The Baltic states are disconnecting from the Russian IPS/UPS electricity grid and joining the Continental European grid on February 9th. This move is a significant step towards energy independence ...

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I'm drilling down on two issues: the Baltic states connecting to ... Western Balkans and Europe’s Eastern neighborhoods.

For the Baltic states, an openness to Europe and the EU was a strategic goal. Still, disconnecting from an integrated power network takes time. All three joined the EU and NATO in 2004.

02/07/2025 February 7, 2025 Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have today disconnected from the electricity supply grid shared with Russia and Belarus. The three countries haven't bought electricity ...

Sixteen power lines that used to connect three Baltic states with Russia and Belarus were dismantled over the years as a new grid linking them with the rest of the EU was created, including ...

A screen near the Energy Museum and Mindaugas Bridge indicates that on February 8 the Baltic States will disconnect from the Russian electricity grid to synchronise with Continental Europe ...

However, in the coming months, we aim to quadruple our storage capacity, and beyond that, we have even bigger plans," said Klaus Pilar, head of Sunly Estonia. The Baltic states were connected to the ...

- At $5.73 billion, energy accounts for 19.3% of overall import figures in Türkiye in November ...

Nearly 3 1/2 decades after leaving the Soviet Union, the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania this weekend will flip a switch to end electricity-grid connections to neighboring Russia ...