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        • 18 Aug 2022

        Lithuania Electricity Security Policy

        …new interconnectors with Poland and Sweden, Lithuania’s electricity market is increasingly integrated into the Baltic and Nordic electricity markets. In November 2020, Lithuania, together with neighbouring Latvia and Estonia, ceased electricity imports from Belarus after the country commissioned its Astravets nuclear power plant, which is close to Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, and deemed unsafe by the government of the three Baltic countries.In the coming years, Lithuania will need to adapt its rules and regulations to reflect these three energy transitions and ensure the efficient development of the country’s electricity sector. The government aims to boost medium…

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        • 17 Aug 2022

        Lithuania Oil Security Policy

        …Lietuva owns and operates the Mazeikiai refinery (205 kb/d capacity) as well as the crude oil pipeline (242 kb/d capacity) which connects with the Butinge sea terminal (280 kb/d import/export capacity). The Butinge terminal has been operating as an import terminal since 2006, following the closure of another crude pipeline connecting the refinery to the Druzhba trunk pipeline system through Belarus. As a result, Lithuania has diversified its crude oil import sources.Lithuania’s emergency response policy relies primarily on the use of emergency oil stocks with the ability to implement short-term demand restraint measures…

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        • 17 Aug 2022

        Lithuania Natural Gas Security Policy

        …and distributionLithuania's gas transmission and distribution network consists of 2 113 kilometres of gas transmission pipelines and around 20 000 kilometres of distribution grids. The network has two gas compressor stations, three gas metering stations and 65 gas distribution stations. A major supply pipeline from Russia enters Lithuania in Kotlovka at the Belarusian-Lithuanian border and is unidirectional. There is also a connection to Latvia through a bidirectional pipeline which provides Lithuania with access to the Incukalns underground gas storage facility and to Latvian and Estonian gas markets, and gives these countries access to the LNG terminal in Klaipeda. Li...

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        • 05 May 2022

        Lithuania's legislation on oil security

        Introduction Lithuania’s ability to respond to oil supply shortages has a legal basis in the Law on State Stocks of Petroleum Products and Oil, (Law No. IX-986, Law on State Stocks). The Law on Stocks includes secondary legislation regarding procedures to respond to an oil supply disruption, and on maintaining oil emergency stocks. Relevant domestic legislation Relevant European Union legislation Other related links Circumstances triggering operation of the emergency response system The decision-making procedure for activating emergency response measures, as according to Government Resolution 12 (Procedure for Supplying Consumers with Energy and/or Energy Resources in the…