Florida defeats solar power measure critics called misleading

The Hill: Florida voters are projected to defeat a proposed constitutional amendment that opponents say would have hurt the rooftop solar power industry.

Amendment 1 would have given Floridians a constitutional right to use rooftop solar power and mandated that government agencies protect customers both involved and not involved with rooftop solar.

But the solar industry and environmentalists charged that the amendment was a wolf in sheep’s clothing, misleadingly designed by electric utilities to restrict rooftop solar.

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