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Evergy Missouri net metering in Missouri

Western Missouri, including Kansas City, St Joseph and Sedalia. Two companies, Evergy Missouri Metro and Evergy Missouri West, each with its own surplus rate of about 2 cents.

Type
Investor owned
Accounts
700K

What they credit you

About 2 cents for a month’s surplus; credits expire at 12 months

Published terms

Usage is netted within each billing period, or within each time-of-use period on time-of-use plans. The month’s net surplus is credited on the next bill at the company’s parallel generation rate: $0.0190 a kWh in Evergy Missouri Metro (16th Revised Sheet No. 31A) and $0.0198 in Evergy Missouri West (6th Revised Sheet No. 102.1), both effective 21 February 2025.

Month to month
Credits carry forward but expire without compensation twelve months after issue, or when you disconnect.
Once a year
None; unused credit lapses.

Published terms · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Installers serving Evergy MO customers

Pick one. Only the company you choose receives your details, and only that company calls you.

Not sure which to choose?

These are real companies operating in Evergy MO territory. Bold Energy is listed first because it is the company we introduce first. That order is our choice, not a score. The other companies are ordered by reviews, years trading and BBB grade. None of them pays us for placement. Pick the one you want and we will call you to arrange it.

Ordering combines three things we read from primary sources: Google review count and rating, years trading taken from the company’s Better Business Bureau profile rather than its own marketing, and its BBB letter grade. BBB accreditation is shown but never scored, because it is a paid membership rather than a mark of quality.

Check any contractor license yourself at the state register. Do that before you sign anything, with any company, including ours.

What this looks like on a Evergy MO bill

An average Missouri household, against a system sized to cover its year. The energy charge is the part that goes to zero. The fixed monthly charge underneath it is the part that never does, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

Meter readingkWh
Energy charge$162.36
$162.36
We have read this provider’s own tariff. What it still bills you at zero is set out below, with the sheet it came from. The energy line above uses the statewide average. See what they still bill
DirectionReading…

Meter reading falling from 41926 to 41647 kilowatt hours. A 1,001 kilowatt hour month against 1,280 kilowatt hours produced leaves 0 kilowatt hours billed and 279 banked for next month, so the energy charge falls from $162.36 to $0.00 at 16.22 cents per kilowatt hour.

Missouri average household use, 1,001 kWh a month, at the current published residential price of 16.22¢ per kWh. Your utility still bills a fixed monthly customer charge that no system offsets, so this is the energy part of the bill, which is the part that goes away.

Evergy MO requirementRequired

Battery backup is mandatory
in Evergy MO territory.

Evergy MO does not credit the power you send back at the rate it charges you to take it.

That does not make solar a bad idea in Evergy MO territory. It changes what you should build. When exports are worth a fraction of retail the credit stops being the return, and the job becomes using more of your own production inside the house, which usually means a larger array than a one for one utility would need.

Sizing is where that gets decided, so ask about it directly. Missouri caps eligible systems at 100 kW and expires unused credits after twelve months, so a bank built over one summer has to be spent within the year. Size to your own annual usage. Evergy MO sets its own limits. Ask Evergy MO what it allows before you accept that a bigger system is off the table.

A battery then does two separate jobs. It moves daytime production into the evening so you use it instead of selling it, and it keeps the house running when the grid goes down. That second job is not a bonus. Panels on their own shut off in an outage, by design, so a roof full of them powers nothing during a storm. That is the part we will not refer around.

So we treat it as a requirement, not an upgrade. We will not refer you for a panels-only system in Evergy MO territory, and you should be skeptical of anyone who quotes you one without raising storage first.

Our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement

What your installer should be telling you

The customer charge is billed even in a surplus month. At about 2 cents against 12 to 15 cents to buy, a surplus is worth a sixth or a seventh of the energy it displaces, so size to your own use.

What Evergy MO bills you anyway

In a month when your production covers everything you use, the energy charge can reach zero. This does not. It is the floor under every bill, and it is the number that decides whether a system pays for itself.

