Solar installation in Lawrence, Kansas, where your rates are going up faster than Kansas City's.

Short version for Lawrence:

Kansas state law (K.S.A. 66-1263) requires Evergy to offer net metering to qualifying solar customers. The Kansas Corporation Commission enforces the rules on both Central and Metro Evergy subsidiaries. We file the interconnection packet on your behalf.

A city with a very specific origin story

Lawrence was founded to keep Kansas free.

In 1854, the New England Emigrant Aid Company sent the first settlers west to found a town that would tilt the Kansas Territory toward the anti-slavery position. They named it Lawrence, for Amos Adams Lawrence, the Massachusetts philanthropist who helped fund the migration. The settlers named their main street Massachusetts in tribute. Pro-slavery forces burned the town in 1856. Seven years later, Confederate guerrillas under William Quantrill massacred 150 to 200 men and boys in a single morning, on August 21, 1863. The town rebuilt.

That history is still written into Massachusetts Street today. The six-block downtown stretch is one of the most intact 19th-century commercial districts in the Midwest: limestone and brick facades, cast-iron storefronts, original streetscape. The University of Kansas sits up the hill at Mount Oread, established in 1866. The Eldridge Hotel, originally the Free State Hotel that pro-slavery raiders burned down in 1856, was rebuilt and is still operating. Most of Lawrence's older residential neighborhoods radiate outward from Mass Street in the original 19th-century grid.

None of this is decorative context. The built environment matters for solar. Lawrence's oldest neighborhoods (Oread, Old West Lawrence, East Lawrence, Pinckney) have Victorian-era and early 20th-century homes on smaller lots with complex rooflines and older electrical systems. Lawrence's newer neighborhoods (West Lawrence, Fall Creek Farms, Deerfield) look like any other 1990s-2010s subdivision. We install on both. The conversations are different.