Electric company reimbursements for rooftop solar panels would be reduced if new law passes.
, their voices weren’t persuasive in the Legislature. The measure passed the full House on Wednesday and is headed toward a vote in the full Senate.received tens of thousands of dollars from Florida utilities this election cycle, including $22,500 from FPL’s parent company NextEra Energy — and others who support her bill say it would save all power customers money.
“Even if a rooftop system is capable of generating electricity equivalent to 100% of the customer’s consumption, FPL is required by law to incur costs to build and maintain infrastructure to provide full and instantaneous service to the customer when the sun is not shining or when the customer’s system is offline or otherwise unavailable,” he emailedThe goal of the bill, Bradley and McClure argue, is to prevent larger subsidies as Florida’s rooftop solar industry grows .
Heaven Campbell, Florida program director for the Solar United Neighbors advocacy group, describes the “cost shift” argument as “unhinged.” “When you actually do all the math, there’s no question at all that when a customer puts in their own capital they protect the utility from having to put in their capital to produce the same amount of electricity,” he says. “The reason that many utilities are balking against net metering is because they’re a regulated industry — they’re usually guaranteed a 10% rate of return — and the only way they get that return is by investing capital.
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