{"id":211377,"date":"2026-03-09T08:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211377\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T08:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T08:55:25","slug":"city-of-lincoln-moves-forward-with-17-9m-solar-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211377\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Lincoln moves forward with $17.9M solar plan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Esplanade<\/p>\n

Esplanade at Turkey Creek is a private 55+ community with more than 400 single-family homes and recreation areas that include pickleball courts, pools, and fitness facilities. At McBean Park nearby, the pickleball courts will be closed until May due to a $17.9 million solar project.<\/p>\n

Scott Lorenzo<\/p>\n

Special to The Bee<\/p>\n

The McBean pickleball courts in Lincoln will be shut down starting March 16 for construction related to a $17.9 million city solar project.<\/p>\n

The project is also tied to the downtown parking closure connected to the City Solar Project approved in April 2024.<\/p>\n

The city of Lincoln entered into a 20-year lease with an initial principal amount of $11.7 million at an interest rate of 4.368%. The average annual lease payment is expected to be $944,482.<\/p>\n

The total cost of the project is estimated at $17.9 million.<\/p>\n

The city aims to save $3.2 million by using federal Inflation Reduction Act funds<\/a> for a prepayment, bringing the total city cost to $14.7 million. Under that scenario, annual lease payments would be $735,155.<\/p>\n

Lincoln estimates the project will generate net savings of $19.2 million over the next 30 years. The savings are expected to come from energy savings, operations and maintenance savings, renewable energy credits, and the Direct Pay Investment Tax Credit.<\/p>\n

The pickleball courts are expected to be covered by a shaded solar panel structure by the end of May, according to the city\u2019s Facebook post.<\/a><\/p>\n

The project plan states that the city will install solar infrastructure at city-owned facilities to improve long-term energy efficiency and reduce operational costs.<\/p>\n

SiteLogic is partnering with the city on the project.<\/p>\n

The solar project also closed the City Hall parking lot on Jan. 8. That lot is expected to remain closed through the end of the month. The Sixth and F streets parking lot will close after construction at the City Hall lot is completed.<\/p>\n


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Nicole Buss<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n

Nicole Buss is The Sacramento Bee\u2019s Roseville\/Placer County watchdog reporter. She previously covered Placer County at Gold Country Media. Buss grew up in Lincoln and is a graduate of Sierra College and Arizona State University.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Esplanade at Turkey Creek is a private 55+ community with more than 400 single-family homes and recreation areas…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[97149,97147,97145,97146,121,123,122,97148],"class_list":{"0":"post-211377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento","8":"tag-city-of-lincoln-energy-savings","9":"tag-city-solar-lease","10":"tag-lincoln-solar-project","11":"tag-mcbean-pickleball-courts","12":"tag-sacramento","13":"tag-sacramento-headlines","14":"tag-sacramento-news","15":"tag-solar-parking-shade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}