Fine Print: Florida's 'Pro-Solar' Ballot Measure is Anything But

[UCmeNdc]

Renewable power advocates lose their last-ditch appeal to get a utility-backed energy initiative off the Nov. 8 ballot.





A Florida ballot initiative backed by energy utilities and an array of right-leaning organizations could damage efforts to expand solar power in the state. Now an eleventh-hour attempt by opponents to get it removed from the ballot has failed.

Amendment 1 “opens the door for the monopoly utilities to go to the legislature or the public service commission and ask for fees to be imposed upon solar users, or to take some sort of negative stance or in another way hinder net metering,” said Tom Kimbis, interim president of the Solar Energy Industries Association. “If utilities can drive up the cost of solar by pushing up the fees or cutting off net metering, that makes solar less affordable and cuts off expansion.” Kimbis termed the ballot measure’s language deceptive, noting that the rights of the state to protect consumers, public health, and the safety and welfare of state residents, along with the right of consumers “to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use,” are already covered by various Florida statutes.


http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/11/05/florida-utility-backed-solar-power-amendment

[Freddie]

1. My son early-voted in FL and told me about this

Love how the R's get misleadingly worded stuff on the ballot, like the PA issue about judges retirement. For all of us here in PA, vote No!

[superpatriotman]

2. No on 1

Yes on 2

[NCTraveler]

3. NO ON 1 IN FLORIDA!!!!

Shady as hell the way the synopsis is written.