)

6. Date Exercisable
and Expiration Date
(Month/Day/Year)

7. Title and Amount of
Underlying Securities
(Instr. 3 and 4)

8. Price of
    Derivative
    Security
    (Instr. 5)

9. Number of
    Derivative
    Securities
    Beneficially
    Owned at
    End of
    Month
    (Instr. 4)

10. Ownership
      Form of
      Derivative
      Securities
      Beneficially
      Owned at
      End of
      Month
      (Instr. 4)

11. Nature of
      Indirect
      Beneficial
      Ownership
      (Instr. 4)

Code

(A)

(D)

Date
Exercisable

Expiration
Date

Title

Amount or
Number of
Shares

Explanation of Responses:

Executed on behalf of Linda H. Talbott by Jeanie Sell Latz, Attorney-in-Fact (see Attached Exhibit A)


		/s/Jeanie Sell Latz		January 24, 2003

		**Signature of Reporting Person	Date

Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
*	If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
**	Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations.
	See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note:	File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.

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Exhibit A

POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

That the undersigned, a Director of Great Plains Energy Incorporated, a Missouri corporation, does hereby constitute and appoint Bernard J. Beaudoin, Jeanie S. Latz or Mark G. English, his true and lawful attorney and agent, with full power and authority to execute in the name and on behalf of the undersigned director a Report on Form 4 or Form 5 and all amendments thereto; hereby granting unto such attorney and agent full power of substitution and revocation in the premises; and hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney and agent may do or cause to be done by virtue of these presents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this 24^th day of January 2003.

/s/Linda H. Talbott

Linda H. Talbott

STATE OF MISSOURI	)
	)	ss
COUNTY OF JACKSON	)

On this 24^th day of January 2003, before me the undersigned, a Notary Public, personally appeared Linda H. Talbott, to be known to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and who, being by me first duly sworn, acknowledged that he executed the same as his free act and deed.

IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed my official seal the day and year last above written.

/s/Jacquetta L. Hartman

Notary Public

Ray County,
Missouri

My Commission Expires:
April 8, 2004