Belarus ready to build new power line to supply electricity to Latvia

MINSK, 4 February (BelTA) – Belarus is ready to build a new power line to supply electricity to Latvia provided the project will recoup the investment, BelTA learned from Belarusian Deputy Energy Minister Vadim Zakrevsky on 4 February.

The official said: “We have a power line connecting Belarus and Latvia but it goes via Lithuania. But we are ready to build a separate power line from Belarus to Latvia. Economic feasibility is the key. This piece of infrastructure needs to offset the investment.”

If the volume of mutual deliveries is insignificant, respectively the infrastructure will not recoup the investment. “Our job is to predict clearly the volume of interstate transmission to one side and to the other,” he explained.

Previously BelTA quoted Prime Minister of Belarus Sergei Rumas as saying that Belarus is going to discuss the possibility of direct electricity deliveries without brokers with Latvia.