OREANDA-NEWS. Latvenergo publishes 9 month results: Group has completed an important part of the Kurzeme Ring transmission line connection and outside Latvia has supplied almost by half more electricity if comparing to the previous period.

The new Kurzeme Ring 330 kV electricity transmission line connection Grobi?a- Ventspils has been launched, thus significantly increasing power supply safety in Kurzeme region and Latvia as a whole as well enabling future opportunity to use the Lithuania -Sweden marine cable NordBalt and access to the Nordic electricity market. Due to focused electricity trade activities the total electricity volume supplied by Latvenergo Group abroad in 9 months of 2014 has been increased by 47% and comprises more than one-third of retail electricity supply. The number of customers in neighboring countries reached nearly 34 thousands.