Utility Scale Solar & Storage Event Announced Opportunity for Kansans to learn about clean energy technology advancements Battery storage and utility-scale solar are the focus of an educational webinar hosted by the Kansas Clean Energy Business Council on...
Yesterday during their regular business meeting, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) unanimously voted to require Evergy to refund solar customers for demand charges, stating in the order “upon further review of the legal authority cited by the Solar...
LAST CHANCE to take action against Evergy's unfair rate proposals! Submit a Public Comment Opposing Evergy’s $35 Minimum Bill and Grid Access Fee As our battle over solar equity continues with the state's largest utility, we are now combatting their false...
Supreme Court Reminder! This week, the Kansas Supreme Court will review whether the rate design for distributed generation class (demand charges) discriminates against renewable energy users in violation of both Kansas state law and federal law. Everyone is...
Evergy's $35 minimum bill would raise rates on nearly 200,000 Kansans Submit a Public Comment Opposing Evergy’s $35 Minimum Bill! On November 5th, nearly 50 Kansans made their voices heard at the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) hearing...
In Power Trip, filmmaker Jonathan Scott travels the United States confronting those at the root of the issue and meets the everyday citizens fighting against a deeply entrenched, powerful system that’s waging war against the solar industry—and against the rights of...
What Happened? On November 5th, the Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC) held a virtual public hearing to get citizen input on Evergy's new rate proposal to either add $3 per kilowatt grid access fee to solar energy users, or to have a $35 minimum bill for all...
Evergy is proposing a new electricity rate for residential solar customers, that adds a monthly grid access fee of $3.00 per kW of solar. If this isn't acceptable to the Commission, Evergy’s alternative proposal is a minimum bill of $35 for all...
Save Kansas Solar - Submit a Public Comment Opposing Evergy’s Grid Access Fees! DOCKET NO. 18-WSEE-328-RTS Evergy is proposing a new rate design for residential solar customers, the rate design includes a monthly residential grid access fee of $3.00 per...
Kansas Solar gets Big Win - Sort of Kansas residents and solar businesses have faced an uphill battle for solar access. For more than six years, the Climate + Energy Project has been fighting for fair policies for ratepayers and solar businesses at the Kansas...
Sending out a big high-five for all the great work in submitting public comments to FERC in opposition to the NERA petition to kill net metering. Three hundred and twenty Kansans filed comments with 57,000 filed nationwide! The comments were overwhelmingly opposed to...
The public comment deadline on the petition to give federal regulators the power to block rooftop solar owners from earning fair credit for the surplus electricity their solar panels produce is fast approaching! The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission needs to hear...