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“Unfortunately, we have to admit that the measures that Lithuania has taken so far do not guarantee that Belarusian electricity will not enter our country’s market,” the minister said at a government press conference.
“The electricity that physically flows into Lithuania does not come out of Lithuania, it is consumed in Lithuania,” he said.
Photo by Scanpix / Astravo Nuclear Power Plant
Lithuanian politicians have been debating the implementation of the Belarusian electricity boycott for some time. According to Lithuania, their goal is to complicate the operation of the dangerous Astravas nuclear power plant.
The government set up a commission on Wednesday to examine, among other things, measures needed to “protect against threats from unsafe nuclear power plants in third countries.”
According to D. Kreivis, this will allow the State Defense Council to present “certain proposals”.
“I want to say at once that most of these proposals will not be public,” said the minister.
He added that a plan to boycott Belarusian electricity will be completed in February.
Photo by Luke April / 15 minutes / Dainius Kreivys
Even before coming to power, the Conservatives said the boycott could not be implemented now due to a flawed new Baltic deal defining electricity trade with third countries.
According to D. Kreivis, an attempt will be made to redraft this agreement; Already this week, the Minister intends to send a letter to his Latvian counterpart to the Minister of Energy urging to cooperate in the development of a new so-called business methodology.
Lithuania formally stopped trading in Belarusian electricity as soon as the Belarusian nuclear power plant started generating electricity, on November 3 last year. The so-called physical commissioning of the power plant began in August.
Scanpix / AP Photo / Astravo Nuclear Power Plant
The Belarusian Ministry of Energy announced that the first reactor at the Astrava power plant had started operating at full capacity during tests on the night of 12 January.
On December 22, Belarus announced the start of the pilot industrial phase of the first reactor at the Astrava nuclear power plant, during which the first power unit will be tested at 75%. and higher levels of capacity.
The first nuclear power plant in Belarus under construction near the Lithuanian state will have two reactors from the Russian VVER project of equal power.
The first reactor is scheduled to go into industrial operation in the first quarter of this year and the second reactor is expected to come into operation in the first half of 2022.
The project is financed by a loan from the Russian government. The power plant is being built by Rosatom Corporation.
The Lithuanian government claims that the reactor is being built without meeting safety and environmental requirements.
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