Florida AG Pam Bondi wants solar initiative struck from ballot

[KamaAina]

http://www.wptv.com/news/state/florida-ag-pam-bondi-wants-solar-initiative-struck-from-ballot

Attorney General Pam Bondi's office is asking the Florida Supreme Court to not allow a proposed constitutional amendment to promote solar energy on next year's ballot.

Bondi's office told the court that the ballot summary on the initiative is vague, misleading, uses language that's emotional rather than factual and deals with more than one subject.

A coalition called Floridians for Solar Choice is collecting signatures to put their proposal on next year's ballot. It would prevent the state from regulating small, private solar companies that provide up to two megawatts of solar energy to properties that border them.

So far, the group has gathered more than 94,000 of the 683,149 voter signatures needed to get on the ballot. The Supreme Court will decide whether the ballot language is proper.

Um, isn't it called the Sunshine State?

[The Blue Flower]

1. It isn't call Florida POWER and Light for nothing

There's also Gulf Power. Can't have people doing it for themselves.

[djean111]

2. The power companies will fight solar power until they figure out how to make just as much

profit from it. With the increasingly efficient storage batteries and increasingly more affordable solar panels, maybe the folks like Duke Power will inadvertently hasten the advent of smaller local grids bypassing them altogether. Right now, I think I read that the power companies want to greatly increase the grid maintenance fees - THAT WE ARE ALREADY PAYING.

Yes, this is the Sunshine State, and the power companies are mightily pissed off because they cannot figure out a way to charge for access to sunshine.