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Scientist: new NPP would have no major effect on Lithuania's energy security

BC, Vilnius, 10.05.2016.Print version
A new nuclear power project in Lithuania would have no significant effect on the country's energy security, a co-author of Lithuania's new energy strategy said on May 10th, cites LETA/BNS.

"The project is not necessary for Lithuania from the perspective of energy security. Nuclear energy is not necessary," Juozas Augutis, Rector at Vytautas Magnus University, said at an energy forum in Vilnius while presenting the draft national energy strategy.

 

Lithuania's energy security could increase two-fold following the planned synchronization of its electricity grid with the Continental European system and the construction of a second LitPol Link cable with Poland, he said.

 

According to the scientist, by the time the Baltic countries carry out the synchronization project, Lithuania will have a sufficient number of power plant to ensure its energy security.

 

"There is really no big difference from the viewpoint of energy security, because by this time, we will have enough projects for energy security. The nuclear power plant doesn't have a significant effect," he said.

 

According to Augutis, the level of energy security in Lithuania has increased greatly following the completion of the Klaipeda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and power interconnections with Poland and Sweden and is forecast to remain almost unchanged until the synchronization project is implemented.

 

The three Baltic countries aim to synchronize their systems with the Continental European grid by 2025.

 

The new national energy strategy, drafted by the Energy Ministry together with the Lithuanian Energy Institute and other scientists, barely mentions the nuclear power plant. The current Seimas is expected to pass the strategy before its term expires.

 

Lithuania in the summer of 2011 chose Japan's Hitachi as a strategic investor in the Visaginas nuclear power plant, but the project did not draw support in a non-binding referendum held a year later.






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