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Marquette BLP planning solar panel array

MARQUETTE, MI (AP)--   The Marquette Board of Light and Power is clearing land to erect solar panels that can be purchased by customers to get energy from the sun. 

The BLP says it will be cheaper for customers to buy panels in the solar garden than to put them on their house.

Energy created by the panels would be credited to customer accounts. The utility's assistant director for operations, David Lynch, tells The Mining Journal that the panels could cost around $500 each.

As many as 400 solar panels could be generating power by the end of 2016.

Lynch says 14 panels installed on his house five years ago are producing about half his electricity needs.

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