R. Masiulis: In energy, I want to finish what I started with the LNG terminal

R. Masiulis, 51, selected as the eleventh candidate, comes to lead the company at a crucial moment when the actual grid synchronization project with continental Europe is starting, and the Astrava nuclear power plant in Belarus is expanding the electricity that consumers cannot pay. according to the law, but according to the energy minister, it is already paying.

R. Masiulis responded to questions from BNS.

Why did you decide to participate in the Litgrid manager selection?

The Synchronization Project is the last major energy project on the road to our energy independence. For me personally, finishing what I started with the LNG terminal would be a great honor and a great pleasure.

With the terminal heavily installed, the project had to be implemented very quickly. The timing also faces similar consequences, as both the president and the energy minister are spreading the word that it is possible to accelerate the completion of its implementation by at least half a year. Is this bt thinking?

I will be able to answer the details after February 22, when I will start work, but of course I always have to try to speed up the shortest path, and in this case I think the right move was to establish a main commission chaired by the Prime Minister.

The same commission was established and the LNG terminal project was approved by Butkeviius (former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkeviius BNS) and the role of the Prime Minister, Minister, was very important,

For me, the synchronization project is like a continuation of what I did in Klaipda, and since electricity is my main competence, where I will spend my professional life, I know, I have been in that sector for more than 20 years, it is a natural position .

Synchronization is a joint project of the three Baltic States and Poland, and requires negotiation and communication skills. There is rubbish with the Latvians because of the electricity from Astrava, it can also be with the Poles. There is an opinion that the synchronization project may be stalled or threatened if Lithuania continues to import the Astravo electric or nuclear power plant and expand production. How do you assess the situation, how will it be necessary to maneuver?

I need to confuse the details with technical, commercial and other information. But I have no doubt that the experts at Litgrid are very good at tracking where that electricity is coming from, and sooner or later it will.

Regarding the project and its international perspective, in this case I am also very satisfied with the experience of working in the ministries. Both the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Transport and Communications had many contacts at the international level with Latvians, Poles and Estonians. Above all I can enjoy the good relations with the Poles, where interests coincide in this place. The Germans did the Poles when they synchronized with Western Europe, the Poles will do the same for us now, their intentions are very good, they help us a lot, they are our commoners. It is very interesting that I have to deal with the Poles, because I believe that my personal contacts will also contribute to our common goal.

D. Kreivys has already said, based on information from Litgrid, that the electricity from Astrava not only flows to the physicists, but Lithuania pays for it, so we are already funding the further development of the Astravas power plant. An even more interesting thing is that Lithuania actually provides balancing services to Belarus. How can this be avoided?

It’s too early to comment on the topic, I need to see the growing media that Litgrid has. But I did not doubt Litgrid’s expert competence and ability to see electrical currents in different sections and an introduction to doing so. We have an expert, we are consistent in our actions and we will finally solve the Astravas problem, at least as far as Lithuania is concerned.

We will see how long it takes and how it is done later, but one way or another it will be fixed and it will not stop our synchronization in any way. And I trust those experts who work in the energy sector, they know what they are doing, the methodologies, the order, the calm, without breaking down, and it is good that they do not end things and say how they are.

The Minister of Transport and Communications, Rokas Masiulis, was famous for his fight against corruption. I don’t mean to say that as a Litgrid manager you set that goal, but what are you thinking about now?

The fight against corruption is never overlooked, but the main work in this position is synchronization, the Astrava theme and preparing for the connection of more renewable energy.

Regarding renewable energy, by the way, some experts talk that if Astravas produces cheap electricity and enters our market, then renewable energy is a threat to energy, which can hinder its development.

Such risks exist, they must be evaluated, but the state has an instrument to promote oil energy, how to face them and it must be understood that oil energy is also cheap. Its cost is going down and if we go back to the wind energy tender a couple of years ago, where the price of electricity was offered at market prices, then our energy is ready to participate in that market, to sell at market prices. .

In fact, my vision of nuclear power is not cheap. The only thing that can be a special discharge, but it should be understood that the rooster will eventually pay for it, because Belarus cannot provide electricity either. This is what we will do to make sure that we do not have other electricity as cheap as possible in Lithuania, well, and we have a law on anti-travina, which says from the beginning that this electricity cannot be here, sooner or later we will achieve it. .

What are your relations with Energy Minister Dainius Kreivis now?

Formal, labor relations, we are not personal friends.

Does Opus Dei keep linking you or not?

We were filmed at an Opus Dei conference together (with D. Kreivis BNS) Lithuanian Morning at age 12, since then they have been writing and emphasizing that we are both members of Opus Dei, and that is why I Kreivys at least supports me. I am not a member of Opus Dei, and since I am a banyi, what is the problem?

Are conservatives willing to stand for election and form a government?

For a long time I had not decided to retire from politics and that information was known to everyone, so there was no discussion with me about it. Everyone knew he didn’t want to participate, so he wouldn’t stop.

Reproduction of BNS news in the media and on websites without the consent of the UAB “BNS” is prohibited.

Rayti komentar