On Tuesday, the Lithuanian Minister of Energy, Rokas Masiulis, met with his American counterpart, Dr. Ernest Moniz, the Secretary of Energy. The meeting at the Department of Energy in Washington, DC, focused on energy security and discussing potential exports of US liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Lithuania. […]
The situation in Lithuania has radically changed with the launch the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal and negotiations with Russia’s gas giant Gazprom on a new gas supply contract are no longer as important for the country as they were in the past, Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says. […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis on Sunday is leaving for a week-long visit to the United States aimed, among other things, at discussing possibilities for importing liquefied natural gas (LNG). […]
Lithuanians of the US Capital region celebrated on Sunday, 15 February, the 97th anniversary of Lithuania as the modern day State, on one of the most blistery, cold days in recent memory. The day’s celebration started with a Latin mass in St. Matthews Cathedral. Monsignor Rolandas Makrickas of the Apostolic Nunciature to the United States welcomed the congregation the historic downtown cathedral. At the end of the service, Deanne Howes sang the Lithuanian national anthem, joined by well over 150 Lithuanians. The attendees walked the short distance on icy sidewalks to a nearby hotel for a breakfast. Washington Lithuanian Community leader, Danelė Vidutienė, introduced Žygimantas Pavilionis, Lithuania’s Ambassador to the United States. The Ambassador gave a brief overview of his tenure in the US Capital. […]
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis believes that Sweden‘s decision to phase out nuclear power would act as a stimulus for Lithuania’s new nuclear power project, which has stalled with officials saying that they are consulting with Latvia and Estonia, the potential regional partners, and with Japan’s Hitachi. […]
Lithuania’s Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis paid a visit to Riga to take part in a conference on the creation of the European Energy Union. Latvia is currently presiding over the Council of the European Union. The Lithuanian energy minister says such union might contribute to dealing with issues which are given insufficient attention on the current EU agenda and which lack European-level support. […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has admitted that talks with Latvia and Estonia on the multi-billion-euro project for building a new nuclear power plant in Visaginas are proceeding too slowly and called for patience, saying that it will take more than a year until a final decision on the project is made. […]
Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius told his Baltic counterparts in Tallinn on Friday that he would “step up” negotiations with the Japanese corporation Hitachi and partners in Latvia and Estonia on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Visaginas. […]
Lithuania is already in a position to supply gas to Latvia and Estonia, however, Latvia’s stance, which remains unclear, raises concerns about free supply of gas to the Baltic countries, energy minister has said, adding that Latvia has assured that it will guarantee the implementation of the European Union’s (EU) Third Energy Package. […]
Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in Klaiėeda, which took a year and a half to build and cost around 500 million litas (EUR 145m), is officially launching operations on Wednesday. […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has offered to supply natural gas to Ukraine and to help the country in building a liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal. […]
Lithuania would only build an underground natural gas storage facility in Syderiai, north-west Lithuania, if it obtained the European Union’s (EU) support for the 300-million-euro project and if it failed to agree with Latvia on access to the Incukalns storage facility, energy minister has said. […]
A price cut that Lietuvos Dujos (Lithuanian Gas) obtained from Russia’s gas giant Gazprom earlier this year has more than covered the Klaipėda liquefied natural gas terminal’s construction costs for consumers, Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis said on Monday. […]
The floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU), built for Lithuania’s liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal, sailed into the port of Klaipėda on Monday morning. At a welcoming ceremony in the afternoon, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaitė and Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said this was a groundbreaking achievement in the country’s aspiration for energy independence. […]
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis participated at the European Gas Summit organised by the British newspaper Financial Times and stressed that Europe was heavily dependent on energy imports. […]
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has said that the incident in the Swedish Baltic Sea waters, where a suspected Russian submarine might have been spotted over the weekend, should not hamper Lithuania’s Liquefied Natural Gas terminal project. […]
Lithuanian Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says that electricity prices may go down next year following a cut in the public service obligation (PSO) budget. […]
Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis says that the price of gas supplied through the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal will be determined by the international market as it will be calculated based on the United Kingdom‘s National Balancing Point (UK NBP) gas prices. […]
Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis has yet to give a concrete answer about whether Lithuania needs a new nuclear power plant (NPP) in Visaginas. According to him, Lithuania is finding its feet regarding energy security, thus there is no need to rush with the decision. […]
The newly appointed Minister of Energy Rokas Masiulis says that he will decide on the directions of his policies after he better studies costs of major energy projects. […]
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