From pv magazine 06/2021 At the end of 2020, the three Baltic states had a cumulative installed PV capacity of 800 MW. More than three-quarters of this has been installed in Estonia. Lithuania accounts for around one-fifth, while installations in Latvia are negligible.
Lithuania accounts for around one-fifth, while installations in Latvia are negligible. The need to replace conventional power plants that were recently closed or are to be phased out partly explains the higher motivation for Estonia and Lithuania to expand the use of solar energy.
The first remote solar parks to operate under this scheme were realized in 2020. In addition to the net-metering scheme, Lithuania subsidizes on- and off-grid systems of up to 10 kW per installation, financed by the EU structural fund. Another subsidy for commercial systems in 2020 is also expected to be reissued in 2021.
Latvia’s net-billing scheme was first introduced in 2014 and is much less attractive than the Lithuanian net-metering program. In Latvia, the electricity fed into the grid from the PV producer is not fully compensated. Improvements for microgeneration systems, effective from April 1, 2020, have only slightly increased the scheme’s attractiveness.
Estonia’s auctions have been more successful for solar. A total of 7.2 MW of PV projects below 1 MW was awarded in the first two pilot rounds in 2020. Each for an annual production of 5 GWh, for a feed-in premium on top of the wholesale price, to be paid for 12 years.
In 2018, Estonian company Estiko Energia won a tender for a land plot near Tartu to be used for the construction of a 140-hectare solar park. But delays in clearing the site of thousands of tires were extensive.
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