Fflorida Solar Panels Amendment

Amendment 4 of senate bill 90 last november two amendments to senate bill 90 were proposed in the florida senate.

Fflorida solar panels amendment.

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. 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. 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.

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. When you produce extra energy you are able to store it in the public grid. Those attempts have failed for one reason or another. The republican backed bill also received tremendous lawmaker approval and passed unanimously in.

The amendment has been called misleading by opponents. 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. They earn these credits because of the surplus energy that they produced. Clean energy advocates have attempted multiple times in the past few election cycles to pass a solar energy constitutional amendment.

It is supported by consumers for smart solar and opposed by floridians for solar choice. People who generate their own solar energy are able to receive credits on electric bills. 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. Sb 90 enacts amendment 4 a ballot measure receiving an overwhelming 73 percent voter support during last august 30 primary election.

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.