GreenEnergy

Latvia may boost solar power share in electricity to 10% this year

The share of electricity produced in Latvia by solar power plants (SPP) might reach 10% of total production, which would be 3.3% more than last year, LETA learned at the [..]

Terminal to transform into an new-era energy company in Estonia

Terminal, which to date has been known as a fuel retailer, has evolved into the first new-era energy company to offer its customers an all-in-one energy service with a year-round [..]

Ammongas delivers the first truckload of biogenic CO2 to e-methanol facility in Denmark

Ammongas has delivering its first truckload of biogenic CO₂ from Tønder Biogas. The CO₂ will be used for European Energy’s Power-to-X facility in Kassø, where it will play a key [..]

Loan issued for construction of solar plants in Lithuania

The Luminor Bank has announced a EUR 25 million loan to Nala Renewables, which is a global renewable energy investment and development company and has been granted a 45-megawatt (MW) [..]

Swedbank agrees to wind farm loan in Lithuania

Swedbank, which is a leading bank in Lithuania, has approved a loan of EUR 20.7 million to the state-owned energy group Ignitis Group with a repayment schedule of seven years. [..]

Biggest 3 energy firms took nearly third of €75.6 million 2023 renewables subsidies

Nearly one third of the €75.6 million in renewable energy support paid out in 2023 went to Enefit Wind, Enefit Green, and Utilitas Tallinna Elektrijaam, according to incomplete data from [..]

Lithuanian company to participate in offshore wind farm auction

Lithuania’s state-owned energy group Ignitis Group has announced its decision to take part in a second offshore wind farm tender for the right to develop around 700 MW of offshore [..]

Elektrum to build new solar parks in Lithuania

Elektrum Lithuania is an electricity provider that is part of the Latvian energy group Latvenergo, and it announced on Friday that it plans to install three solar parks with a [..]

Largest solar park in Baltics to open in Estonia

The largest solar park in the Baltic States will be opened on October 3 in the village of Kirikuküla in the Lääneranna rural municipality in Pärnu county. The Kirkimäe solar [..]

EU makes progress in ensuring secure and affordable energy for all

The EU has withstood critical risks to its security of energy supply, regained control over the energy market and prices, and accelerated the transition towards climate neutrality. These are the [..]

Lithuania’s Ignitis Group eyes participation in 2nd Baltic Sea offshore wind farm auction

Ignitis Group, Lithuania’s state-owned energy group, still does not rule out participating in the second 700 MW offshore wind park tender in Lithuania, its CEO Darius Maikstenas says. “We are [..]

Solar, wind power capacity up 30 pct to 3 GW in Lithuania – TSO

The capacity of solar and wind power farms operating in Lithuania grew 30 percent in the first eights months to 3 gigawatts (GW), from 2.3 GW at the beginning of [..]

Baltics: Eleport offers lower prices at EV charging stations at night, on weekends

Eleport, one of Central and Eastern Europe’s leading providers of public charging infrastructure for electric cars, is lowering the price of its service simultaneously in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland. [..]

Estonian drivers most prone to use innovative solutions in refueling

People in Estonia are adopting modern digital convenience solutions at a much faster rate compared to residents of Nordic and other Baltic countries, according to statistics for Circle K’s number [..]

Latvenergo invests nearly EUR 6 million in solar power plant in Birzi

Latvian energy group Latvenergo has invested nearly EUR 6 million to develop a new solar power plant in Birzi, Jekabpils municipality, LETA was told at the company. The 11.7 MW [..]

Latvia ups its renewable energy target for 2030 to 60%

Latvia plans to increase the share of renewable energy in final consumption to 60 percent by 2030, according to the updated National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP) for 2021-2023. In [..]

Law to speed up development of offshore wind, solar parks in Estonia

The Estonian parliament on Tuesday passed a bill to amend the Building Code and other laws, initiated by the government, which is aimed at accelerating the deployment of renewable energy. [..]

Lithuania govt: EUR 20 mln from Ignitis Group for wind farm to be used to repay state debt

Twenty million euros paid as a development fee by Ignitis Renewables, a subsidiary of Lithuania’s state-owned energy group Ignitis Grupe (Ignitis Group), after winning the tender for the development of [..]

Ignitis Renewables signs its largest corporate PPA to supply renewable electricity to Umicore’s EV battery materials plant in Poland

Ignitis Renewables, an international green energy company, and Umicore, a leading circular materials technology company, have entered into a 10-year corporate power purchase agreement (PPA) to supply renewable electricity for [..]

EUR 8 million worth solar park to be inaugurated in Carnikava next week

Solar park Carnikavas SES, worth about EUR 8 million, will be inaugurated in Carnikava next Wednesday, November 1, at 10 a.m., as Merito Partners representative Agnese Ruberte informed LETA. Investment [..]

Survey: 72 pct of people in Estonia support establishment of offshore wind farms

Altogether 72 percent of people in Estonia support the construction of offshore wind farms and nearly 70 percent support the expansion of onshore wind energy, it appears from a survey [..]

Estonian President Alar Karis: Estonia, Latvia must efficiently connect their offshore wind farms

In a meeting with Speaker of the Latvian Parliament Daiga Mierina, Estonian President Alar Karis said that Estonia and Latvia must work together to ensure that the offshore wind energy [..]