The Kentucky Public Service Commission has allowed East Kentucky Power Cooperative, Inc. to offer its customers the opportunity to use solar power without putting solar panels on their roofs. The order, issued November 22, approved an EKPC proposal that will allow customers to lease one or more of the 32,300 panels in a large-scale solar electric generating facility the utility will build in Clark County. Customers will pay a one-time fee of $460 per panel for a 25-year lease, with electricity generated used to offset a customer’s electric usage. The $17.7 million facility will be built next year and is expected to begin producing power in November 2017.