Baltic States Continue Accelerated Effort to Decouple From Russian Power System

Published on June 4, 2024

Baltic states are continuing with efforts to disconnect their electricity networks from Russia and synchronize them with the continental European power system amid the Russian-Ukraine conflict. In July 2023, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania agreed to accelerate their efforts to synchronize their power grids with continental Europe via Poland by February 2025, according to a statement by Lithuania’s Ministry of Climate and Energy. An initial deadline to finalize the transition had been set by the end of 2025. The Baltic states initially made an agreement in 2018 with the European Union (EU) to join the continental European electricity network, according to a European Commission statement. The agreement was reinforced in 2019....

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