The latest from shopping network (QVC): solar power (NC)

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http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/1326633.html

The home shopping network that sells just about everything is now selling solar energy generated by North Carolina sunshine.

QVC is operating the state's largest solar energy farm at its distribution facility near Rocky Mount. The QVC solar project is selling the electricity it generates to N.C. Electric Cooperatives, the Raleigh organization that supplies power in the state's smaller towns and rural areas.

The 1 megawatt solar farm generates electricity for about 150 homes. It operates only when the sun is shining, an average of about six hours a day.

QVC proposed the solar farm this year to its utility, Edgecombe-Martin County Electric Membership Corp., a cooperative that serves more than 11,000 customers east of Raleigh. That local cooperative then passed the proposal on to the umbrella group in Raleigh to discuss terms.

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