Within the air sector, demand for pollution control technologies is moderate. In the water supply sector, overall demand was moderate. High demand was identified for treatment processes. The demand for wastewater technologies is also moderate. These technologies were all found to be in high demand for the power generation sector, while in other industrial sectors demand is expected to increase in the same technology areas.
Municipalities tend to be the main end-users of environmental technologies in almost all sectors.
The energy sector and the chemical industry are other major end-users. In general, local environmental technologies meet the current Latvian regulations, although not all of these are able to meet the stricter EU requirements. Some local environmental businesses have experienced success in the local market as well as in the foreign market. Approximately one quarter of those local companies interviewed stated their income share from foreign business to be more than 10 percent. Generally speaking, environmental technology buyers gave preference to local products and producers.