The charge
$12.00 a month in the Kansas City area, $12.90 with Evergy Missouri West
How it is set
Check which company is printed on your bill before using this figure, because “Evergy Missouri” is two utilities with two tariffs. Evergy Metro, trading as Evergy Missouri Metro, serves the Kansas City side; Evergy Missouri West serves St Joseph, Sedalia and the rest. They file separately with the Missouri Public Service Commission and their charges need not match. For Evergy Missouri Metro the figure is read and current. Schedule R, Residential Standard Tier Service, sets “CUSTOMER CHARGE (Per Month) $12.00” and defines the floor directly beneath it — “Minimum Monthly Bill: (1) Customer Charge; plus (2) Any additional charges for line extensions, if applicable.” So $12.00 unless your property carried a line extension, in which case the agreement that paid for it sets a larger floor. Energy above it is seasonal and steeply tiered the useful way: in summer 14.053 cents for the first 1,000 kilowatt hours and 15.515 cents above, against a winter run of 12.495 cents for the first 600, 7.693 cents for the next 400 and 6.824 cents beyond. The kilowatt hours a July array removes are the dearest of the year, and the ones it cannot reach in January are the cheapest. Evergy Missouri West is the other half and its figure is different, which is the reason not to carry one across: its Residential Standard Tier Service sets a Customer Charge of $12.90, effective 1 July 2026, and its minimum is simpler than Metro’s — “The Minimum Monthly Bill shall be the Customer Charge”, with no line-extension addition. Missouri West also files a separate Residential Time of Use — Net Meter schedule, so a West customer-generator should ask which of the two they will be billed on.

Evergy Metro, Inc. d/b/a Evergy Missouri Metro, P.S.C. MO. No. 7, Schedule R, Residential Standard Tier Service, 12th Revised Sheet No. SA, issued 5 January 2026 and effective 4 February 2026; Evergy Missouri West, P.S.C. MO. No. 1, Residential Standard Tier Service, 5th Revised Sheet No. 146, issued 15 May 2026 and effective 1 July 2026 · checked 2026-10-01 · source

Applying to Evergy MO

What Evergy MO itself requires, as distinct from what the state rule requires. Read from its own published guidelines on the date shown.

The statute defines what you are paid, in its own words
Avoided fuel cost means the incremental costs to the utility of electric energy it would generate itself or purchase from another source. It is the floor the statute sets, not a ceiling on what a utility may offer.
Credits expire after twelve months
A surplus banked over the summer must be used within the year. There is no payout at the end, so the credit simply lapses.
What a month’s surplus is worth
Usage is netted kilowatt hour for kilowatt hour within each billing period. The net surplus is credited at each company’s avoided fuel cost: Ameren Missouri 3.84 cents a kWh from June to September and 3.39 cents otherwise; Evergy Missouri Metro 1.90 cents; Evergy Missouri West 1.98 cents.
Time-of-use changes the netting
On Ameren’s Smart Saver, Overnight Saver and Ultimate Saver rates, and on Evergy’s time-of-use plans, netting is done within each time-of-use period, so midday exports cannot cancel evening use. Ameren also bars net metering from its older Optional Time-of-Day rates.
100 kW is the eligibility ceiling
Far above what a house needs, so the statute is not what limits your system. The twelve month credit clock is.

From Evergy MO’s published guidelines · checked 2026-10-02 · source

Evergy MO net metering questions

Does Evergy MO offer one for one net metering?
No. Usage is netted within each billing period, or within each time-of-use period on time-of-use plans. The month’s net surplus is credited on the next bill at the company’s parallel generation rate: $0.0190 a kWh in Evergy Missouri Metro (16th Revised Sheet No. 31A) and $0.0198 in Evergy Missouri West (6th Revised Sheet No. 102.1), both effective 21 February 2025.
What does Evergy MO pay for power sent back to the grid?
About 2 cents for a month’s surplus; credits expire at 12 months. None; unused credit lapses.
Do I need a battery with Evergy MO?
Yes, and we treat it as mandatory. Because Evergy MO does not credit exports one for one, the return has to come from using your own production rather than selling it, which after dark means storage and usually a larger array than a one for one utility would need. The other half is backup: panels alone shut off in an outage, so a battery is what keeps the house running in a storm. We do not refer panels-only systems in Evergy MO territory. This is our referral policy, not a legal or utility requirement.
How do I find my Evergy MO bill?
Sign in at evergy.com. Open My Account, then Billing. Open the latest bill and save the PDF. Or screenshot the summary page. If you cannot get to it, a rough guess at your average monthly amount is enough to start.
What is the catch with Evergy MO?
The customer charge is billed even in a surplus month. At about 2 cents against 12 to 15 cents to buy, a surplus is worth a sixth or a seventh of the energy it displaces, so size to your own use.