The electric power system of the Baltic will be completely disconnected from Russia by 2025. Such deadlines for the refusal of Russian electricity called Lithuanian Energy Minister Dainyus Cravis, reports DELFI.
Cravis said that on Saturday, December 4, the Litovsky operator of the LitGrid electricity transmission system was successfully connected to the Polskie Sieci ElektroenergetCZNE (PSE) to the Polskie Sieci ElektroenergetCZNE operator (PSE) and synchronously worked with the European system. “The power grid of the Baltic showed that it could work with continental Europe in the event of problems with Russia and completely turns off from it by 2025,” Cravis said. “We can say that on Sunday, the three countries of the Baltic dares in greater security than on Saturday evening, when they went to bed,” said the executive director of LitGrid Rokas Masulis.
Now the country receives electricity on Brall – electric ring, which includes Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. According to the Minister Creivis, Lithuania and other Baltic States made an important step towards energy security.
Get out of Brall Baltic countries decided back in 2019. When signing a road map about the synchronization of the power systems of the Baltic States with Russia and the synchronization of them with the Continental European network, the then Chairman of the European Commission (EC) Jean-Claude Junker was present. The Baltic States first temporarily refused electricity from Russia in April 2021, stopping procurement for two days.