In a victory for renewable energy, the Kansas Supreme Court ruled that customers generating their own energy cannot be charged any more than customers that do not. The ruling now makes it unlawful to charge extra fees on residential solar and wind generation customers.
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| A win for renewable energy users in Kansas. |
A lawsuit filed by Earthjustice, the Sierra Club and Vote Solar contested Kansas Corporate Commission’s approval of “demand charges” on such residential customers, which has become a national trend led by utility lobbyists, a press release stated. The court ruled the charge was “simply price discrimination.”
“As the Kansas Supreme Court recognized, charging solar customers more for their electricity is price discrimination, plain and simple,” David Bender, the Earthjustice attorney who argued the case, said. “Kansans, like all Americans, have a right to the free solar energy delivered to their roofs every day without fear of illegal utility charges that serve only to preserve the utility’s anti-competitive monopoly and prop up uneconomic fossil fuels. We are happy the court agreed with us.”
The ruling stated that the “rate design is unlawful and the [KCC] erred by approving a discriminatory rate in violation” of Kansas law.
Read the story from Nation of Change by Ashley Curtin - "Kansas Supreme Court rule in favor of renewable energy.”
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