UNDERWRITING AGREEMENT (First Mortgage Bonds)Underwriting Agreement • February 29th, 2012 • Westar Energy Inc /Ks • Electric & other services combined • New York
We (the “Managers”) are acting on behalf of the underwriter or underwriters (including ourselves) named below (such underwriter or underwriters being herein called the “Underwriters”), and we understand that Westar Energy, Inc., a Kansas corporation (the “Company”), proposes to issue and sell $250,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its First Mortgage Bonds, 4.125% Series Due 2042 (the “Offered Securities”). The Offered Securities are to be to be issued under and secured by the Mortgage and Deed of Trust, dated July 1, 1939, between the Company and The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Company, N.A., as successor to Harris Trust and Savings Bank, as trustee (the “Trustee”), as amended and supplemented by forty-one indentures supplemental thereto (such Mortgage and Deed of Trust, as heretofore amended and supplemented, the “Mortgage”) and as to be amended and supplemented by a forty-second supplemental indenture thereto, to be dated as of March 1, 2012 (the “Forty-Second Supplemental Inde
