10.07.2020
About the company
Ltd. “Salaspils Siltums” is a modern heat supply company that provides district heating in Salaspils and Saulkalne. The company’s activities are aimed at a long-term and environmentally friendly development so that customers would be provided with a reliable heat supply for the lowest possible price.
Salaspils municipality citizens have the possibility of keeping up with and analyzing the heat consumption of their house.
85%
of citizens use district heating
60 000
MWh/per year
Amount of thermal energy carried out
27 MW
Maximum heat load of Salaspils consumers
Rewards and sertificates
12.03.2020
Salaspils Siltums earns GRAND PRIX of Annual Building Award 2019
02.12.2019
ISO 50001 certificate
25.10.2017
“Salaspils Siltums” earns the worldwide Excellence Award in the energy sector
Myths about heat supply
Myth No.1
By signing individual heat contracts, Salaspils Siltums can receive a fee for the consumed heat energy from each apartment separately, as Latvenergo does, for example.
Ltd. “Salaspils Siltums” supplies heat to the heat meter of an apartment house – the border of ownership. Authorized representatives (house managers) elected by the residents of the house are responsible for further distribution of heat energy to hot water and heating and redistribution to apartments. According to the house’s calculation methodology, the house manager shall perform the distribution as mentioned above of the consumed heat energy, issue bills, perform collection work, and pay to “Salaspils Siltums” for the house’s heat consumption for the previous month by the 20th.
Maintenance and upkeep of the internal heat supply system (that belongs to all the residents of a house) are also incorporated into the house manager’s duties. Residents pay the house manager for all these and other home maintenance works.
Myth No.2
Debts of non-payers increase the heat tariff in the city
According to the heat energy supply service tariff calculation methodology, the district heating company calculates the heat energy tariff. The methodology has been developed by an independent state institution – the Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The heat supply company submits its tariff calculations together with all documents justifying the costs for approval to PUC. PUC checks the reasonableness of expenses, the accuracy of calculations and approves the heat energy tariff.
Paragraph 15 of the Methodology states: The draft tariff does not include debtors’ costs (provisions for doubtful debtors).