NIB, Luminor and NORD/LB to co-finance a 148 MWp solar farm in Latvia
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB), Luminor Bank and NORD/LB have agreed to co-finance a 148 MWp solar farm in the Ventspils municipality. The project is developed by Stelo Orienta SIA, a subsidiary of European Energy, a Danish renewable energy company.The overall financing amounts to EUR 68 million. NIB’s EUR 28 million loan is supported by the European Union under NIB’s InvestEU Framework Operation on Clean Energy Transition. This is NIB’s first InvestEU loan in Latvia.
The financing will increase the overall solar generation capacity in Latvia, which currently stands at 600 MW. Latvia’