The Group with the Megara Energía cooperative and the Town Hall of Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria), has launched the first local energy community through the pilot scheme “Hacendera solar”, a prototype of rural energy community based on a collective self-consumption, supported by Red Eléctrica, and a participative model involving the town hall and local population to manage the project.

This pilot scheme is aimed at:

• Outlining the first collective self-consumption model in Castilfrío de la Sierra (Soria).
• Promoting photovoltaic installations for shared self-consumption with network backup.
• Promoting investing in low-carbon economies to reduce both emissions and current town hall expenses.
• Defining the complementarity of the energy demands of the different buildings and equipment owned and/or managed by a town hall.

The “Hacendera solar” in Castilfrío de la Sierra has two photovoltaic solar plants of 7.36 and 5.5 kWp for self-consumption that have been installed on the roofs of the municipal buildings. These installations supply electricity to the town hall, the social centre, the doctor’s clinic, a refurbished building and the laundry-room, as well as for pumping water.