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The binding obligations imposed by the European Commission on Gazprom to prevent its dominance in Central and Eastern Europe will prove pointless if a second Nord Stream gas pipeline is built, Arvydas Sekmokas, a former Lithuanian energy minister, said on Thursday.

As Lithuania prepares for new negotiations on the funding of the Ignalina nuclear power plant's decommissioning, the country's former Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he faced a serious risk of losing funding for the project before assuming his position, the delfi.lt news website reports.

Several dozen energy specialists and politicians have criticised the Lithuanian government's decision to discontinue electricity production subsidies for combined heat and power plants in Vilnius, Kaunas and Panevėžys. They said that the decision will increase consumers' electricity and heating bill...

Nearly 60 famous Lithuanian power engineers, scientists, former energy and economy ministers and heads of business associations encouraged the government to take decisive actions in order to save thermal power plants as reserve electric power sources. The government adopted a resolution on October 7...

Amber Grid, a Lithuanian gas transmission company, signed a 10-year contract with the Russian gas concern Gazprom for the transportation of gas from Belarus through Lithuania to Kaliningrad. According to the contract, the services will cost about €10-11 m. annually for 10.5 million cubic meters of g...

Lithuania could ship natural gas from Klaipėda to Belarus only by rail as volumes would be too low to make investing in infrastructure worthwhile, Arvydas Sekmokas, a former Lithuanian energy minister, said on Tuesday.

The hybrid war, tested in Ukraine, was a big surprise for some time even for defence experts. Now, it seems that this lesson has been learned – Lithuania is one of the first countries in NATO which started to form a rapid reaction force aimed at responding to the new military threats.