Environment State Bureau
Rupniecibas Street 23, Riga, LV-1045
Application of the proposed activity for the implementation of the Valmiera-Valka wind
farm project and its corresponding infrastructure in the municipalities of Valmiera and
Valka
In accordance with Section 4 of the Law on Environmental Impact Assessment, Section 7 of the
Law on Procedures for the Construction of Energy Supply Structures Necessary for the
Promotion of Energy Security and Independence, and Paragraph 2 of Cabinet Regulation No.
18 of January 13, 2015, the procedures by which the impact of the proposed activity on the
Environment shall be evaluated and the proposed activity shall be approved.
26 July 2023 Rīga
1. Given name, surname, personal identification number of the initiator (for a legal person
- name and registration number, legal address, telephone number and e-mail address
LLC "Latvijas vēja parki", registration No. : 40203415150, legal address: Pulkveza Brieza
Street 12, Riga, LV-1001, Latvia, email: info@vejaparki.lv
2. Contact information (address and phone number) for the initiator, as well as the legal
entity's properties:
Pulkveza Brieza Street 12, Riga, LV-1001, Latvia. Email: dainis.kanders@latvenergo.lv;
phone: +371 67 728 484, + 371 29131864.
3. Anticipated Action (object) Name
Implementation of the "Valmiera-Valka" wind power plant park and its associated infrastructure
in the Plāņi civil parish of the Valmiera municipality and the Vijciems and Valka civil parishes
of the Valka municipality.
4. Information regarding the description of the physical characteristics of the intended
activity, including information regarding the amount, the preparation for the activity
prior to the commencement of the activity, demolition works and solutions thereof (if the
intended activity includes such), types of technologies to be used, necessary infrastructure
objects (e.g. access road, car park, fences, sewage treatment plants, water supply, artetic
boreholes, auxiliary boreholes), and necessary infrastructure objects (e.g. access road, car
park, fences, sewage treatment)
The activity provided for by LLC "Latvijas vēja parki" (hereinafter - the initiator) is the
implementation of the wind farm and related infrastructure project in the Plāņi civil parish of
Valmiera municipality and the Vijciems and Valka civil parishes of Valka municipality. Annex
1 of the application must be accompanied by a map of the intended operating area that does not
depict the planned locations of wind turbines. There are plans to construct up to 60 wind
turbines at the wind park, where each wind station's nominal capacity could reach 8 MW. The
initiator will conduct an environmental impact assessment (EIA) in accordance with the
Environmental Impact Assessment Law and the Law on Procedures for the Construction of
Energy Supply Buildings Necessary to Promote Energy Security and Independence. The total
number of wind farms to be installed is intended to be evaluated during the EIA process, taking
into account the requirements of regulatory enactments for the location of wind farms, the
possibility of coordinating the determination of protection zones with legal possessors of
adjacent immovable properties, the available transmission system capacity, the results of the