What HB 2527 altered
The Kansas Legislature amended the net metering Act in 2024 through HB 2527. It added and amended definitions, expanded the threshold capacity for investor-owned utilities to operate interconnection agreements, and changed permissible export generating capacities.
It also changed the methodology for monthly billing calculations. That is the mechanism that determines how your generation and consumption are compared each month and therefore how much credit you accrue.
A change to the billing methodology is not a technicality. It can alter how much of a given month generation is treated as offsetting consumption versus as export or credit.
So a quote built from a pre-2024 understanding of Kansas net metering may be modelling the wrong mechanism, even if every other number in it is correct.
The questions that settle it
Ask your utility which monthly billing calculation methodology now applies to a new residential net metering customer, and get it in writing.
Ask whether generation is compared against consumption across the whole month, or on some shorter interval, since that distinction changes how much becomes credit.
Ask how the permissible export generating capacity change interacts with the 150 percent of consumption sizing rule for your project.
Then ask your installer which methodology the projection assumed and reconcile the two. A discrepancy there is the most useful thing you can find before signing.
Why the methodology drives the design
If generation is netted against consumption across a full month, timing within the month matters little and annual sizing is sound.
If the comparison happens on a shorter interval, more of your midday generation becomes credit rather than a direct offset, and the design should lean more toward daytime self-consumption.
That is the same distinction that separates a workable design from a poor one in Georgia and Indiana, so it is worth establishing rather than assuming.
Ask for the monthly profile with the credit balance tracked to the March 31 expiry, built on the methodology that actually applies.
What belongs in the projection, and what does not
The 30 percent federal Residential Clean Energy Credit under Section 25D expired for property placed in service after December 31, 2025, so a cash or loan purchase in Olathe receives no federal tax credit, and Kansas has no state solar tax credit.
Section 48E survives at 30 percent for third-party owners under leases and power purchase agreements, so ask what a provider claims and what reaches you in the rate.
What exists is net metering under the Act as amended by HB 2527, with full retail-rate credits for systems at or below 150 percent of consumption and expiry on March 31.
Ask for the current billing methodology confirmed by the utility and reflected in the projection, with the credit balance tracked to the expiry date.