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There's no citation or research about the laws in question in this article, or the Miami New Times article it cites as a source, or the WFTV article that it sou

There's no citation or research about the laws in question in this article, or the Miami New Times article it cites as a source, or the WFTV article that it sources. From what I gathered in reading the three articles there's a state code that mandates that homes must be hooked up to the electrical grid. With out seeing the law or it's history (e.g. when it was mandated), it's difficult to say if it's malice on the part of utilities or just a poorly worded law from 50 years ago. Electricity is regulated, like water, because it's something people have a hard time living without in modern society. It's perfectly reasonable for the state to mandate that properties have power as a protection for tenants. It certainly sounds like the power company is doing nothing to accommodate those who would like power by having policies in place for reporting solar hookups to protect linemen or offering bi-directional meters to avoid billing irregularities, but there's no evidence presented to support the assertion that they lobbied to prevent solar.

awful 9y ago
Florida has/had historically issues with power, especially as populations rose; the utilities were only willing to build generators if they could be guaranteed recovery. All this wasn't just about homes, but the power needs of the entire commercial, public, and safety infrastructure too.
_dingus 9y ago
>there's no evidence presented to support the assertion that they lobbied to prevent solar. Oh FPL 100% did that. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article113449438.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election... With that said, this article is fucking bonkers. It makes almost no sense and as you noted, the sources don't even line up with what they suggest they do. IFLS is bullshit. Unless I'm missing something, the law doesn't require renewable energy generators to be hooked up to the grid. It just establishes some rules requiring you to safely connect to the grid if you are going to offset your power supply from the utility company with a renewable energy source. That's absolutely reasonable. Beyond that, anyone who has bought a house would also want some guidelines and code inspections to be done on something as complicated as a solar install, which this rule also requires if you are going to get your install certified to be interconnected with the power grid and receive excess generation credits. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065 https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065

awful 9y ago

Florida has/had historically issues with power, especially as populations rose; the utilities were only willing to build generators if they could be guaranteed recovery. All this wasn't just about homes, but the power needs of the entire commercial, public, and safety infrastructure too.

_dingus 9y ago

>there's no evidence presented to support the assertion that they lobbied to prevent solar. Oh FPL 100% did that. http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election/article113449438.html http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/election... With that said, this article is fucking bonkers. It makes almost no sense and as you noted, the sources don't even line up with what they suggest they do. IFLS is bullshit. Unless I'm missing something, the law doesn't require renewable energy generators to be hooked up to the grid. It just establishes some rules requiring you to safely connect to the grid if you are going to offset your power supply from the utility company with a renewable energy source. That's absolutely reasonable. Beyond that, anyone who has bought a house would also want some guidelines and code inspections to be done on something as complicated as a solar install, which this rule also requires if you are going to get your install certified to be interconnected with the power grid and receive excess generation credits. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065 https://www.flrules.org/gateway/RuleNo.asp?ID=25-6.065