Solar by state
Solar in Kansas, by the numbers
Utilities and their rates, adoption, ten years of growth, batteries, ownership, state rules and installer licensing in Kansas, from federal 2024 data.
Kansas in brief
0.65% of Kansas homes had rooftop solar in 2024, the 13th-lowest of 51 (3.55% nationally). Power cost 14.15¢/kWh, below the national 16.48¢, and the average system was 7.7 kW. Evergy Kansas Central serves 26.0% of homes.
Where does Kansas stand out?
The four measures, beyond price and adoption, on which Kansas sits furthest from the middle of the ranking.
Kansas solar in numbers, 2024
Every Kansas figure next to the national one, with its place in the ranking (highest first, out of the jurisdictions reporting it).
| Measure | Kansas | United States | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homes with a metered rooftop system | 0.65% | 3.55% | 13th-lowest of 51 |
| Rooftop systems counted | 8,583 | 5,077,543 | 10th-lowest of 51 |
| Average system size | 7.7 kW | 6.74 kW | 20th-highest of 51 |
| Residential price | 14.15¢/kWh | 16.48¢/kWh | 20th-lowest of 51 |
| Average monthly bill | $123.90 | $142.26 | 16th-lowest of 51 |
| Use per home | 10,508 kWh/yr | 10,359 kWh/yr | 25th-lowest of 51 |
| Systems with a battery | 0.02% | 5.86% | 4th-lowest of 47 |
| Leased or on a PPA | 1.0% | 29.1% | 12th-lowest of 38 |
| Growth in systems, five years | 37.0% a year | — | 9th-highest of 51 |
| Minutes without power per customer | 290 | 297 (median state) | 25th-lowest of 51 |
| Homes on a time-varying rate | 2.0% | 11.1% | 25th-highest of 51 |
| Installed rooftop capacity | 66.1 MW | 34,226 MW | — |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861, 2024 final release, retrieved 2 September 2026. The Kansas ratios and ranks are HyreSolar calculations from EIA inputs.
Which utility serves Kansas, and what does it charge?
The 8 largest utilities selling to Kansas homes, by residential customers, with the price full-service customers paid and how many run net-metered solar.
| Utility | Type | Homes served | Price per kWh | Use per home, monthly | Net-metered systems |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergy Kansas Central | Investor-owned | 341,806 (26.0%) | 14.29¢ | 846 kWh | 3,115 (0.91%) |
| Evergy Kansas South | Investor-owned | 302,508 (23.0%) | 14.25¢ | 876 kWh | 2,746 (0.91%) |
| Evergy Metro | Investor-owned | 244,555 (18.6%) | 13.13¢ | 973 kWh | 1,507 (0.62%) |
| City of Kansas City | Municipal | 61,475 (4.7%) | 15.36¢ | 776 kWh | 349 (0.57%) |
| Midwest Energy Inc | Co-op | 29,832 (2.3%) | 11.44¢ | 886 kWh | None reported |
| Wheatland Electric Co-op | Co-op | 20,118 (1.5%) | 13.97¢ | 877 kWh | 49 (0.24%) |
| FreeState Electric Co-op | Co-op | 17,514 (1.3%) | 16.41¢ | 1,058 kWh | 436 (2.5%) |
| Victory Electric Co-op Association | Co-op | 14,243 (1.1%) | 11.86¢ | 849 kWh | 93 (0.65%) |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861 2024, Sales to Ultimate Customers and Net Metering, utility level, retrieved 5 October 2026. Shares are of 1,317,088 Kansas residential accounts. Each Kansas price is residential revenue divided by sales for full-service customers (HyreSolar calculation); a wires company’s price is its default-service price.
What do the Kansas utility figures mean for a solar quote?
EIA-861 lists 21 utilities serving homes in Kansas in 2024, across 1,317,088 residential accounts. The three largest, Evergy Kansas Central, Evergy Kansas South and Evergy Metro, served 67.5% of those homes. By ownership: investor-owned utilities 68.1%, small utilities EIA counts as a group 15.3%, electric cooperatives 9.3% and municipal utilities 7.2%.
All 1,317,088 Kansas residential accounts bought energy from the utility that delivers it; EIA counted none on a competitive supplier. So a Kansas utility’s own tariff sets both the price you avoid and the credit for what you export.
Evergy Kansas Central, the largest, served 341,806 Kansas homes (26.0%). Its full-service residential customers paid 14.29¢ per kWh, above the Kansas average of 14.15¢, and used 846 kWh a month on average. 3,115 of its customers ran net-metered rooftop solar, 0.91% of its homes against 0.65% statewide.
Among the 16 Kansas utilities with at least 5,000 residential customers and a full-service price, the price ran from 8.99¢ at City of McPherson to 16.41¢ at FreeState Electric Co-op. At the Kansas average of 10,508 kWh a year, that 7.42¢ gap is worth about $780 a year (our arithmetic), so the same system offsets more money in one territory than the other.
Price a quote on your own utility’s rate, not the 14.15¢ Kansas average.
