In 2016, Florida voters were close to being tricked by the state’s monopoly utilities into voting for an amendment on the state ballot that would have fortified the utilities’ monopolies and locked out rooftop solar companies.
Days before the election, Mary Ellen Klas of the Miami Herald/Tampa Times reported on audio obtained by EPI and the Center for Media and Democracy that exposed how the industry attempted to deceive voters through the ballot amendment.
The audio captured Sal Nuzzo, a vice president at the James Madison Institute, speaking at a State Policy Network conference pre-event in which he detailed the strategy used by Florida Power & Light, Duke Energy, and Southern Company to create and finance Amendment 1.