Kansas 2023 2023-2024 Regular Session

Kansas House Bill HB2228 Introduced / Fiscal Note

                    Division of the Budget 
Landon State Office Building 	Phone: (785) 296-2436 
900 SW Jackson Street, Room 504 	adam.c.proffitt@ks.gov 
Topeka, KS  66612 	http://budget.kansas.gov 
 
Adam Proffitt, Director 	Laura Kelly, Governor 
Division of the Budget 
 
February 6, 2023 
 
 
 
 
The Honorable Leo Delperdang, Chairperson 
House Committee on Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications 
300 SW 10th Avenue, Room 582-N 
Topeka, Kansas  66612 
 
Dear Representative Delperdang: 
 
 SUBJECT: Fiscal Note for HB 2228 by House Committee on Energy, Utilities and 
Telecommunications 
 
 In accordance with KSA 75-3715a, the following fiscal note concerning HB 2228 is 
respectfully submitted to your committee. 
 
 HB 2228 would require Kansas electric utilities not under the jurisdiction of the Kansas 
Corporation Commission to make net-metering available under the Net-Metering and Easy 
Connection Act.  The bill would also remove the load size limitation of certain net-metered systems 
and increase the total generating capacity limit for all net-metered systems from 1.0 percent to 10.0 
percent of a utility’s peak demand from the previous year.  
 
 Additionally, HB 2228 would modify how excess energy generated by a net-metered system 
offsets a customer’s utility bill.  Under current law, such excess energy is credited to the customer at 
a rate of 100.0 percent of the utility’s monthly system average cost of energy per kilowatt-hour.  Under 
HB 2228, a customer’s balance of excess energy would be reduced by 25.0 percent and carried 
forward as kilowatt-hours against their energy consumption in subsequent months.  
 
 According to the League of Kansas Municipalities, enactment of HB 2228 would have an 
unknown fiscal effect on cities due to the new requirements for municipally owned electrical utilities.  
The Kansas Corporation Commission and the Citizens’ Utility Ratepayer Board indicate that 
enactment of HB 2228 would not have a fiscal effect on agency operations. 
 
 
 
 
 	Sincerely, 
 
 
 
 	Adam Proffitt 
 	Director of the Budget 
 
cc: Peter Barstad, Kansas Corporation Commission 
 Shonda Rabb, Citizens Utility Ratepayer Board