CORPORATE
Klaipėda CHP plant generates record amount of power
Fortum Klaipėda heat and power plant, which runs on waste and biofuel, produced a record 416GWh of heat and 143GWh of electricity during 2015. […]
renewable
Energy
Lithuania may exceed its 2020 renewable energy target
Lithuania and 18 other EU member states may exceed their 2020 renewable energy targets, the European Commission said in its latest renewable energy progress report published on Tuesday. […]
European Union
Energy union, the EU’s next revolution
Big changes often seem to move forward painfully slowly, while the most sweeping of them get triggered by steps no one thought very consequential. It is especially true of the policies of the European Union with its notoriously cumbersome decision-making procedures and contradictory interests. Could the energy union be its next big thing? […]
Energy
Lithuania produced quarter of its electricity from wind power
Over the first quarter of this year, Lithuania’s wind power plants produced 173.3 GWh of electricity. It accounts for 7 percent of all energy consumed in Lithuania, or nearly a quarter (23.6 percent) of total electricity produced in the country in Q1. […]
Energy
Lithuania very close to 2020 renewable energy targets
Lithuania is less than 0.5 percentage points from its 2020 renewable energy consumption targets, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reports. […]
Energy
Lithuania’s LNG terminal: Less dependence on Russian gas, but more dependence on fossil fuel?
This Monday, Lithuania congratulated itself on finishing a seminal project in its energy independence policy and welcomed the floating liquefied natural gas terminal in the Baltic port of Klaipėda, from where it will open a second gas import line, an alternative to Russia’s gas giant Gazprom that had monopolized the Lithuanian gas market. […]
Energy
Economist: Lithuania to choose between “green” EU and “nuclear” Russia
Lithuania in the future will be able to choose between “green” energy from the European Union and nuclear energy from Russia, an economist at Nordea bank said on Wednesday. […]
Energy
Wind electricity generation up 20 percent in Lithuania
In the first nine months of 2014, Lithuania’s wind farms generated 366.4 Gigawatt-hours (GWh) of electricity, i.e., 19.3 percent more year-on-year. Wind electricity accounted for 16.4 percent of the total electricity generated in Lithuania. […]
Economy
Solar manufacturer Via Solis starts new production line in Lithuania
The EU project SmartFlex has announced the completion of a production line for manufacturing individually designed solar photovoltaic (PV) façades on an industrial scale. […]
Economy
German company wins first wind-turbine contract in Lithuania
Hamburg-based maker of wind turbines Nordex SE has won a contract to supply a 24-megawatt power-plant project in Lithuania, Bloomberg reports. […]