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November 9, 2016

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Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corp. is building a solar garden on a portion of the Patterson School site. According to Alan Merck, Blue Ridge’s director of key accounts and business development, the project should be finished by Thanksgiving.

Merck said more than 300 Blue Ridge customers already have signed up to get a portion of their energy from one or more of the 392 electricity-generating solar panels that will be installed. The solar site is one of four that Blue Ridge plans to have in its coverage area.