{"id":24493,"date":"2025-12-29T17:29:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T16:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/energy-projects\/renewables-networks\/comunidades-energeticas\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T16:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T15:17:35","slug":"energy-communities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/energy-projects\/renewables-networks\/energy-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Energy Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"row\">\r\n<div class=\"col-md-12\">\r\n<h2>Towards citizen energy empowerment<\/h2>\r\n<p>Since 2020, the Basque Energy Agency, Ente Vasco de la Energ\u00eda (EVE) has been providing support for the creation of energy communities in the Basque Country, through a variety of instruments and initiatives. These include <strong>Ekiola<\/strong>, a pioneering initiative involving <strong>local energy communities operating on a cooperative basis<\/strong> to generate and consume renewable energy. Ekiola\u2019s goal is to help promote the energy transition and foster citizen empowerment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The model consists of installing <strong>solar farms<\/strong> at local level; the electricity produced is consumed by members of the cooperative that owns the facility. Each participant purchases a share proportional to its own consumption, thus ensuring stable and competitive prices for decades to come. The plants usually have a capacity of <strong>1 \u2013 1.5 MW<\/strong> and can produce between <strong>1,400<\/strong> and <strong>2,100 MWh per year<\/strong>, meeting the needs of hundreds of households.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>To date, ten of these \u2018Ekiolas\u2019 have been developed in different municipalities. Six are already in operation: <strong>Mendialdea<\/strong> (Arraia-Maeztu) and <strong>Gorbeialdea<\/strong> (Etxebarri-Ibi\u00f1a), <strong>Lautada<\/strong> (Agurain) in Araba; <strong>Ekindar<\/strong> (Azpeitia) and <strong>Leintz-Bailara<\/strong> (Arrasate) in Gipuzkoa; and <strong>Lea-Artibai<\/strong> (Etxebarria) in Bizkaia. A further four are currently under construction: <strong>Egutera<\/strong> (Zumaia), <strong>Urretxu<\/strong> (Urretxu), <strong>Elgoibar &amp; Mendaro<\/strong> (Elgoibar) and <strong>Aiara<\/strong> (Amurrio). <\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>EVE also provides support for other energy community initiatives by individuals and companies in the Basque Country, giving technical and financial backing to the developers by way of subsidies for investments in collective self-consumption facilities, in order to promote citizen participation and local renewable energy generation and help cut carbon emissions. <\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Towards citizen energy empowerment Since 2020, the Basque Energy Agency, Ente Vasco de la Energ\u00eda (EVE) has been providing support for the creation of energy communities in the Basque Country, through a variety of instruments and initiatives. These include Ekiola, a pioneering initiative involving local energy communities operating on a cooperative basis to generate and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22601,"parent":24471,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"templates\/page-with-container.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24493","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24493"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24495,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24493\/revisions\/24495"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24471"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eve.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}