House committee advances bill tightening consumer disclosures for rooftop solar, authorizes LMP pilot and capacity caps

A Kansas House committee voted to advance House Bill 2149, a comprehensive rewrite of state rules for customer‑scale distributed energy systems that the committee’s reviser said adds consumer protections, modifies compensation for exported energy and establishes a temporary pilot for locational marginal pricing.

Nick Myers, the committee reviser, said the substitute amendment requires residential distributed‑energy retailers who enter contracts for systems on single‑family homes and duplexes to provide prospective customers with a standard disclosure form developed and published by the Kansas attorney general’s advisory group. The advisory group must be convened by the attorney general and publish the standard disclosure form on the attorney general’s website before July 1, 2025, under the amendment.

The substitute also moves several provisions into a revised Parallel Generation statute and changes compensation for small systems. The amendment strikes an existing 150% payment metric for small systems and requires compensation of not less than 100% of the utility’s monthly avoided cost; it also authorizes utilities to use locational marginal pricing (LMP) or monthly system…