Florida Solar Panel Referendum

If the florida supreme court approves the ballot language florida voters could decide in november 2020 whether to be able.

Florida solar panel referendum. That s because florida has early voting and many of its citizens are only now discovering that a ballot initiative disguised to look like a pro solar energy amendment to the state constitution. 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. Any customer of peace river electric coop who puts up solar panels has to sign a solar interconnection agreement which now includes a penalty of 5 00 per kilowatt usually 11 or 14 cents per kw for every kilowatt of power that is used during and after 15 minutes of higher than. In central florida starting november 1st 2016.

Florida is one of only two states with no potential for conventional wind power the. The state may have another solar energy fight on the ballot in two years. A ballot measure in florida could pave the way for utilities to raise fees on solar customers. Meanwhile as the cost of solar installation falls duke energy florida is seeing more than 100 residential and business customers a month install solar panels said suzanne barr grant duke.

Voters in florida rejected amendment 1 yesterday a referendum that on its face seemed designed to expand solar power use but in reality sanctioned florida s utility companies to levy fees on. 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 the measure did not make the ballot in florida on november 8 2016. Solar energy is the state s most abundant energy resource and estimates have placed the state s potential at 2 902 gw which would produce about 5 274 479 gwh an amount much larger than the state and countries s total electricity consumption of 231 210 gwh and 4 125 060 gwh in 2010.