Northwest Kansas will have new businesses and new economies to support what will be a growing population. The result will be that northwest Kansas will be a safer and a better place to raise families in the next 25 years. Our quality of life advantage will continue to expand. Investment flexibility will be the key to the expansion of business and the ongoing productivity of agriculture in northwest Kansas. The last that will positively effect northwest Kansas is our ability to have a consistent source of electricity.
Micropower generation can support northwest Kansas because of our low population density.
Areas of the country that have high population density are going to continue to struggle with the availability of electrical resources. Companies and businesses are going to seek location in parts of the country that can support their electric needs without blackouts or brownouts being a daily phenomenon. These five future trends are going to change the face of northwest Kansas and have the potential of dramatically altering the Kansas Statistical Abstract predictions. It is going to take creative leadership and risk takers if our future is going to be positive. The sooner the state realizes that its future depends upon making western Kansas productive over the next century, the sooner we can begin the important task at hand.