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Friday, 26.04.2024, 16:55
Poland's trimming of GIPL route to give Lithuania additional EUR 3 mln in EU support
On Tuesday, Lithuanian gas transmission company Amber Grid
and the European Commission's Innovation and Networks Executive Agency (INEA)
signed the updated support agreement, which raises the EU support for GIPL
construction for Lithuania from 55 mln euros to 58 mln euros, while the project
deadline is moved to the end of 2021.
"The increase in support has to do with the fact that
the project is changing on the Polish side. It is becoming shorter and the
Polish share of costs is declining, therefore, the Lithuanian side is receiving
additional support," Danas Janulionis, head of strategic planning at Amber
Grid, told.
In his words, the Polish operator Gaz-System should complete
the study by mid-2017 to specify the length of the route in Poland. According
to preliminary calculations, it should shrink from 357 km to 310 km. In
Janulionis' words, the route in Lithuania remains unchanged at 177 km, and the
value remains at the same level.
Last September, Poland said that, due to environmental
requirements, it was planning to change the route of its section of the
pipeline and move the starting point from the Rembelszczyzna compressor station
to the Holowczyce compressor station, which is near the border with
Belarus and is closer to Lithuania.
It was estimated earlier that the GIPL project would
cost 558 mln euros in total, including 136 mln euros in Lithuania.