Energy, Estonia, Lithuania, Nuclear power plant

Juhan Parts.

"It is not an easy project, issues should be discussed and solved at a political and commercial level. We need to make decisions instead of holding a number of discussions and waiting. My answer is that it is time to adopt a decision as soon as possible," the guest said.

Parts stressed that Estonia was presently safe enough with regard to energy sector, since it had its own energy resource – shale and energy link with Finland, but it wanted to ensure itself a more diverse energy portfolio, including nuclear energy as well. Now it is necessary to create a common Baltic electricity market. Then it would not be so important whether Lithuania or Latvia had the landfall of the energy link with Sweden, writes ELTA.

Energy Minister Sekmokas noted that the common Baltic market was necessary for both the projects on energy links and the new AE. The said free market would essentially start functioning after the decommissioning of the Ignalina AE, main electricity producer in the region.