Latvia’s Maritime Spatial Plan 2030 identifies five priority offshore wind farm areas, but there is no legal clarity regarding the status of renewables acceleration areas

Latvia’s maritime spatial planning document for 2030 defines five priority research areas for offshore wind farms covering 1,648.76 km² (~6% of the country’s maritime territory). However, these areas have not been officially granted the status of renewables acceleration areas, as required by the Renewable Energy Directive (RED III). As a result, developers have access to geospatial areas. Still, these do not yet provide for accelerated permit procedures or environmental impact assessment facilitations, as required for in RED III within the framework of renewables acceleration areas.


See Maritime Spatial Plan 2030; Interim Assessment of the Maritime Spatial Plan 2030 2019-2030)

Project aiming development of technologies for energy recovery from waste

The work in the project “Innovation of the waste-to-energy concept for the low-carbon economy: Development of novel carbon capture technology for the thermochemical processing of municipal solid waste (CCSW – Carbon Capture and Storage from Waste)” is being initiated.

Scientific paper published

The scientific paper has been published in the international scientific journal “Sarhad Journal of Agriculture”:

Vincevica-Gaile Z., Stankevica K., Klavins M., Setyobudi R.H., Damat D., Adinurani P.G., Zalizar L., Mazwan M.Z., Burlakovs J., Goenadi D.H., Anggriani R., Sohail A. (2021) On the Way to Sustainable Peat-Free Soil Amendments. Sarhad Journal of Agriculture,  37 (Special issue 1), 122-135, https://doi.org/10.17582/journal.sja/2021.37.s1.122.135