Florida Solar Panel Referendum

The state may have another solar energy fight on the ballot in two years.

Florida solar panel referendum.

If the florida supreme court approves the ballot language florida voters could decide in november 2020 whether to be able. Solar farms such as this 648 panel one in maryland have been cropping up in other states but until recently florida has been slow to get on the bandwagon despite its state nickname of the. 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. 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.

Florida is one of only two states with no potential for conventional wind power the. The solar power industry is opposed to amendment 1 a proposal to amend the state constitution that will appear on the ballot as florida solar energy subsidies and personal solar use initiative. A ballot measure in florida could pave the way for utilities to raise fees on solar customers. And that the law is intended to protect people who do not have solar panels on their homes from.

In central florida starting november 1st 2016. 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. 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.