The Florida Legislature has followed California down the path of neutering net metering, offering a slowly falling rate at which utilities are prepared to purchase spare rooftop solar electricity, which culminates at 50% of today’s prices by 2027 onwards and then falls to “utility avoided costs,” after 2029. While the usual kneejerk reactions from solar advocates is clear, utilities say they are being forced by net metering to buy solar power from rooftops at far higher prices than they could buy utility solar. In the end doing something about it slowly over a period of years, and grandfathering everything that happens between now and then, means that there will be no instant impact on solar, but perhaps an eventual impact…