Electricity

The Latvian State Radio and Television Centre ensures continuous operation of customer hardware located in its facilities, as well as uninterrupted power supply. Customers receive electricity as LVRTC sub-users.

LVRTC purchases electricity from various suppliers on the market. Thanks to stable power consumption at LVRTC facilities, its suppliers are able to offer LVRTC a lower tariff than to other customers. As we want our customers to be able benefit from the above prices, the LVRTC electricity tariff for customers does not include any surcharges: it is exactly the same as the tariff that the LVRTC pays to buy electricity in the market.

Understanding the concerns of broadcasters and electronic communication service providers about the rapid and significant increase in electricity tariffs that we experienced last year,  LVRTC has been actively working to find solutions to reduce the tariff for our clients.

LVRTC has concluded an agreement for the purchase of electricity with a significantly lower tariff, which is fixed for three months. The current contract will allow us to review the tariff once every three months and, according to the electricity price and forecasts, switch to the exchange price or fix the tariff offered by the supplier for the next three months.

As before, in the future the total payment for electricity will consist only of the payment for the received service – electricity, the use of the LVRTC network and the service of the distribution operator, for which LVRTC will not apply a surcharge. At the same time, we draw your attention to the fact that starting from April 1, 2023, the state does not provide compensation for the increase in the price of electricity, but starting from May 1, 2023, the state does not cover the costs of the distribution operator service.

Pricing

The LVRTC will calculate the following total power tariff for customers (sub-users) depending on the metered monthly power consumption of the customer at all LVRTC facilities (prices are shown without VAT):