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posted by janrinok on Thursday September 01 2016, @11:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the sunshine-state-finally-living-up-to-its-name dept.

Solar Industry Magazine reports

Following a long local--and national--campaign, Florida voters overwhelmingly approved a pro-solar ballot measure during the state's primary election on [August 30].

Passed with 73% of the vote, Amendment 4 implements a change to the state constitution and clears the way for the legislature to implement new tax laws that advocates say will end prohibitive tax liabilities and help boost Florida's fledgling distributed solar market.

According to Vote Solar, a big proponent of the measure, Amendment 4 was placed on the ballot after garnering unanimous support from state policymakers in March. Specifically, the amendment authorizes the state legislature to abate ad valorem taxation and exempt tangible personal property tax on solar or renewable energy source devices installed on commercial and industrial property. This reflects an extension of the existing ad valorem abatement for solar and renewable energy devices on residential property. Once implemented by the legislature, the tax incentives of the amendment will begin in 2018 and extend for 20 years.

[...] The ballot summary says, "This amendment establishes a right under Florida's constitution for consumers to own or lease solar equipment installed on their property to generate electricity for their own use. State and local governments shall retain their abilities to protect consumer rights and public health, safety and welfare, and to ensure that consumers who do not choose to install solar are not required to subsidize the costs of backup power and electric grid access to those who do."

The Florida Supreme court narrowly approved the amendment's language in a 3-4 vote, and in her dissenting opinion[PDF][1], Justice Barbara Pariente deemed the ballot measure a "wolf in sheep's clothing".

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @02:37AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @02:37AM (#396525)

    Tor's not the problem, it doesn't resolve for me either.
    But the google cache brings it up, just search for the url. [google.com]

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @07:52PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 02 2016, @07:52PM (#396764)

    I've seen that fail but it almost always works.

    Something else that works (if you have a sample of part of the page) is to find a distinctive group of words and do a search for that "entered.as.a.phrase".
    Sometimes you will even get back hits on pages with the same content--but not PDFs.

    Oh, and if there is -specific- content you want folks to see in the Google Cache of the page, you can append that page number to the URL as a Fragment Identifier like #3.

    ...and you can also insert text that is noteworthy into the URL +to.highlight.that.stuff (if it's not too terribly far down the page).
    The Google Cache thing is pretty cool.
    ...and if you want that cached page to be available permanently, feed its URL into archive.is or archive.li (though they don't honor #FragmentIdentifiers you might include).

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    I really should have made the extra effort but it was getting late and my patience was wearing thin.
    It's very cool that a group of Soylentils have learned a bunch of the useful tricks and are willing to share.

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