Floridians For Solar Choice Say Vote "No" on Amendment 1

Floridians For Solar Choice Say Vote "No" on Amendment 1
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/

Get the Facts on Amendment #1
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/amendment1/
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/No-on-1-factsheet-FINAL.pdf

They say it is a monopoly utilities sponsored amendment that is designed to protect their market share.

I am all for unimpeded rooftop solar for those who can afford it and want it. I will be looking further into this amendment between now and the election.

Thanks for posting, Z. I am aware of this Orwellian amendment...but others may not be. Will be voting, "Hell, NO!"

Floridatexan wrote:
Thanks for posting, Z.  I am aware of this Orwellian amendment...but others may not be.  Will be voting, "Hell, NO!"

The amendment is an attempt to block the private market for solar in Florida — not to expand consumer choice — and voters should not be confronted with this sneak attack.

The misnamed Consumers for Smart Solar, a special interest group financed by the regulated utilities, is behind a constitutional amendment its supporters say promotes "a sensible, fair and safe expansion of solar energy" in Florida. The measure does no such thing. It merely cements into the Constitution the antimarket restrictions that already exist in state law and keeps the market for solar effectively closed, too expensive for the general public.

The amendment mentions consumer "rights" and solar "choice," but it doesn't expand either. It merely would enshrine into the Constitution the rights and regulations affecting solar that already exist in state law. Rather than expanding choice for consumers, the measure does the opposite. Giving the electric monopolies the additional constitutional protection for their outdated business models would put Florida even further behind in the use of renewable energies. That's why the industry has spent nearly $7 million on the measure, which came about in reaction to a ballot proposal conceived by environmentalists that would have truly brought competition to the solar market. That competing effort failed to get enough signatures for 2016 and is scheduled to come back in 2018.

http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-court-should-reject-solar-amendment/2268839

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Floridians For Solar Choice Say Vote "No" on Amendment 1
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/

Get the Facts on Amendment #1
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/amendment1/
http://www.flsolarchoice.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/No-on-1-factsheet-FINAL.pdf

They say it is a monopoly utilities sponsored amendment that is designed to protect their market share.

I am all for unimpeded rooftop solar for those who can afford it and want it. I will be looking further into this amendment between now and the election.

Thanks Zman.