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The issue will be further discussed at the second BEMIP meeting on Tuesday by representatives of the three countries and the European Commission (EC).
Edis Šeicanis, Undersecretary of State for Energy at the Latvian Ministry of Economy, says it is too early to talk about the position of Latvians, as calculations from transmission system operators (TSO) are awaited.
“We do not know if Belarusian electricity has ever reached Latvia or other Baltic countries. So if our colleagues can provide such information, of course we will be open. And if that is true, we are ready to discuss it, but we have not received that information yet. So let’s wait for the WHO conclusions, I hope they provide us with valuable results from the discussion, “E. Sheicanis told BNS on Monday.
According to him, it is first important to find out whether there really are gaps in the methodology of Latvia and Estonian electricity trade with Russia, which was not supported by Lithuania, because currently the countries base their positions on “different statistics”.
“So far, we have not heard from our operator that there are problems with the methodology,” said a representative of the Latvian Ministry of Economy.
Sheican assured that Latvia’s two-step system to ensure that electricity enters the market from Russia, not from Belarus, is working well: both Inter RAO provides evidence that the electricity is produced in Russia and the authorities of the latter, which later confirms this fact.
After the first BEMIP meeting in mid-March, Deputy Energy Minister Albinas Zananavičius said that Lithuania did not abandon its ambitious plan to agree to a boycott with Latvia and Estonia before the end of June, but the negotiations will require significant efforts.
At the time, E. Sheican said that “everything is possible”, but so far many things are not clear.
In the first meeting, it was decided that the WHO of the three countries would negotiate how to change the trade methodology and how to charge the infrastructure of the Baltic States.
According to the Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivis, the fundamental principle of the new methodology proposed by Lithuania is not to trade with the physical electricity flow that flows through the border between Lithuania and Belarus, and trade would only be possible with the electricity that flows through Latvia and Estonia. connections with Russia.
D. Kreivys, based on data from Litgrid, has said that Lithuania buys the electricity produced by the Astravas nuclear power plant through Latvia and will pay around 120 million LTL per year. if the trade between Russia and Latvia continues at the same level.
The Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP) is the European Commission’s energy initiative for the integration of the Baltic energy markets into the EU.
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