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On May 5, 2006, the Florida Legislature enacted a comprehensive energy bill, Senate Bill 888. The sweeping legislation establishes the nine-member Florida Energy Commission, provides matching grants to stimulate economic development, designates Energy Efficient Week with a sales tax holiday on energy-efficient appliances and other products, and establishes the Renewable Energy Technologies Grants program to encourage the purchase of photovoltaic and solar thermal systems. |
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Your solar system is a combined technological and economic solution designed to eliminate the electric bill for a home or business. Solar systems can stay connected to the utility grid "no batteries necessary" to take advantage of Net Metering laws. This law requires public utilities to credit renewable energy producers at the "retail rate" for the electricity they send out to the grid. Net metering is designed to reduce demand during long hot summer days when energy demand is heaviest, while providing energy credits that allow solar producers to reduce or eliminate their annual electric bill. Under Net Metering, a benefit of deregulation of the energy system, the utility credits solar energy producers for any surplus electricity they send out to the grid. On sunny days the electric meter spins backwards and the solar system earns credit for the energy at the utility's retail energy rates. At night or on rainy days, the grid provides the power and the home or building taps into the credit the solar system earned while the sun was shining. The energy from the solar system plus the utility credit will zero out the net annual electric bill. Steps to a net metered solar system:
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