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The Future of Small-Array Residential Solar

May 4, 2022 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
Home with rooftop solar

Solar energy production by individual homes is likely being thwarted by behind-the-scenes accounting at power companies and the market for solar panels. What do I mean by that? Well, the economics of an individual homeowner to invest in a solar array for their home for a grid-tie system are driven

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Affordable Aerial Photography Copyright Infringement Defense

December 30, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment
CopyCat Legal & Affordable Aerial Photography letters

No one likes to receive a letter from a lawyer, especially one claiming that you’ve done something wrong, like infringing someone’s copyright. That’s exactly what Affordable Aerial Photography, Inc., and its proprietor, Robert Stevens are doing: employing law firms to send demand letters to people who might have a photograph

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Why TECO Pays Less to Solar Net Producers

December 7, 2021 Griffin Klema One comment
Solar panels installed on residential roof

What’s behind the two cents per kilowatt-hour that TECO pays to people who produce more energy than they consume (so-called net producers)? Profiteering, based on my analysis. TECO appears to earn a 50% profit from net solar energy producers (even at current net metering rates) because its two cents “cost

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Background on Net Metering: TECO rate schedule analysis

December 7, 2021 Griffin Klema One comment

This originally appeared in a holistic (i.e. too long) post, and the good stuff was buried at the bottom. I’ve kept the analysis here for anyone who’s interested in how I arrived at my ultimate conclusions in Why TECO Pays Less to Solar Net Producers. The Starting Point: Tariffs Have

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How to Copy-and-Paste Text from a PDF to Word in Seconds and Make It Pretty

December 1, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment

Now that the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure require parties to prepare their responses to written discovery (interrogatories, requests for production, and requests for admissions), lawyers and support staff need to become efficient with creating their response documents based on a PDF-version that was served. Sometimes it can be difficult

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Microsoft overlords screw users again, and how to say “piss off” with a registry change

November 5, 2021 Griffin Klema One comment
Monopoly guy graffiti

My ire with technology companies is well-known to my wife, who hears me scream expletives whenever I encounter inane, self-serving crap peddled (forced) on paying software customers. It’s abhorrent. Microsoft, Facebook, Adobe, all of them. They all do it because it’s part of the software development culture now. It wasn’t

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How to identify the owner of a PO Box or get a person’s change of address

November 1, 2021 Griffin Klema 6 comments

Updated: May 4, 2022.  One problem that people sometimes run into is figuring out who they need to sue or a potential witness’s true identity. It’s usually necessary to identify an individual person you need to sue or subpoena, but the United States post office boxes often don’t let you

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Rules of Civil Procedure Amended Based on My Request

October 8, 2021 Griffin Klema 2 comments
In re amendments to the Florida Rules of Civil Procedure, case no. SC21-120

Florida Bar and Supreme Court adopt rule changes to increase efficiency.

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Florida Bar Exam on Track to Test “Social Justice”?

October 1, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment

As a member of the Florida Bar, the Board of Bar Examiners (FBBE) recently asked me (and all practitioners) to complete a survey of what topics are important in the actual practice of law so that the bar exam will better reflect what should be tested of new lawyers and,

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UpCounsel Gets It Wrong, Again

September 1, 2021 Griffin Klema Leave a comment

So I finish writing a blog post about blatantly false information purveyed by attorney referral service, UpCounsel (which claims it isn’t a referral service, but that’s exactly what it does), and saw, after mere seconds, more false information. This time UpCounsel says that provisional patent rights “are in force between

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