OREANDA-NEWS. May 24, 2010. This summer, Latvenergo AS is getting ready to add especially green cars to its pool of motor vehicles. The first electric vehicles will first be inspected and tested in everyday operation, with a subsequent decision being made about the possible expansion of the electric vehicle pool.

Based on the insights gathered while operating the electric vehicles, Latvenergo AS intends to share its experience and consult not only city administration and state capital companies, but also governmental bodies on issues related to the use of electric transportation. Considering the scale of the government’s motor pool, it is essential for the companies in the state sector to support the reduction of pollution caused by harmful emissions in the city.

Thus, Latvenergo AS is protecting one of its core values: focussing on socially significant events and minimising the environmental impact of harmful emissions wherever possible, reducing the amount of pollutant emissions into the atmosphere. Therefore, transport is one of the industries in regard to which special attention might help to considerably reduce the amount of harmful emissions into the atmosphere: average estimates show that about 7% of greenhouse gas emissions in the world are caused by light vehicles equipped with internal combustion engines running on petrochemical fuel.

Latvenergo AS has historically been one of the greenest power companies in Europe, generating two-thirds of its total power output from renewable energy sources. Therefore, it is the company’s policy to maintain this high standard of environmental protection. From here, the logical step for Latvenergo is to engage in the promotion of ecologically sound vehicles. The company’s long-term goal is to pioneer the introduction of electric vehicles in Latvia and throughout the Baltics.

We have already noted that on 15 May this year, Latvenergo AS will open the first electric vehicle charging station in Latvia which will initially be located next to Kongresu nams (“Congress Centre”). Considering that the population’s interest and awareness of these technologies is only just budding, the charging station will be transferred to the Sadales tikls AS office at Smerla iela 1 after the public event, so that Latvenergo Group electric vehicles may conveniently use it in future.