Energy efficiency home upgrades can help lower your monthly energy bills—but they can also be costly.  Blue Ridge Electric Membership Corporation is now offering members a way to finance qualifying energy efficiency improvements with their Energy Saver Loan program, part of the cooperative’s family of Powerful Solutions energy efficiency and renewable energy programs being introduced in 2016. Qualified members may borrow up to $7,500 and repay it in installments on their monthly electric bill. Blue Ridge Electric is also working with community action organizations to help lower income qualified members make weatherization and heating improvements to their homes at no cost. Blue Ridge Electric serves some 74,000 members in Caldwell, Watauga, Ashe, Alleghany, Wilkes, Avery and Alexander counties. Learn more at BlueRidgeEMC.com.