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On Thursday, 17 December, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė will travel to Brussels to attend a European Council meeting and discuss additional measures to manage the migration crisis, including the setting up of a European Border and Coast Guard. European leaders will also exchange views on h...
Lithuanian leaders and their counterparts from the Baltic states and Poland are on Monday officially inaugurating the interconnections LitPol Link and NordBalt, lauded as key projects to usher the country into the new era of energy independence.
The system tests for NordBalt and LitPol Link, energy connections vital for promoting Lithuanian energy independence and security, are now under way.
In late November, 24,000 Lithuanian consumers will receive electricity from Sweden for the first time. During a half an hour special test when the Lithuanian electricity system operator Litgrid is planning to verify the NordBalt black-start feature, the residents in Klaipėda and Šilutė districts wil...
The NordBalt submarine power cable between Lithuania and Sweden, which is due to start functioning by the end of 2015, casts doubts on whether Lithuania still needs a nuclear power plant.
Two months remain until the completion of the biggest joint Swedish and Lithuanian project NordBalt. In December the electricity produced in Scandinavia will be transmitted directly to Lithuania for the first time in history. King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden along with the President o...
Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė met with King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia of Sweden who are on a three-day state visit in Lithuania. During their meeting, the president and the Swedish royal couple discussed the results and prospects of long-standing and close bilateral cooperation. Thi...
The 453-kilometer long 700 megawatt NordBalt power interconnection is one of the most important projects in the history of Baltic countries’ energy sectors. Although the submarine cable is laid between the coasts of Lithuania and Sweden, the project will equally benefit to Lithuania and Latvia,” sai...
All cable-related works on the NordBalt power interconnection have been completed in the Baltic Sea. The 400km submarine cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden has been protected from vessel anchors and fishing equipment along its most vulnerable sections.
The Topaz Installer cable laying vessel has finished her work. In just a year and two months, with short interruptions, she laid 400 kilometres of NordBalt cable onto the bottom of the Baltic Sea. 90 percent of the link construction works have already been completed, reports energy company Litgrid.
On Friday, 5 June, Minister of Energy of Lithuania Rokas Masiulis met with Director General of Nord Pool Spot power market Mikael Lundin to discuss the development of electricity links with Sweden and Poland.
Speaking at the annual ‘Traditional and Renewable Energy Forum’ on 13 May in Vilnius, Lithuania, event organizer and Chairman of the Estonian Chamber of Commerce, Robert Juodka, told the Lithuania Tribune he believes the Lithuania is now able to support its own energy needs.
During its month-long work in 2015, the special vessel Topaz Installer laid more than 50 kilometres of HVDC cable NordBalt in the Baltic Sea. At the moment, she is completing a second stretch of the same length.
Sweden and Russia will discuss the hindrances for the laying of the NordBalt cable next week. Sweden's Foreign Ministry told BNS that the Lithuanian project should proceed without any obstacles.
Sweden on Thursday stated support to the Lithuanian protest over the conduct of Russian military vessels in the Baltic Sea, which impeded the laying of a NordBalt power cable between Lithuania and Sweden.
Russia's ambassador summoned to the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry on Thursday for a protest on hindrances made by military vessels to the laying of NordBalt cable between Lithuania and Sweden did not give any answers.
An incident where the ship guarding the laying of NordBalt cable between Lithuania and Sweden was forced out of the zone has not affected the project, the energy minister has said.
Lithuania's Deputy Foreign Minister Andrius Krivas on Thursday summoned Russia's Ambassador to Lithuania Alexander Udaltsov.
Russian ships are consistently interfering with a strategic energy project of Lithuania that is laying down an electricity link under the Baltic Sea to connect its grid with Sweden's.
On Thursday, the works on laying the NordBalt cable resumed in the Baltic Sea. The last 150 kilometres will be laid by the end of this summer, the Ministry of Energy reports.
