Its data show that on September 3 and September 4, 3 gigawatt hours (GWh) were pumped from Russia to Latvia, on September 5 – 4 GWh, and on September 6, 7 and 8 – 11 GWh of gas.
“Conexus Baltic Grid” indicates that natural gas from Russia enters Latvia through the Luhama gas pumping station located on the Latvian-Estonian border.
Latvia, like Lithuania and Estonia, stopped gas imports from Russia at the beginning of April, refusing to comply with the Kremlin’s demand to pay for them in Russian rubles. However, the importer Latvijas Gaze resumed this import in the summer, stating that it does not buy gas directly from its largest shareholder Gazprom, which owns a little more than a third of its shares, and pays for it in euros. At that time, Latvijas Gaze refused to name the intermediate supplier.
At the end of July, Gazprom officially announced that it was suspending the supply of gas to Latvia “due to violations of the conditions for taking gas”, but it was supplied again on August 5-11.
In July, the Latvian Parliament (Saeima) adopted amendments to the energy law, which will completely ban the import of Russian gas from January 1, 2023.
In 2021, Russian made up about 90 percent. natural gas imported by Latvia.
Source: BNS
