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In the first quarter of this year, Lithuania continued to depend on imported electricity: 65% was produced outside the country’s borders. electricity consumed in the country. However, the direction of electricity imports has changed significantly. If the trends continue, they could reduce some of the geopolitical tensions in the region.
Volume of electricity imported into Lithuania in 2020 In January-March, it decreased by 4.1 percent. At the same time, imports from Russia’s Kaliningrad region fell by half, 49.9 percent, from 1.71 TWh in the first half of 2019. quarter to 857.1 GWh in the same period this year. The volume of imports from Belarus decreased by a similar proportion: 50.9%, from 516.4 to 253.4 GWh. Imports of the Nord Balt electrical connection from Sweden, in turn, increased 2.1 times to 1,367 TWh.
Local electricity generation also started the year successfully. Thermal power plants in Lithuania produced 30 percent. plus electricity, wind farms set records and produced 516.9 GWh of electricity, 11.5 percent. more than at the same time last year.
The relatively productive work of the ninth Elektrėnai Combined Cycle Unit was determined by its changing importance in the provision of system services. From January 1. It no longer provides a tertiary reserve for the transmission system operated by Litgrid, but an isolated service for the electrical system. It allows the installation to participate in the electricity market, technically ensuring its availability.
Differences in daily prices formed in the market also allowed electricity to be produced in Kruonys: the storage hydroelectric plant produced 192.8 GWh of electricity, 2.7 times more than at the same time last year.
In total, in the first quarter of this year, 15 percent. The country’s demand was met by electricity generated by wind power plants, and another 7% was generated by hydroelectric plants and other non-polluting methods. the country needs electricity, another 7 percent. they were made from fossil fuels. More than half (65%) of the electricity produced in Lithuania was produced from renewable energy sources.
The increase in imports from Sweden and the increase in national production show the electrical efficiency of the European single market and the right direction for the development of selected renewable energy sources, which substantially reduces our dependence on third countries and correctly responds to Belarus news about Astrava nuclear fuel. . Under Lithuanian law, electricity trade across the Lithuanian-Belarus border will stop from the first megawatt-hours of electricity produced at an unsafe power plant.
The halving of the importance of Belarusian electricity in the Baltic energy market suggests that the contraction in supply would be felt twice as much if the Astravo nuclear power plant were started.
Quarantine marks
At this time, we cannot fail to mention electricity consumption. However, keep in mind that electricity demand indicators, which are often used to find the bottom of an economic contraction or signs of recovery, still do not provide clear indications.
In the first quarter of the year, Lithuania needed 1.6 percent. less electricity than in the first three years of 2019. months. The only industrial sector in Lithuania did not reduce revolutions. I needed 0.7 percent. More electricity than the first in 2019. quarter. The transport sector contracted the most in this period: 19.5%, while companies in the service sector consumed 4.5%. Less electricity. Agriculture needed them by 3.6 percent. Less.
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