(CHARLOTTE) -- Duke Energy Renewables has acquired three 1-megawatt commercial solar projects in the southwestern corner of the state. The Charlotte-based utility purchased the projects from ESA Renewables, LLC, which designed and built the generation sites.

The three project are in Murphy, Wingate and Holiness.  The power from each of the solar farms is sold through Blue Ridge Mountain EMC to the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Duke Energy now owns seven commercial solar farms in North Carolina.