PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF LATVIA

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PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION OF LATVIA

• LICENSING ISSUES
• Baltic Energy Regulatory Workshop, Pärnu 5-6 June
  2003

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Licensing policy and main targets

• To establish common, clear and understandable
  rules for all providers of public services
• To ensure customers of safe and reliable
  supplying with energetic resources
• To create favourable market environment in public
  services area for suppliers and customers

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Criteria for licensing in District heating
sector

• Common generation of electricity and heat with
  capacity more than 1MW

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Criteria for licensing in Gas
sector

• natural gas transmission, storage, distribution
  and sales
• liquid gas filling in tanks and cisterns for
  sales purpose, distribution and sales

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Criteria for licensing in Electricity sector

• generation power plants with capacity more than
  1 MW
• transmission voltage level 110 kV and more
• distribution voltage level between 1 kV and 110
  kV
• sales amount per year more than 4000MWh

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Issued licenses in Gas sector

• 70 licensed companies
• natural gas 4 licenses (transmission,
• storage, distribution and sales) for monopoly
  Latvijas Gaze
• liquide gas 69 licenses for sales, 43 licenses
  for distribution, 31 license for storage and
  filling

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Issued licenses in Electricity sector

• 43 regulated companies
• Generation 37 regulated
  
  companies, 53 licenses
• 37 licenses for electricity and heat generation
  in CHP plants total capacity for electricity
  generation 594,2 MW

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Issued licenses in Electricity sector

• Generation
• 2 licenses for electricity generation in
  hydro-power stations
• - Daugavas HES - capacity 1540 MW
• - Spridzenu HES - capacity 1,2 MW
• 14 licenses for electricity generation in wind
  farms - capacity 24,3 MW

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Issued licenses in Electricity sector

• ? Transmission 1 license for monopoly
  Latvenergo
• ? Distribution 7 regulated companies, 13
  licenses
• ? Sales 6 regulated companies, 12 licenses

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Market environment in energy sector

• Liquid gas 5 substantial new entrants, 50
  market share
• Independent energy generators CHP plants, HP
  plants, wind farms 4 market share
• Distribution and sales of electricity less than
  1 market share for independent companies

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Thank you for attention !