Extensive measurements taken this spring have confirmed safe magnitudes of electromagnetic fields that occur around high voltage electricity transmission networks. The electricity transmission system operator Litgrid, who carried out the works, analysed over 30 areas throughout Lithuania.
2014 June 10
Local Power Production Slowed Down the Rise of Market Prices
From 2nd to 8th of June the average price of electricity in the Nord Pool Spot exchange‘s Lithuanian trading area was 23 ct per kilowatt hour. Due to planned repair works on power plants and a low supply of electricity in the Scandinavian countries, the prices of electricity remained relatively high in Finland and Estonia‘s trading areas, while the supply of electricity produced by local power plants in Lithuania and Latvia did not reduce the market prices.
2014 May 27
Panevėžys substation has been modernised to ensure reliable operation of the energy system
The reconstruction of Panevėžys transformer substation is completed. This high voltage substation ensures the reliability of power supply to consumers in Eastern Lithuania and secure power transit between Latvia and Lithuania.
2014 May 20
Conservationists and environmental consultants will oversee LitPol Link construction
A campaign to protect wildlife habitats along the route of the Lithuania-Poland power link LitPol Link commenced this week. Prior to each stage of the construction, environmental consultants and conservationists will examine and monitor wildlife habitats in the area where the power link is being constructed.
2014 May 13
One hundred kilometres of NordBalt cable has been laid
A special ship Topaz Installer has made a second trip into the Baltic Sea to install another 50 kilometre section of a submarine cable which is part of the NordBalt power link to connect Lithuania and Sweden.
2014 May 5
LitPol Link’s construction starts in Alytus
On 5 of May the district of Alytus in Lithuania has officially announced the start of the construction of a power link between Lithuania and Poland, LitPol Link. The construction works will start this year and continue next year. LitPol Link will be put into operation at the end of December 2015.
2014 April 11
NordBalt Cable Laying Begins in the Baltic Sea
On April 11 a special ship that arrived at the Baltic Sea coast early in the morning laid the first meters of submarine cables through the prepared pipes leading towards the Curonian Spit, and began one of the major stages of constructing a 450-kilometre-long international power link – laying the cable across the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
2014 April 7
Power system ready for summer
As the summer season approaches, Lithuanian power plants and power transmission lines are going to undergo scheduled maintenance works. Nine of fourteen power plants will shut down for maintenance at a different time, so the supply of electricity will not be affected: most scheduled maintenance works will be carried out at thermal power plants which do not operate in summer.
2014 April 4
Electricity market development issues - in the hands of experts
Development of the electricity market and its coordination in an effort to create the utmost benefit for electricity market participants and consumers – these are the operating principles that members of the Electricity Market Committee discussed during their first meeting. These specialists and experts involved with the electricity market plan to hold meetings at least four times per year.
2014 March 5
Swedish contractors start working on the construction site of the key facilities of the NordBalt power link
A vacated territory of Klaipėda transformer substation was transferred to the Swedish technology company ABB, which produces and constructs the NordBalt power link and which will shortly start the installation of the direct current converter of the link. The contract with ABB regarding the installation of the NordBalt converters in Lithuania and Sweden was signed at the end of 2010; the contract value amounts to LTL 507 million.
