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Photo 10President Gitanas Nausėda observes the Kruonis Hydraulic Accumulation Power Plant. But do you understand what you see? Photo by Roberto Dačkus (Office of the President of the Republic of Lithuania)
Firstly, because of illiterate Lithuanian politicians who adopted a law on the “unsafe” purchase of electricity from Belarus. And the President of Lithuania, who signed this law. The only question is, are they illiterate, or should they pretend to be, and why? Did you hear nothing about the common energy system of the five states, the requirements for its operation and security? Do not know how to buy electricity from the public network?
Even the oil in the pipeline, formally purchased in Kazakhstan and formally located in the Transneft pipeline, was distributed to Mazeikiai according to the pipeline schedule to a specific refinery, but was not necessarily “Kazakh”. Usually “Russian”. That was the case. We give up the alternative ourselves.
Even more embarrassed became after the public explanation of the President of Lithuania G.Nausėda that “… Kruonis PSHP will not be used for the benefit of Astravas, Lithuania will in principle comply with the adopted laws – will not buy electricity from a country with a Unsafe nuclear power plant, will not provide Kruonis PSHP reserves …, that the recommendations of the EU stress tests have not been implemented before launch and that plans to load nuclear fuel into the reactor without addressing critical problems are inadequate “
It is inappropriate for our politicians to speak in public and to do so.
Vytautas Landsbergis, the then president of the Lithuanian Seimas, tried to do the same at the time, trying to suspend the cross-border agreement signed in Vilnius between five countries (Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Belarus and Russia) on the functioning of the common energy system and guarantee your safety. Then the Lithuanian professional energy professionals showed their spine and publicly explained to the “great energy teacher” what the energy system is, the grid and how they work. To put it politely, the President of our Seimas was established: he said publicly that the President of the Seimas would not interfere where he knows nothing and what is not his competence.
Today’s Lithuanian energy companies appear to have no backbone. Not like hardened “Soviet” energy. The silence of today and allows our politicians to be completely politicized. And risk at our expense.
I imagine what the IAEA thinks of us because of our policies, not only for the energy of other countries, but also for the IAEA. As a member of the IAEA, it would be helpful for Lithuanian politicians to know that no nuclear power plant will be operated if it does not meet IAEA requirements. I would like to see the material on which the President of Lithuania speaks so publicly. I very much doubt that the head of state is familiar with the documents.
Reserve capacity must be provided for each electricity generation unit operating in the electricity transmission network. In the event of an unexpected or planned cessation of operation, another electricity generating unit of similar capacity will begin operating immediately. Otherwise, transmission networks could face a sad fate. Here, the reserve power of the Ignalina nuclear power plant reactor was ensured by the always-ready power unit at Elektrėnai, and reactor II by the Kruonis power plant. That’s what it was built for.
After 2012 Following the referendum result (after Lithuania decided not to build nuclear power plants), the construction of the Baltijsk nuclear power plant in the Kaliningrad region was soon suspended. I think, mainly due to the fact that the construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant was revoked and legally condemned in this referendum. The Russian authorities properly understood this. Only the Lithuanian government tried for some time to “philosophize” about the continued construction of the Visaginas nuclear power plant.
A question for our government. Could the Astrava nuclear power plant be built without the reserve power provided by the Kruonis power plant? President, request documents and announce what the Lithuanian Government led by Andrius Kubilius signed with the Government of Belarus in connection with the construction of the Astrava nuclear power plant.
At that time, I wrote to the Government of Lithuania and President D. Grybauskaitė to build a joint power plant in Belarus northeast of Lake Druksiai in place of the Visaginas nuclear power plant at the place Belarus had proposed before the start of construction of the Ignalina nuclear power plant. Only then did the USSR Council of Ministers choose the site of Lake Druksiai against the will of Lithuania. A. Kubilius and D. Grybauskaitė were silent and the devil knows what he was doing together with Belarus. Like the gas independence project, the Visaginas nuclear power plant project decided to implement it alone. Do not share with others.
On the grounds of Kruonis HPP, the appropriate Lithuanian politicians would negotiate with Belarus electricity prices at the state level, without leaving this trade to private intermediaries coordinated by both parties, playing the role of a free electricity market.
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