Power lines. File photoMOSCOW, May 20.Imports of Russian electricity to Lithuania will be stopped from May 22, the Lithuanian operator of the electricity transmission system Litgrid has announced. enterprises of Inter RAO, which are the only importers of electricity from Russia to the Baltic countries. Starting Sunday, the import of Russian electricity to Lithuania will stop,” the message says. jpg» />Residents of Poland began to seriously save on restaurants and fuel Inter RAO received a notification from the Nord Pool exchange about the suspension of trading in Russian electricity, the Russian company said earlier on Friday. According to Litgrid, imports of Russian electricity to Lithuania have been purposefully reduced in recent years. In 2021, electricity from Russia accounted for 17% of Lithuania's total electricity imports and 16% of its total consumption in the country. imports from strategic partners — EU countries — through the existing network with Sweden, Poland and Latvia,» said Rokas Masiulis, CEO of Litgrid. power engineers explained why Russia stopped supplying electricityInter RAO is the only operator of export and import of electricity in the Russian Federation. The diversified energy holding manages assets in Russia, as well as in Europe and the CIS. The total installed capacity of the company's power plants is 30.7 GW. In 2018, the Baltic countries, Poland and the European Commission signed a political agreement in Brussels to synchronize the power grids of the three Baltic countries with the networks of continental Europe. It is expected that by 2025 the Baltic countries should finally leave the BRELL energy ring (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and connect to the energy system of continental Europe, which will allow them to achieve «energy independence from Russia».
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