Note: this is 2006 tour info. Stay tuned for updates on 2007!

Lincoln City/Newport

Lincoln County Solar Energy Tour
Date: Sunday, October 8
Location: Lincoln City, public parking lot on corner Hwy 101 and NW 17th Street
Contact: Lincoln County Sustainability Coalition, Cindy Ashey - (541) 270-0588

With the help of the Solar Energy Association of Oregon and in association with the ASES National Solar Tour, the Lincoln County Sustainability Coalition will host the first ever Lincoln County Solar Tour. It is expected to be a fun interactive way to learn about solar systems and see how habitat restoration is done first hand. The Lincoln County Solar Energy Tour will be kicked off by a Sustainability Summit on October 6 & 7th, check out the Lincoln Sustainability Coalition's website for more details.

The tour will begin in Lincoln City, meeting in the large public parking lot on the corner of Highway 101 and NW 17th Street (Maxwell's Restaurant is on the corner and the Bijou Theatre is across the street). Tour attendees will see a house equipped with a grid-tied 18 panel 1500 Watt PV array with a dual axis tracking system, a cabin completely off the grid, and a restaurant using solar panels and other sustainable practices. After lunch featuring food from our local farms, we will tour 2-4 habitat stream restoration projects at various stages of development.