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On October 13, Latvian TSO's "Augstsprieguma tīkls" (AST) made a successful debut in the capital markets by issuing a 5.25-year Green Bond in the amount of EUR 100 million, which is the first issue under the first AST bond issue programme of EUR 160 million. The notes were issued at a fixed annual interest rate (coupon) of 0.…

Market

The Council of the Public Utilities Commission of Latvia on 30th September 2021 has expressed support for the Latvian and Estonian transmission system operators (AS Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST) and Elering AS) developed Methodology on cross-zonal capacity calculation and allocation with Russia (hereinafter - the Methodology) su…

Development

JSC "Augstsprieguma tīkls" together with other Baltic transmission system operators (TSOs) operate in a common model for balancing of power systems of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania as of 18 January 2018. To ensure this, the common Baltic coordinated balancing area (Baltic CoBA) w…

Development

On July 21, 2021, Augstsprieguma tīkls AS, together with other Baltic TSOs, published a joint document on the updated Baltic CoBA Imbalance Settlement Rules. It conforms to the methodology established in the “All TSOs’ proposal to further specify and harmonize imbalance settlement in accordance with Article 52(2) of the Commi…

Development

Integration of renewables into the Latvian electricity system and replacing the generation of large thermal power plants will require developing additional generation and balancing capacities in the next ten years, concluded in the annual assessment report published by JSC Augstsprieguma tīkls (AST).

A shortage of gen…