(Updated to correct the monthly cost of grid access fee)
The Kansas Corporation Commission's staff is backing Evergy's fallback proposal to impose a $35 minimum electric bill to help recover the cost of demand that it says solar-powered homes place on the electric grid.
Evergy had proposed a minimum utility bill as an alternative to a grid access fee of $3 per month per kilowatt, or roughly $20 a month for solar users.
But the KCC staff recommended the minimum bill, fearing the grid access fee would violate a state Supreme Court ruling that SSJ
