Westar Energy proposes a new rate plan that completely disincentivizes solar and energy efficiency. It raises costs for solar panel owners.
Westar’s “stability” plan would raise the flat customer charge every household pays but lower the fuel charge, which is based on how much the customer uses. That would raise costs for solar panel owners because they use fewer kilowatt-hours, and the flat charge is the largest part of their bill, Horst said.
Even for Kansas - completely controlled by ALEC and the Wichita-based Kochs - this is a new low.
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Our Senate President Susan Wagle from Wichita, and our Speaker of the House Ray Merrick from Stillwell, both sit on the board of ALEC. ALEC controls the entire Senate and most of the House. Wagle and Merrick will travel to San Diego to attend the ALEC meeting and get their legislative agenda behind closed doors. Taxpayers are probably footing the bill for them to attend; taxpayers paid for many KS legislators to attend another ALEC meeting recently.
Kansas is doomed. Under Governor Brownback and a legislature owned by ALEC, Kansas is broke, in debt, credit ruined, schools strapped, cupboards bare - and this after they just passed the LARGEST TAX INCREASE IN KANSAS HISTORY - all on the backs of the middle class and poor - higher sales and sin taxes, no tax relief on food which Democrats proposed (food is taxed at the full rate), elimination of most personal deductions including property tax and mortgage interest. Kansas is broken by Kochs and ALEC and there is no fixing it.