1. BALLOT TITLE: Limits or Prevents Barriers to Local Solar Energy Supply

2. Presently, Florida is one of four states that prohibits anyone but a utility from selling electricity.

3. Allows individuals or investors to install solar panels and sell the electricity to the nearby consumers.

4. 1.Attract investment to Florida 2. Create jobs 3. Reduce costs through competition 4. Reduce carbon usage and reduce global warming

5. MANY FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS OFFICIALLY SUPPORT SOLAR CHOICE Palm Beach Post

6. Groups that favor property rights: Republican Liberty Caucus of Florida Libertarian Party of Florida The Tea Party Network Conservatives for Energy Freedom

7. Groups that favor economic development: Florida Retail Federation Florida Solar Energy Industries Association (FlaSEIA) Florida Restaurant & Lodging Association The Florida Renewable Energy Association (FREA)

8. Groups that favor environmental protection: Southern Alliance for Clean Energy Evangelical Environmental Network Sierra Club Greenpeace USA Physicians for Social Responsibility, FL Florida League of Women Voters

9. Florida Chamber of Commerce Florida League of Cities Florida Power & Light Duke Energy Gulf Power

10. UTILITY COMPANY TACTICS AGAINST SOLAR CHOICE

11. Phase I Polling research and early development (Done) Phase II Legal: Ballot language and legal review (Done) Phase II Announcement of Amendment (Done) Phase IV Meeting Supreme Court threshold (Done) Phase V Supreme Court Approved (October 2015) Phase V Ballot Threshold Certification Deadline (February, 1 2016) Phase VII Pre-election campaign development (February – July 2016) Phase VIII Campaign to Vote (August – November 2016)

12. Over 200,000 petitions have been gathered. A total of 683,149 petitions are needed to get the Solar Amendment on the ballot

13. Solar Choice: www.FLsolarchoice.orgwww.FLsolarchoice.org Division of Elections: dos.elections.myflorida.com (type in “amendments” in the search bar) Florida Supreme Court: jweb.flcourts.org (click on cases then case number SC-15-780) Contact Alvin Peters, Florida LWV Solar Initiative Director: alvinpeters.pc@gmail.com

14. 1.Sign the petition. 2.Take five or more petitions, get them signed and return them to your distribution point or mail them to the address on the petition. 3. Like h ttps://www.facebook.com/flsolarchoice ttps://www.facebook.com/flsolarchoice 4. Spread the Word- Email, tweet 5. Volunteer.