Midwest Energy solar export rate
What Midwest Energy pays for power exported from rooftop solar in Kansas, with the source and the date it was checked.
No single rate — formula based
Net metering: full retail value for kWh generated and used in the same month; excess at the end of the billing period reverts to Midwest Energy. Parallel generation: the Company's avoided cost of purchased energy, using the locational marginal price corresponding to when energy was delivered.
Midwest Energy · Kansas
Midwest offers both a KCC-approved net-metering option and a parallel-generation arrangement; its page lists a 2025 average parallel-generation buyback rate of 3.205 cents/kWh, but that historical average is not a universal current tariff rate.
Source: mwenergy.com · mwenergy.com
Full Midwest Energy detail →Kansas rules that apply to Midwest Energy
The state framework sets the default. Where Midwest Energy pays something different, the utility tariff governs and is what the card above reports.
| Compensation mechanism | Kansas permits either net metering or parallel generation. Net metering nets delivered and exported energy during the billing period; for post-July 1, 2014 systems, remaining net excess generation is credited at at least 100% of the utility's monthly system average cost of energy per kWh. Parallel generation uses separate meters and an avoided-cost-based purchase rate. |
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| Export rate | There is no single statewide dollar rate. For systems operating under an interconnect agreement on or after July 1, 2014, monthly net excess generation is credited at no less than 100% of the utility's monthly system average cost of energy per kWh; parallel-generation renewable systems of 200 kW or less receive no less than 150% of avoided cost. |
| Rate effective | The current post-July 1, 2014 net-excess-generation credit rule is in K.S.A. 66-1266(b); the statute history identifies the 2024 amendment as L. 2024, ch. 60, § 7, effective July 1. |
| Credit rollover | For systems operating before July 1, 2014, net excess generation carries forward month to month at a one-to-one kWh ratio. For systems operating on or after July 1, 2014, excess generation is credited at the statutory monthly system-average-cost rate, with any net credit under an optional time-varying rate applied to the next billing period. |
| Credit expiration | For pre-July 1, 2014 systems, any net-metering credit remaining on March 31 of each year expires. The reviewed statute does not state an annual expiration date for the post-July 1, 2014 monthly system-average-cost credit; it is credited at the end of each billing period. |
| Annual true-up | March 31 annually for pre-July 1, 2014 net-metering systems; the statute says any remaining credit expires on that date. |
| Aggregate program cap | For investor-owned utilities, the aggregate net-metering capacity limit is 4% of the utility's peak demand during the previous year beginning July 1, 2026; it rises to 5% of historic highest annual peak demand since 2014 beginning July 1, 2027 and thereafter. |
| Program status | The investor-owned-utility net-metering program is open on a first-come, first-served basis until the statutory aggregate capacity limit is reached; Kansas cooperatives and municipal providers are not mandated by statute to offer net metering. |
| Grandfathering | Yes. Systems operating under an interconnect agreement before July 1, 2014 retain one-to-one monthly netting and transferable agreements/credits through January 1, 2030; the statute also preserves qualifying additions to a pre-2014 installation under the older treatment. |
| Regulator | Kansas Corporation Commission (KCC), which adopted K.A.R. 82-17-1 through 82-17-5 to implement the statutory net-metering standards and regulates the retail rates of the affected investor-owned utilities. |
| Governing rule | K.S.A. 66-1263 through 66-1271 (Net Metering and Easy Connection Act), implemented by K.A.R. 82-17-1 through 82-17-5; parallel generation is governed in part by K.S.A. 66-1,184 and utility tariffs. |
Other Kansas utilities
- Evergy Kansas CentralFormula basedFor post-July 1, 2014 net-metering systems, net excess generation is credited at no less than 1
- Evergy Kansas MetroFormula basedFor post-July 1, 2014 net-metering systems, net excess generation is credited at no less than 1
- Kansas co-ops and municipalsFormula basedParallel generation: renewable generators of 200 kW or less are compensated at no less than 150