Revealed: the Florida power company pushing legislation to slow rooftop solar
by Mary Ellen Klas for the Miami Herald and Mario Ale from Environment | The Guardian on (#5T7KJ)
Florida Power & Light delivered bill text to a state lawmaker. Its parent company sent $10,000 to her campaign coffers
The biggest power company in the US is pushing policy changes that would hamstring rooftop solar power in Florida, delivering legislation for a state lawmaker to introduce, according to records obtained by the Miami Herald and Floodlight.
Florida Power & Light (FPL), whose work with dark money political committees helped secure Republican control of the state Senate, is lobbying to hollow out net metering, a policy that lets Florida homeowners and businesses offset the costs of installing solar panels by selling power back to the company.
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