Ministry of Energy

President Gitanas Nausėda who has proposed to establish the new Ministry of Regions is open to the idea of closing the Ministry of Energy.

The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant (the INPP) has been awarded the highest score in the Good Governance Index of A+. The INPP received the highest rating for the first time in 2022-2023, following an analysis of the Annual Report 2022, the Sustainability Report, an assessment of the work of the colleg...

Vilnius City Council has approved a plan to develop the production and use of green hydrogen in both public and private transport, the municipality said on Wednesday.

The EU General Court on Thursday rejected an appeal by Achema, a Lithuanian fertilizer producer which is part of the Achema business group, over state aid for the Klaipeda-based LNG terminal.

Lithuania plans to hold one renewable energy auction every year in 2020–2022, and each of it will distribute 0.7 TWh of electricity.

Lithuania has turned to the Supreme Court of Sweden, appealing against Sweden's Court of Appeals' decision to uphold the Stockholm arbitration's 2016 ruling, unfavorable to Lithuania, in the country's dispute with Russian gas giant Gazprom.

The reduction of costs at Lithuania's LNG terminal, earlier planned as of July, is being postponed for at least a month after Achemos Grupe (Achemos Group), one of the largest private capital groups in the country and a minority shareholder in Klaipedos Nafta (Klaipeda Oil), the terminal's operator,...

Open consultations on the National Energy Strategy have begun with for the first time, the Lithuanian Ministry of Energy is organising consultations with interest groups whose comments will be considered when drafting the final strategy.

A study presented at the Ministry of Energy on Thursday outlines possibilities how Lithuania could respond to the construction of the Astravyets Nuclear Power Plant in Belarus.

The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy says that it may run electric capacity auctions for reserve capacity for the Lithuanian electricity system starting in 2017.

2015 was an intense year full of changes in Lithuania's energy sector. The Ministry of Energy compiled a list of the ten most important events that have affected the energy sector and consumers the most.

The cost of gas for residents and businesses in Druskininkai could treble in the next year if the spa town in south Lithuania cannot find an alternative to an extremely unfavourable gas supply deal with Gazprom.

The Lithuanian government announced on Monday that it would scrap 1,290 positions in government agencies from April of next year.

On 15 December, Lithuania's Ministry of Energy held a meeting of the Committee of Senior Energy Officials of the Baltic Council of Ministers (BCM) to address the development of a regional gas market and to cooperate on the synchronisation of the Baltic states' power systems with the networks of Cont...

Energy company Vilniaus Energija has claimed that heating prices in Vilnius will soar due to obligations to purchase liquefied natural gas (LNG) from Klaipėda's terminal. The Ministry of Energy has responded to such claims by saying that in October the company itself decided to purchase from the LNG...

Energy service company Vilniaus Energija has informed the Lithuanian Labour Exchange about the planned reorganisation which will result in lay offs of 114 employees of Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant TE-3.

The Supreme Court of Lithuania ruled on Friday to uphold a verdict passed by Stockholm Arbitration court which bound Lithuania not to adjudicate in a dispute with Gazprom.

The European Commission and European Union (EU) member-states have approved financial support in the amount of EUR 27.4 million for the LitPol Link power interconnection between Lithuania and Poland, Litgrid AB, the Lithuanian electricity transmission system operator, reports.

Energy Minister Rokas Masiulis has not denied that Lithuania is in talks with Norway's Statoil on a more flexible schedule of liquefied natural gas (LNG) imports, saying that various operating modes at Klaipėda LNG terminal and its possibilities are currently being tried out and that the ministry ha...