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The SNB was briefed on this after a tripartite meeting on Monday.
“The Baltic countries have a fair political position with regard to not purchasing electricity from the Astrava nuclear power plant. Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia have already agreed in principle on additional steps necessary to implement effective technical measures to ensure that Belarusian electricity does not enter the Baltic electricity market from the start of electricity generation at the Belarusian Astrave nuclear power plant. ” – stated in the ministry’s comment.
According to the Ministry, part of the measures may be implemented immediately, part – when the necessary changes are made in the legal acts in the Baltic States.
“It is also important to note that the Baltic states agree not only not to buy electricity from Belarus, but also to the fact that the removal of the Lithuanian and Belarusian infrastructure will cut the chances of importing electricity from other third countries by almost half. before the Baltic electrical system is synchronized. ” written in the comment.
Deputy Minister Egidijus Purlys participated in a remote meeting with representatives of Latvia and Estonia.
The Estonian SNB, based on the country’s Minister of Economic Affairs and Infrastructure, Taavi Aasu, announced on Tuesday that the ministries of the three countries responsible for the energy sector reached an agreement on Monday on electricity trade with third countries.
According to the report, electricity trade with Belarus will be suspended after the start-up of the Astrava nuclear power plant, and at the same time a system of guarantees of origin of electricity will be introduced. Furthermore, electricity trade, albeit to a lesser extent, will shift to the Latvian-Russian border. At that time, trade between Lithuania and Kaliningrad will remain at current levels. At the same time, a new import tariff for electricity from third countries was agreed.
A new tripartite methodology for calculating capacity for trade with third countries will be presented to energy regulators before the end of this week, according to the report.
On Monday, Inga Žilienė, president of the Lithuanian State Energy Regulatory Council (VERT), told BNS that the methodology could be approved relatively quickly at the regulatory level.
“It just came to our attention then. (…) This would be a really urgent matter,” said I. Žilienė.
According to her, a joint political statement is now expected, and a draft methodology is expected from the transmission system operators.
Latvia announced last week that it would suspend electricity trade with Belarus if the Astrava power plant went online. In Lithuania, this Riga decision is seen as an example of progress in negotiations and solidarity on energy.
Following this latest statement from Riga, Lithuanian Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis stated that a political statement was coming and could be signed in the near future. Energy Minister Žygimantas Vaičiūnas told BNS that it is now planned to finally harmonize the text of the political declaration and at the same time approve the tripartite methodology.
Lithuania and the most active critic of the Astrava nuclear power plant, which is being built a few tens of kilometers from Vilnius, emphasize the need to comply with the safety requirements in the project. For its part, Minsk rejects the criticism.
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