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Miami Frustrated with FPL After Hurricane Irma (miaminewtimes.com)
2 points by jseliger on Sept 17, 2017 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Notable:

FPL's lobbying wing has fought hard against letting Floridians power their own homes with solar panels. Thanks to power-company rules, it's impossible across Florida to simply buy a solar panel and power your individual home with it. You are instead legally mandated to connect your panels to your local electric grid.

More egregious, FPL mandates that if the power goes out, your solar-power system must power down along with the rest of the grid, robbing potentially needy people of power during major outages.




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