Fflorida Solar Panels Amendment

Clean energy advocates have attempted multiple times in the past few election cycles to pass a solar energy constitutional amendment.

Fflorida solar panels amendment. It is supported by consumers for smart solar and opposed by floridians for solar choice. The florida right to produce and sell solar energy initiative was not on the ballot in florida as an initiated constitutional amendment on november 6 2018. When you produce extra energy you are able to store it in the public grid. Today florida governor rick scott signed solar energy legislation senate bill 90 sb 90 to increase clean energy solar production and job creation for florida.

A proposed amendment in florida would finally allow third party leasing in the state but it also contains language that would allow utility companies to charge solar panel consumers extra. The measure would have provided businesses and individuals with a constitutional right to produce up to two megawatts of solar power and sell that power directly to others at the same or contiguous property. Sb 90 enacts amendment 4 a ballot measure receiving an overwhelming 73 percent voter support during last august 30 primary election. People who generate their own solar energy are able to receive credits on electric bills.

Only one of these amendments was approved amendment 4 which extended property tax exemptions from just residential solar systems to also include commercial solar systems. Those attempts have failed for one reason or another. They earn these credits because of the surplus energy that they produced. The measure did not make the ballot in florida on november 8 2016.

Florida voters rejected amendment 1 on tuesday the utility backed measure to limit rooftop solar expansion after a scrappy grassroots campaign and last minute revelations raised doubts about the. Florida power and light is just one of five major power companies that have spent 25 million on a campaign to pass amendment one a bill that would end third party ownership of solar panels a. Florida amendment 1 whose full title is rights of electricity consumers regarding solar energy choice amendment 1 is a 2016 constitutional amendment on solar energy in the u s. According to the law on solar panels the florida solar rights act homeowners can earn back funds.

A vote for amendment 1 supported adding a section in the state constitution giving residents of florida the right to own or lease solar energy equipment for personal use while also enacting constitutional protection for any state or local law ensuring that residents who do not produce solar energy can abstain from subsidizing its production.