Author: Aleksejs Djukarevs

At SKONTO GROUP and LATVIJAS ENERGOCELTNIEKS, one of our greatest  values are people. For several years now, as the holiday season comes, we organise various activities and creative workshops for our employees and their children. This year, Santa Claus and his team of elves had to adapt their operations to bring joy to our homes. At the end of 2020, the company’s employees and their families participated in the campaign “A Satchel of Good Thoughts”, making happy and creative works of art which now continue to inspire the LEC team on a daily basis and remind us of the good in the world.

LEC has embarked on a project at Sweden’s largest wind power plant, laying 33kv cable lines more than 50 km and connecting the wind turbines to a substation – the first such project in the company’s history. Sweden’s largest wind farm is located in the country’s far north, with mountainous terrain made up of several layers of earth, which posed an extra work challenge. The works started in October 2019 and are projected to end in summer 2020. By embarking on this and other projects outside Latvia, the company continues to pursue its commitment to expand its scope of international projects, especially, in Scandinavia.

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Limited Liability Company Latvijas Energoceltnieks is experiencing strong growth in German growing broadband network installation market as well as in North European energy transmission markets. This will be the trend also in coming years.
Latvijas Energoceltnieks is one of the Skonto Group compamies listed in the db.lv TOP 500 which summarizes the largest companies in Latvia in terms of net turnover in 2018, as well as ranking by region and sector. SIA ‘’Latvijas Energoceltnieks’’ increasing its turnover by 7,31% from 2017, ranks 149th on the list with a turnover of 56,95 million euros. Cogratulations the company with good performance in 2018 and wish further growth.

In autumn 2018 “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” implemented the assembly works of the ADSS cable, which provides the construction of power transmission lines (PTL) in the 110 kV section Tume-Brocēni, the construction of 110 kV PTL in the section Brocēni-Rudbārži, as well as the construction of 330 kV PTL in the section Brocēni-Grobiņa”. The Agreement between “Merks” and “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” was signed in July 2018.

In general “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” implemented ADSS optical construction works in PTLs of the following length:

110 kV GL No. 151 Tume-Brocēni – 13 250 km

110 kV GL No. 155 Brocēni-Rudbārži – 2 359 km

330 kV GL No. 323 Brocēni-Grobiņa – 2 160 km

Within the project “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” implemented the development of a full technical solution, which included:

• Informing of the land owners about the planned works;
• Organisation of outages in the 330/110 kV network, and in the case of necessity in lines of lower voltage, to implement the assembly works of the ADSS optical cable;
• Fixation of 110 kV reinforced concrete supports with additional bindings for the reinforced concrete intermediate supports to function as anchor type supports for the fixation of the ADSS cable;
• After the assembly works the fixation works of the ADSS optical cable in the anchor supports and intermediate supports;
• Construction of the ground optical cable between 110 kV overhead lines No. 151 Tume-Brocēni, No. 155 Brocēni-Rudbārži and 330 kV overhead lines No. 323 Brocēni-Grobiņa and fixation as support structures;
• Assembly works of the connecting couplings;
• Assembly works of the end couplings in the substation control room in communication devices.

In addition to the works to be implemented “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” also had to provide the coordination and location of the possible access roads, agreeing with state institutions, private land owners and legal land owners. Coordination was required, because the majority of 110 kV power transmission lines are not constructed along the roads and access locations, but quite the contrary – along fields, forests, swamped locations and other places, that are hard to reach.

On this year’s December 7 Raimonds Vējonis, the President of Latvia, came to Rezekne during his regional work visit where he met students and teachers from the Rezekne Technical School and experienced the premises of the Rezekne Technical School and the new building of the sports hall.

The ground floor of the new building will house a multifunctional hall, stage, dressing rooms, showers, toilet, and medical center; whereas the first floor will incorporate a hall, balconies, work premises of trainers, gym, and rooms for interest education.

In May 2017, a contract for the construction of the Multifunctional Hall at 11a Varonu Street, Rezekne was signed by LLC “Latvijas Energoceltnieks” and Rezekne Technical School.

The project was implemented over the course of two stages. First stage – new building for the Rezekne Technical School’s Academic Studies and Food Studies Laboratory. Second stage – reconstruction, heat insulation and window replacement of the Rezekne Technical School’s Dormitory.

Currently final works are taking place – finishing of ceilings, walls, floors and staircases (painting, tiling, laying linoleum; the hall’s floor now has solid ash parquet), new protective railings and radiators are installed in the hall, as well as sinks with mixing faucets, toilet-bowls and shower mixing faucets and luminaires. The hall now has basketball hoop structures, game scoreboard and claiming ropes.

All construction works at the new building of the Rezekne Technical School are scheduled to be finished by 4th quarter of 2018.

Overall costs of the project: EUR 3,968,957.00, including funding from the European Regional Development Fund in the amount of EUR 3,373,613.45 and State budget funding in the amount of EUR 595,343.55.

Latvijas Energoceltnieks, Ltd. (LEC) is participating in the implementation of the European Regional Development Fund’s 46.7 million EUR project No. 2.1.1.0/16//I/001 “Improvement of Accessibility of Electronic Communications Infrastructure in Rural Areas” which envisages connection of the current optical network infrastructure of the Latvian State Radio and Television Centre and construction of new interest connection points in Latgale.

The work on the project first started in July this year and includes installation of the communication ducting, assembly of the couplers, and optical cable blowing and assembly operations. The optical cable infrastructure set-up operations take place in Latgale, in the vicinities of Rezekne, between Naudaskalns and Gaigalava, including Rugaji and Lazdukalns as well.

The cable installation operations take place within the zone of the Latvian national roads, which significantly facilitates the access and driving to the facility, and additional bars for the drilling system are used during them to enable horizontally controlled drilling at distances up to 315 meters, thus facilitating access to many difficult-to-access locations.

The multifunctional service building serves the needs of Alūksne Municipal Agency “ALJA”

The building includes three main groups of premises:

1. Office space – workspace with a conference rooms, manager’s office, WC, shower, service room and garage
2. Public space – WC for visitors and WC for visitors with disabilities, locker room and shower
3. Lease space – lease space with service rooms and WC

Works:

• Laying monolith reinforced concrete foundation, walls and coverings
• Construction of the operational roof, allowing the roof to be used as a viewing platform for visitors, as well as platform for judges and safety personnel
•  Construction of HPL slabs and glass façade
• Interior finishing works – tiling, painting, installation of HPL plates
• Construction of internal and external engineering networks – electricity, low current network, water supply, heating, ventilation
• Landscaping – adjacent concrete and wooden plan terraces, multi-level seating area, a lake deck constructed from concrete pontoons and wooden piles, paved paths, greenery