{"title":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Latvia","url":"https://cresques.com/markets/lv/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy","scope":"Latvia","category":{"cpvGroup":"093","label":"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy"},"updated":"2026-11-13","period":{"from":"2023-11-01","to":"2026-11-13"},"answer":"In 2025, public buyers in Latvia awarded 177 supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy through award notices on TED; the 153 of them that state a value (86.4%) add up to €119 million. Latvia imported €330 million of goods in the customs headings matched to electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in 2025 (Eurostat Comext, HS 2716, 2844 and 2612; all buyers, not only public ones), down 15.1% from 2023.","facts":["Since November 2023, 28 companies have won 682 public supply contracts for electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy in Latvia, in 472 award notices from 98 public buyers.","100% of these awards went to companies registered in Latvia.","The five companies that win most often hold 72.9% of all awards.","4.3% of the awards whose notice states the number of tenders received a single bid."],"publicProcurement":{"awards":682,"awardNotices":472,"winningCompanies":28,"publicBuyers":98,"awardsWithValue":592,"awardedValueEur":414084987,"localAwards":682,"foreignAwards":0,"top5Share":0.7287390029325513,"singleBidAwards":29,"awardsWithKnownBids":682,"byYear":[{"year":2023,"awards":20,"awardNotices":12,"awardsWithValue":20,"awardedValueEur":6890104},{"year":2024,"awards":257,"awardNotices":184,"awardsWithValue":204,"awardedValueEur":127113243},{"year":2025,"awards":177,"awardNotices":139,"awardsWithValue":153,"awardedValueEur":118951544},{"year":2026,"awards":228,"awardNotices":137,"awardsWithValue":215,"awardedValueEur":161130097}]},"imports":{"source":"Eurostat Comext, imports from all partners (WORLD)","customsHeadings":[{"hs4":"2716","label":"Electrical energy"},{"hs4":"2844","label":"Radioactive chemical elements and radioactive isotopes, incl. their fissile or fertile chemical elements and isotopes, and their compounds"},{"hs4":"2612","label":"Uranium or thorium ores and concentrates"}],"byYear":[{"year":2023,"valueEur":388753260},{"year":2024,"valueEur":384125557},{"year":2025,"valueEur":330196367}]},"officialContext":{"sentences":["All public purchasing in Latvia — general government spending on goods, services and investment, the measure the OECD and the European Commission use for public procurement — came to €6.65 billion in 2025, 15.2% of GDP (Eurostat). Award notices on TED cover only the contracts above the EU thresholds, so they show who wins, not the whole of that spending."],"allPublicPurchasing":{"year":2025,"valueEur":6646000000,"percentOfGdp":15.2,"percentOfGovernmentExpenditure":33.6,"definition":"General government intermediate consumption + gross fixed capital formation + social transfers in kind purchased from market producers (Eurostat ESA 2010 items P.2 + P.51G + D.632)."},"source":"Eurostat, government finance statistics (gov_10a_main, gov_10a_exp) and GDP (nama_10_gdp), https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/government-finance-statistics/database, retrieved 2026-11-09"},"industryReports":[],"method":"One award per procedure, lot and winning company from live TED contract award notices published since November 2023; a joint procurement counts on every buyer's market; values are awarded amounts only (framework ceilings and estimates never added), converted to euro at the ECB yearly average. Imports: only customs headings (HS 4 digits) whose trade is predominantly the CPV group, listed under imports.customsHeadings, all buyers, not only public ones; a category that no heading isolates has no import figure (imports: null). https://cresques.com/methodology","sources":["TED — Tenders Electronic Daily, © European Union, https://ted.europa.eu","Eurostat, international trade in goods (Comext), © European Union"],"licence":"CC BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","citation":"Cresques, \"Electricity, heating, solar and nuclear energy market in Latvia\", https://cresques.com/markets/lv/093-electricity-heating-solar-and-nuclear-energy, from TED contract award notices (© European Union) and Eurostat Comext, updated 13 November 2026. Licence: CC BY 4.0."}