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Biomethane export and Guarantee of Origin: navigating Latvian law
What is a Guarantee of Origin? A Guarantee of Origin (GoO) for gas certifies that a portion of the energy has been sourced from renewable energy resources. According to Section 117.1, Subsection 1 of the Energy Law, GoOs serve this specific purpose. Section 117.3, Subsection 1 further specifies that the transmission system operator (TSO) issues […]
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Ober-Haus: Baltic real estate market still challenging, but opportunities open up
Ober-Haus presents its annual real estate market report for 2024 on the capital cities of the Baltic countries. The report covers the office, retail, warehousing, residential and land markets in each of the capital cities: Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius. Our Baltic-wide team of real estate legal experts prepared legal notes for the report. Baltic real […]
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Patria opens an armoured vehicle production facility in Latvia
We assisted Patria, a company owned by the Finnish and Norwegian states, an international provider of defence, security and aviation life-cycle support services, technology solutions and pilot training, in opening a new armoured vehicle production facility in Valmiera, Latvia. About project We have been a part of the project from the very beginning, and helped […]
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Baltictimes.com: The role and value of local government in promoting wind and solar parks – approvals
It is often asked whether a local government is obliged to give its approval to the installation of an energy supply object on a local government’s property – in particular, to the networks that cross it? The construction of a new energy supply facility (installation of production devices, networks, lines and accessories) usually requires third-party […]
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Baltictimes.com: Latvia opens its retail market for natural gas
The process of opening the natural gas market in Latvia was launched on 3 April 2017, when retail users became able to freely choose their natural gas trader, while continuing to buy it at a regulated price. Most households continued to buy natural gas from the incumbent Latvijas Gāze, controlled by Gazprom, at a regulated […]