Enefit to procure electricity from Rīgas siltums

Enefit has won in an open tender for the rights to procure electricity from Rīgas siltums’ Imanta CHP plant, which is the third largest CHP plant in Latvia with 47.7 MW power capacity. This makes it the largest cooperation contract signed by Enefit with a local energy producer in recent years.

The cooperation contract provides for the procurement of electrical energy and provision of balancing services over for twelve months. On Monday, 1 August, Enefit will begin procuring energy from the CHP plant in Imanta. It is planned that Enefit will be sold at least 50,000,000 kWh over the course of the next twelve months, as reported by the company.

«We are interested in comprehensive cooperation with participants of the electricity market. This includes procurement of their produced electrical energy. Our experience in procuring energy from local producers dates back to 2008. This, on the other hand, will be our largest cooperation contract yet. Up until now we have been working with smaller CHP plants, wind parks, owners of small hydroelectric dams and solar panel systems,» – explains Enefit chairman Janis Bethers.

«Nevertheless, we always consider all cooperation possibilities with all market participants because we believe the variety of opportunities provided by the market’s infrastructure plays a major role in the development of the entire market. Cooperation with an electricity producer is especially interesting because it allows us to take part in development of different strategies to offer electricity to the market in the most optimal way,» – notes Bethers.

Enefit is an electricity trader working in Latvia. Enefit’s mother company Eesti Energi is the largest energy producer in Baltics States. Enefit was founded in 2006. It is a registered electricity trader in Latvia. It also has cooperation agreements with Augstsprieguma tīkls and Sadales tīkls.

BNN 

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