It appears that Lithuania is no longer combatting the opening of Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant along, with Latvia joining. The neighbouring country, just like Lithuania, has declared that it will not purchase electricity from the […]
The cooperation contracts signed between Lithuanian energy companies with the US liquefied natural gas supplier Freeport LNG brings major political and economic benefit for Lithuania, says the country’s energy expert Romas Švedas. […]
With the Poles showing interesting in potential oil fields in Baltic Sea territory belonging to Lithuania, energy expert Romas Švedas and Conservative leader Gabrielius Landsbergis point out what measures should be taken so that the […]
With the influential European gas company association Eurogas releasing a statement in defence of the controversial Russian gas pipeline Nord Stream 2 project and opposing the European Commission initiatives, the National Lithuanian Electricity Association (NLEA) […]
On Sunday Gazprom started constructing the “TurkStream” pipeline, which is another piece of the puzzle for Russia to supply gas to Western Europe by bypassing East European countries. Romas Švedas, who is an independent energy […]
Stopping the construction of the Astravyets nuclear power plant in Belarus through legal means is hardly possible, but arguments of European integration could be used for this purpose, Romas Švedas, a member of the Implementation Committee of the UN Espoo Convention, said on Monday evening. […]
Mantas Bartuška, the new chief executive officer of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG), is confident that he will manage to turn the country’s largest state-owned enterprise, which has recently come on the radar screen of law-enforcement, into a transparent company. […]
Mantas Bartuška, currently CEO of the state-run oil product and liquefied natural gas terminals operator Klaipėdos Nafta (Klaipėda Oil), has been appointed as a new CEO of Lietuvos Geležinkeliai (Lithuanian Railways, or LG) and Romas Švedas, an independent expert and a former energy minister, has been appointed as chairman of the state railway company’s new management board. […]
The new Seimas term begins on Monday, with the Peasant and Greens fraction claiming to hold almost 60 members of 141. As such its proposals will have to be considered by both its coalition partners […]
An environmental impact assessment report that Belarus has presented to Lithuania regarding its Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant reads like it was written with an automated translation engine and raises concerns that nuclear safety is not taken seriously, Lithuanian experts say. […]
With Iran eager to enter the global oil market and both Russia and Saudi Arabia desperate to stay in the game, the two countries’ recent agreement to freeze oil output should be taken with a grain of salt, says Lithuanian energy expert Romas Švedas. […]
Last week, Lithuania signed a historic contract of liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply with the Norwegian company Statoil. Even if the price of gas set by Statoil will be somewhat higher than the one Lithuania pays now, it is important that, for the first time in history, the country has an alternative to Russian gas, says Romas Švedas, former deputy minister of energy and lecturer at the International Relations and Political Science Institute of Vilnius University (VU TSPMI). […]
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