Latvia has 5 power plants in this atlas, with 2,537 MW of reported capacity. The largest listed plant is Plavinas HPP (894 MW, hydro; current status unverified). By number of records the most common technologies are hydro and gas. Grid operators listed here include AST. Electricity is regulated by SPRK. Renewables supplied 73.5% of its electricity in 2024.
Reported capacity is the rated size of the listed installations, not electricity being produced now. Source dates and coverage differ, so newer facilities may be absent and historical records may remain.
Grid operators and electricity market in Latvia
Liberalised marketCompetitive generation and retail
Daugava hydropower plants supply much of demand. Latvia synchronised with Continental Europe in February 2025. Power is traded through Nord Pool.
Part of the synchronous grid of Continental Europe, the largest interconnected grid in the world by customers, coordinated by the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity.
What does “Liberalised market” mean?
Generators sell into a wholesale market, an independent operator runs the transmission grid, and households can choose their electricity supplier. Networks stay regulated monopolies because building parallel power lines makes no sense.
References reviewed 2026-09-29. Logos are each organisation’s own site icon, shown to identify it. Selected organisations, not an exhaustive list of licence holders.
Latvia lies on the Baltic Sea around the Gulf of Riga. Forested lowlands and the Daugava river corridor define much of the country’s physical geography.
Capital
Riga
Languages
Latvian
Major cities
Riga, Daugavpils, Liepāja
Geographic reference: European Union country profile. Boundaries and names are for orientation; language listings are introductory, not exhaustive. Banner map: Natural Earth boundaries (public domain) with this atlas’s station records.
The source inventory contains 5 records for Latvia. Select a fuel in the map to explore where its stations are located, then open a record to inspect reported capacity and provenance.
Inventory coverage
5 source records. 0 reported operational in their source snapshot; this is not live status.
Browse 5 source records, ordered by reported capacity. Ownership and operating status describe the source snapshot; they may have changed. Missing information is shown explicitly.
