Pee Dee Green Power Solar School to be dedicated

Lynches River Electric Cooperative, Santee Cooper and Chesterfield County School District officials will dedicate Chesterfield-Ruby Middle School as a Green Power Solar School at 10:30 a.m. Monday.

Chesterfield-Ruby Middle was the second school in the Pee Dee to be selected to participate in the Green Power Solar Schools initiative, which is designed to encourage interest in the environment and demonstrate the feasibility and limitations of renewable power generation.

Green power is electricity generated by such renewable resources as solar and methane gas from decomposing garbage.

Lynches River Electric Cooperative and Santee Cooper recently announced the formation of the program in the cooperative’s service area.

Savannah Grove Elementary School in Florence School District 1 was selected to participate in the program last year. So far, 13 schools in the state have been chosen to be in the program.