The Government on Wednesday gave the green light to the Energy Ministry’s roadmap for hydrogen development in Lithuania in 2024-2050. The ministry was obligated to implement the roadmap in cooperation with state institutions and social partners.
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The Energy Ministry says it will allocate a further EUR 12 million in the coming weeks for a new call after home owners in a day reserved the entire EUR 8 million sum of support for installing solar power plants.
Lithuania has increased its electricity generation last year, mainly due to a double growth in the production from renewable energy sources, the Energy Ministry says.
The Seimas on Thursday passed a law to introduce faster synchronisation of Lithuania’s power grid with West Europe.
The Lithuanian government approved on Wednesday the Energy Ministry's proposal to postpone the deadline for completing the third and final stage of the liberalization of the country's electricity market for three years until January 2026.
Seeking full energy independence from Russian gas and in response to Russia's energy blackmail in Europe and the war in Ukraine, Lithuania has completely given up Russian gas, the Lithuanian Energy Ministry says.
Lithuania's Energy Ministry has filed with a Lithuanian court a new lawsuit worth over 240 million euros against French energy group Veolia and Icor, a Lithuanian business group owned by natural persons, and persons related to these companies for the compensation of damage done to Lithuania, Vilnius...
The Jonava-based fertilizer producer Achema's business prospects were not taken into account when the Klaipeda-based LNG terminal's maintenance model was changed, an adviser to the Lithuanian president says.
Lithuania plans to increase local power production after the country's government on Monday backed a proposal to hold technology-neutral power auctions, with the first one planned in late 2020.
A comprehensive action plan for the planned synchronization of Lithuania's electricity system with that of Continental Europe has been submitted to the Cabinet for discussion, the Energy Ministry said on Thursday.
Lithuania has turned to the Supreme Court of Sweden, appealing against Sweden's Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the Stockholm arbitration's 2016 ruling, unfavorable to Lithuania, in the country's dispute with Russian gas giant Gazprom.
Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis expects that the Energy Ministry's row with Achemos Grupe over plans to transfer Klaipedos Nafta's LNG business to a separate company will not prevent the government from taking decisions that are necessary for cutting the LNG terminal-related burden for ...
The Seimas of Lithuania will vote one whether to bury carbon dioxide, the key gas causing climate change, mainly emitted by industry and energy companies.
A Swedish court has started hearing Lithuania's action for annulment of a Stockholm arbitration tribunal's ruling in a dispute between the government and Russia's gas giant Gazprom in which the country sought, but was not awarded, 1.4 billion euros in compensation for overpriced Russian natural gas.
The Lithuanian Energy Ministry expects to have in late June the results of a study into deploying a smart metering system across the public utility sector.
The Lithuanian government plans to allocate 4.5 million euros in financial support to residents who have installed small solar power plants. Applications will be accepted as of May, the Energy Ministry says.
The Lithuanian and Swedish electricity markets should be connected by the second interconnection, NordBalt 2, by 2025, while the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project should be frozen, suggests a new energy strategy worked out by the outgoing Lithuanian Energy Ministry and presented by Minister Roka...
Ramūnas Karbauskis, chairman of the Lithuanian Peasant and Green Union (LPGU), the party that triumphed in recent parliamentary elections, says that the Energy Ministry, which, in words, was established for a new nuclear power plant project, will be scrapped and its functions will be transferred to ...
