The Jekabpils county energy community is a municipal initiative centered on a local school, sharing solar power with the county’s sports hall. It offers a practical start-up model for how local authorities elsewhere in Latvia might establish similar shared-solar arrangements between public buildings.
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Jekabpils (LV)
19 August 2026
Turning a school’s rooftop solar into savings for two building.
Solar panels are installed on the school’s roof, with production first covering the school’s own consumption and charging its battery. Any surplus is shared with the community’s other member, the Jekabpils sports hall, by being sold to an electricity trader, who pays the community monthly for it. Once its own bills are covered, the community can then decide whether to use that surplus income to help cover members’ energy and grid bills.
Numbers at a glance
- 60 kW installed solar capacity, with a 30 kWh battery.Â
- Estimated annual production of 57 350 kWh/year.
- Estimated annual savings of €10,000/year.
- 3.08 t COâ‚‚ avoided per year.
- Total establishment cost of €54,899.
The journey of the Jekabpils Pilot Site
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Where things stand
With panels and battery installed and generating, Jekabpils sits alongside Jelgava as one of the two working Latvian municipal pilots – testing, in practice, how surplus solar power can be shared between two public buildings and turned into savings for both.
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Project typeCore Project
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ImplementationNovember 2023 - October 2026
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StatusOngoing
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Contribution to EUSBSRPolicy Area Energy
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Target groups
- Interest group
- Local public authority
- National public authority
- Small and medium enterprise
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