Electricity provides us with heat, light and comfort. It is a resource, which has to be used responsibly. The modern trends show that more often customers want to generate green energy themselves.

In 1997, AS “Latvenergo” established the Energy Efficiency Centre, which was transformed into the Elektrum Energy Centre in 2025. Over the years, the Centre has built extensive experience in the energy sector and in educating the public about energy. Today, its focus has expanded from energy saving and energy efficiency to a broader perspective on the world of energy, its development and future opportunities.

The Elektrum Energy Centre is an educational destination in Jūrmala, where everyone is invited to explore energy and its role in our everyday lives and society in an engaging and practical way. Through educational programmes, interactive and experience-based activities, the Centre promotes energy literacy and helps people understand energy processes and solutions in a simple and accessible way, better navigate energy-related topics and make more informed decisions.

The Elektrum Energy Centre offers:

• For schoolchildren and children – educational programmes from preschool to secondary school, where games, practical tasks, experiments and team activities are used to explore the world of energy while developing knowledge and skills in line with the “Skola 2030” curriculum.
  
  
• For young people and students – opportunities to gain a deeper understanding of the energy sector, its development, technologies and future solutions, as well as to explore energy-related professions and career opportunities.
  
  
• For teachers and educators – teaching materials and support, educational lectures and events that provide up-to-date information on STEAM opportunities and the energy sector, while supporting professional development.
  
  
• For families and other interested visitors – educational activities and events that offer an engaging and practical way to explore energy, its use and its role in everyday life, while gaining knowledge that helps people make better choices about energy use at home and in everyday life.
  
  
• For businesses and professionals – lectures and training, seminars and discussions on current energy efficiency, sustainability and other energy-related topics, helping participants better understand energy processes and assess solutions relevant to their business.
  
  

The Elektrum Energy Centre is a place where knowledge becomes experience, helping people understand the role of energy and how the energy sector is evolving today and what opportunities it may bring in the future.

Visits to the Energy Centre and participation in its educational activities are free of charge.

In recent years, we can hear the combination of words “climate change” at every turn, and this issue is on the agenda of politicians around the world. What is the contribution of Latvenergo, a company, for which care of the surrounding environment is one of cornerstones of sustainable development, in order to operate in a more climate-friendly manner?

Latvenergo AS has already accomplished a lot and continues activities to improve efficiency and increase the use of RES, thus reducing CO₂ emissions, and on its own initiative supports replenishment of fish resources, makes artificial spawning nests for fish and cleans rivers in cooperation with environment experts, biologists and hydrobiologists.

Each year Latvenergo releases more than 8 million juvenile fish of various species – Baltic salmon, sea trout, zander, whitefish, pike and lamprey – in the Daugava River basin.

Placement of artificial spawning nests for fish in hydropower plant reservoirs facilitates preservation and replenishment of fish stocks; therefore, each year artificial fish spawning nests made by more than 400 employees of Latvenergo Group are placed in the Daugava River near Ikšķile and Kaibala, in which at least 20 million fish eggs are spawned.

Over several years many tributaries of the Daugava River have suffered from fallen trees, beaver dams, fords created by deposits and water plants; therefore, an initiative for cleaning of rivers of the Daugava River basin was initiated in 2017 - the Vedze River was cleaned from deposits and fallen trees, and a project of cleaning the Pērse River continues.

Latvenergo generates electricity at its power plants with zero (at hydropower plants) or the lowest amounts of CO₂ emissions (at combined heat and power plants). Daugava HPPs with zero emissions ensure the status of Latvia as a green country, whereas the reconstruction of CHPPs has allowed to achieve the lowest amounts of emissions.

Modern technologies allow electricity users to become active market participants, who generate, consume and sell to others the generated, but not consumed electricity.

Currently, the role of energy consumers in the world and in Latvia changes. At the moment, increasingly more customers turn from passive electricity recipients into active users, who generate green energy by using solar panels, selling the energy accumulated by electric vehicle batteries, but not consumed by themselves, and using the opportunities offered by micro network, thus engaging in the market.