Water energy

The volume of electricity generation depends on the flow rate in the Daugava River. After closing the Ignalina NPP at the end of 2009, the situation in the electric energy market in the Baltic States has changed.

Latvia is no longer the only state in this region with insufficient amount of electric energy generated in its power plants. At the moment, Lithuania is also importing electric energy. Therefore, basically the suppliers from Estonia and Russia compete for supplying electric energy to Latvia.

In 2011 production of electricity reached 6093 Gigawatt hours (GWh), which is 8% less than last year. 50.5% of the total volume of electricity was produced from renewable energy resources (water, wind, biogas and biomass power plants).
The total consumption of energy in 2011 in Latvia comprised 7338 GWh, which is a decrease of 2% as compared to 2010. Consumption in industry grew by 5%, while consumption in households declined by 8.6% (data of the A/S Latvenergo).