The Flint Hills REC Board of Trustees will discuss and vote upon modifications to its distributed generation riders in November.  This meeting is open to the membership and will be held on Monday, November 18, 2024, at 6:30 p.m. at the cooperative’s office at 1564 S 1000 Rd. in Council Grove.

If you have questions or comments, and you are unable to attend, you may call the Flint Hills REC office on 620-767-5144 or send written comments to Flint Hills Rural Electric Cooperative Assn., Inc., PO Box B, Council Grove, KS 66846. Members have the right under K.S.A. 66-104d(g) to petition the Kansas Corporation Commission for review of a rate change.

Over the past four months the Board of Trustees reviewed all Distributed Generation Riders.  Those riders include Parallel Generation Rider, Parallel Generation Rider-Renewable and Net Metering Rider.  The Board of Trustees is also introducing a Commercial Interconnection Rider. 

The proposed changes to the Parallel Generation Rider and the Parallel Generation Rider-Renewable increase the total amount of AC capacity output of interconnections available under these riders from 4% percent of the Cooperative’s previous year’s peak load to 5% percent.  The current 4% limit includes all interconnections.  The proposed 5% limit will only include the AC capacity output for the combined interconnections on the Parallel Generation Rider, Parallel Generation Rider-Renewable, and the Net Metering Rider.  Other proposed changes include better definition of appropriately sized generation units. There was also clarification made to each tariff to match K.S.A. 66-1184.