Rooftop solar is concentrated: Evergy Kansas Central alone accounts for 3,115 net-metered residential systems, about 36% of the 8,583 counted in Kansas, and 13 Kansas utilities reported any at all. The highest adoption among the larger utilities was at FreeState Electric Co-op, where 2.5% of homes had a system.
What does power cost in Kansas, and why does it matter?
Residential electricity in Kansas averaged 14.15¢ per kilowatt-hour in 2024, the 20th-lowest of 51 and below the national 16.48¢. The price sits near the middle of the 51. With the retail rate unremarkable, what your utility pays for exported power can decide the result.
The average Kansas household bill was $123.90 a month ($1,487 a year), the 16th-lowest of 51, against $142.26 nationally. That $1,487 is the ceiling on what solar could save a typical Kansas home, before fixed monthly charges.
Only 2.0% of Kansas homes were on a time-varying rate in 2024 (11.1% nationally), so a flat rate is the likely starting point. 92.8% of Kansas residential meters were smart meters (83.8% nationally), and a time-varying rate needs one. How time-of-use changes solar.
How many Kansas homes have solar?
Kansas had 8,583 rooftop systems on net metering in 2024, across 1,317,095 residential accounts: 0.65% of homes, the 13th-lowest of 51. Kansas is a thin market. Fewer companies can mean slower quotes and less to compare, so ask each one how many local systems it has installed.
The Kansas market counted 1,618 more systems in 2024 than in 2023 and has grown 37.0% a year over five years, the 9th-highest of 51. Where growth has turned nationally.
How has Kansas solar changed since 2014?
Kansas counted 265 net-metered rooftop systems in 2014 and 8,583 in 2024, 32.4 times as many. The share of homes with one moved from 0.02% to 0.65%. The biggest one-year addition came in 2023, with 2,334 more systems than the year before.
| Year | Rooftop systems | Share of homes | Average size | Residential price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 265 | 0.02% | 5.2 kW | 12.17¢ |
| 2016 | 657 | 0.05% | 7.8 kW | 13.06¢ |
| 2018 | 1,372 | 0.11% | 8.4 kW | 13.35¢ |
| 2020 | 2,008 | 0.16% | 7.2 kW | 12.85¢ |
| 2022 | 4,631 | 0.36% | 7.8 kW | 13.99¢ |
| 2024 | 8,583 | 0.65% | 7.7 kW | 14.15¢ |
Source: US EIA, Form EIA-861 annual files 2014–2024, net-metered residential systems, retrieved 2 September 2026. Kansas shares and sizes are HyreSolar calculations.
What does the Kansas trend mean for a savings estimate?
Over the same years the Kansas residential price went from 12.17¢ to 14.15¢ per kWh, up 16%, and the average system from 5.2 kW to 7.7 kW. With Kansas prices up 16% across ten years, a savings estimate that assumes steep yearly rate rises is assuming more than this record shows.
How big is a typical Kansas system?
The average Kansas system was 7.7 kW in 2024, the 20th-highest of 51, against 6.74 kW nationally. Kansas homes used 10,508 kilowatt-hours a year each, the 25th-lowest of 51.
A Kansas home using 10,508 kWh is an average, not a design input: size from your own twelve months of bills and usable roof with cost by system size and the system size calculator.
Who owns the systems in Kansas?
In Kansas, 1.0% of systems were third-party owned in 2024: leased, or on a power purchase agreement (PPA), rather than owned by the household. That is the 12th-lowest of 38, against 29.1% nationally.
Nearly every Kansas system is owned by the household. A lease or power purchase agreement would be unusual here, which is a reason to read one closely. Whoever owns a Kansas system claims any tax credit on it: Section 48E explained.
Do Kansas homes add batteries?
In Kansas, 0.02% of solar systems were paired with a battery in 2024 (2 systems), the 4th-lowest of 47. Kansas’s share is well under half the national 5.86%.
On reliability, the average Kansas customer went 290 minutes without power in 2024 counting major storms, and 104 minutes without them. The median state saw 297. Outages in every state.
Whether a battery pays in Kansas turns on your utility’s export credit and your own outage history: what a home battery does.
How do you check a solar company’s license in Kansas?
We found no dedicated state register for solar work in Kansas, so we publish no company counts. That is not evidence of light regulation: electrical work can be licensed at state or local level even where solar is never named.
With 8,583 systems in Kansas, the company quoting you may be based out of state. Ask which license it holds, in which state, and confirm it with that authority. What to do when the search comes back empty.
Which states are closest to Kansas on adoption?
The six jurisdictions nearest to Kansas’s 0.65% share of homes with rooftop solar.
Where do the Kansas numbers come from?
The Kansas figures are HyreSolar calculations from the Form EIA-861 annual files: 8,583 net-metered residential systems counted against 1,317,095 residential accounts, sizes as means, and 21 utility-level rows for the utility table, matched to net-metering records by EIA utility number.
The method and limits cover all 51; the Kansas row is in the data as a CSV.
No Kansas figure here is an estimate for one home: your roof, usage, utility tariff and tax position decide that.
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