Last update: 23 August 2022
Buildings in the content of the Plan (extracted from the REC/E3G Latvian Country Profile)
Latvia’s draft NRRP included measures for €1.65bn in total, with the final request raised to €1.82bn. The draft Plan foresaw €139m investment in the buildings sector (~8.4% of the total,). This value increased significantly to €230m (12.6%, see chart below) in the final Plan. It is allocated to energy efficiency improvement and to renewable energy technologies, with the highest share going to businesses (€120m, as part of a combined financial instrument), followed by apartment buildings (€57m), municipal buildings and infrastructure (€29m), and central government, including historical buildings, (€24m). Energy efficiency measures also cover other elements of the energy system, with €80 million allocated to the modernisation of transmission and distribution networks.
Read the full Latvian Country Profile here.
Disbursements’ timeline
- 2021-09-10: European Commission disburses €237 million in pre-financing to Latvia.
- 2022-02-16: Latvia and the European Commission sign the Operational Arrangements.
- 2022-06-17: Latvia submitted the first payment request of €201 million (net of pre-financing). This first payment request relates to 9 milestones covering several reforms.
- 2022-07-29: The Commission published a positive preliminary assessment of the satisfactory fulfilment of 9 milestones in relation to the first payment request.
Indicative timeline for future payment requests (based on the signed operational arrangements)
| Payment Request for the First Instalment | EUR 231.000.000 | Q2 2022 |
| Payment Request for the Second Instalment | EUR 503.000.000 | Q2 2023 |
| Payment Request for the Third Instalment | EUR 419.000.000 | Q2 2024 |
| Payment Request for the Fourth Instalment | EUR 293.000.000 | Q2 2025 |
| Payment Request for the Fifth Instalment | EUR 168.000.000 | Q2 2026 |
| Payment Request for the Sixth Instalment | EUR 212.000.000 | Q3 2026 |
Table of buildings' measures (categorised under their specific instalments)
The renovation-related targets and milestones expected by Q3 2022 are:
| Number of Milestones | Name of Milestone | Value of whole measure | Indicator | Progress & Comments |
| Milestone 1 | Improving the energy efficiency of multi-apartment buildings and transition to renewable energy technologies (1.2.1.1.i.l) | €57 million | Entry into force of support programme for improving energy efficiency in residential buildings | Unclear
(Linked to instalment 2) |
| Milestone 2 | Increasing energy efficiency in business, in the form of a combined financial instrument (1.2.1.2.i) | €121 million
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Entry into force of the Support Programme for Entrepreneurial Energy Efficiency | Unclear
(Linked to instalment 2) |
| Milestone 3 | Improving the energy efficiency of public sector buildings, including historical buildings (1.2.1.4.i.l) | €24 million | Entry into force of support programme for improving energy efficiency in national and historical buildings approved by the Cabinet of Ministers | Unclear
(Linked to instalment 2) |
| Milestone 4 | Resilience and continuity of the long-term social care service (3.1.2.3.i) | Requirements of the design task and standard construction design project developed for the provision of long-term care services close to family environment | Unclear
(Linked to instalment 2) |
All information has been extracted from the Study: “E3G. (2021). Renovate2Recover: How transformational are the National Recovery Plans for Buildings Renovation?” and the European Commission’s Recovery and Resilience Scoreboard.