10 months after the rejection of Lithuania will check the adequacy of the Russian energy system

The Lithuanian operator ordered a study of the adequacy of the country's energy system. This happened ten months later, as the Baltic countries withdrew from the BRELL energy ring with Russia and Belarus.

"Litgrid is launching a study on the adequacy and flexibility of services in the Lithuanian electricity system. The sufficient capacity of the system in various scenarios will be assessed, and based on the results obtained, an assessment of the need for system flexibility will be carried out and solutions for the need for flexible generation capacities and development models in Lithuania will be proposed," the operator of the Lithuanian energy system reports.

"The country's electric power system is considered adequate if it can supply consumers with electricity without forced outages arising from a lack of production capacity. This is estimated using two main probability indicators: LOLE (LOLE). The expected load loss is how many hours a year there will probably be a shortage of generating energy and how much electricity will not be provided to consumers," said Paulius Kozlovas, head of Strategy at Litgrid.

The company noted that the research will be conducted by the French Artelys SAS, which won the state tender.

As EADaily reported, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia left the BRELL energy ring in February of this year and synchronized with the Single European Energy System. Among the side effects are price spikes and additional costs for reserve capacities, which were previously provided by Russia. For example, in Estonia alone, an additional capacity order in case of a power shortage is estimated at 60 million euros per year. Starting next year, the costs will be shifted to consumers.