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Amendment one -should I vote yes or no. I have tried to read it and don't quite (Original Post) patricia92243 Oct 2016 OP
It's generally viewed as a bad deal anoNY42 Oct 2016 #1
Thanks, you make it easy for me to understand. I'll be voting no. patricia92243 Oct 2016 #5
I'm a "no" too anoNY42 Oct 2016 #6
Please vote NO HAB911 Oct 2016 #2
ADDITIONALLY HAB911 Oct 2016 #3
Yeah, I voted No on that... Callmecrazy Oct 2016 #7
THANKS EVERYONE! As usual, I can always depend on DU :) patricia92243 Oct 2016 #8
Follow the money mitch96 Oct 2016 #9
 

anoNY42

(670 posts)
1. It's generally viewed as a bad deal
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 04:26 AM
Oct 2016

for solar by folks on the left. It uses nice language like making solar a constitutional right (as if someone is trying to ban solar, which is not the case), but it also could lead to power companies not paying as much for power sent back to the grid by the solar system.

Power companies want a law stating they can charge a solar panel owner a fee for a grid connection based on the theory that that person is not paying his "fair share" of the maintenance costs for the grid (since the maintenance costs are rolled into the price of electricity, and that person is not using as much electricity from the grid due to his panels). Some folks think this is logical, some do not. This amendment makes laws allowing power companies to do this more likely.

HAB911

(8,890 posts)
2. Please vote NO
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 05:12 AM
Oct 2016

It's intended to keep control of solar in the hands of the power companies to maintain their monopoly

HAB911

(8,890 posts)
3. ADDITIONALLY
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 05:17 AM
Oct 2016

Please vote NO for Judicial Retention for the three Supreme Court Justices that allowed this extremely confusing wording on the ballot.

Labarga, Canady, and Polston.

Not up for retention but voting not to allow was Justice Pariente. She said in her dissent, "The ballot title is affirmatively misleading"

Callmecrazy

(3,065 posts)
7. Yeah, I voted No on that...
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 08:14 AM
Oct 2016

The Utilities want to charge people with Photovoltaic (PV) systems a maintenance fee and they don't want to pay for the power that PV systems deliver to the grid.

mitch96

(13,895 posts)
9. Follow the money
Fri Oct 28, 2016, 03:06 PM
Oct 2016

FPL and Duke energy are behind it..... Why? so they can control the profits...
Vote NO!!

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