Lithuanian president signs law on Baltic grid synchronization project

Source: Xinhua| 2019-06-27 20:39:32|Editor: ZX
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VILNIUS, June 27 (Xinhua) -- Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite on Thursday signed a package of legal acts adopted earlier by the Parliament, which aim at ensuring the smooth synchronization of the country's electricity networks with those of mainland Europe.

"The implementation of the synchronization project will fully ensure the region's energy security," the president's office said in a statement. "The Baltic states will disconnect from the Russia-controlled BRELL (Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania) energy ring and will be integrated into the continental European electricity network."

Earlier this June, Lithuania's Parliament passed a law and related legal acts on the connection of the country's power system to the synchronous grid of continental Europe through Poland. The legal acts stipulate the principal conditions for organization and implementation of the synchronization process.

The synchronization project will be granted the status of special state importance and will be carried out by 2025.

According to the Lithuanian authorities, the synchronization of the Baltic states' electricity networks is a strategic energy security project. Once implemented, it will ensure the long-term reliability and safety of Lithuania's electricity system.

On June 20, a political roadmap on the implementation of the synchronization of the Baltic states' electricity networks with the continental European network was signed in Brussels by European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Lithuanian President Grybauskaite, and the prime ministers of Latvia, Estonia and Poland.

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