{"id":4357,"date":"2020-03-10T13:17:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sportsnewsforyou.com\/?p=4357"},"modified":"2020-03-10T13:17:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-10T13:17:15","slug":"time-to-change-energy-provider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/?p=4357","title":{"rendered":"Time to change energy provider"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"art\"><\/figure>\n<header>\n<h1>Time to change energy provider<\/h1>\n<p class=\"subhead\">The EU\u2019s insistence that Lithuania shut down its old nuclear reactor pushed the country back into the arms of Russia<\/p>\n<\/header>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p class=\"byline\">European Voice<\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<footer class=\"meta\">\n<p>\n\t\t\tBy\t\t\t<span class=\"byline\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>\t\t\t<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"timestamp\"><time datetime=\"2013-06-12T21:15:00+00:00\">6\/12\/13, 9:15 PM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<p class=\"updated\">Updated <time datetime=\"2014-04-13T01:23:01+00:00\">4\/13\/14, 1:23 AM CET<\/time><\/p>\n<\/footer>\n<p>One of the biggest preoccupations for Lithuania since it declared&nbsp; independence from the Soviet Union in 1990 has been energy \u2013 or more specifically, where to get it from. <\/p>\n<p>Before joining the European Union, the country relied upon the Ignalina nuclear plant on the border with Belarus \u2013 it supplied 70% of the country\u2019s electricity needs. But the EU said that the ageing plant was unsafe and had to be shut down. Ignalina was finally put out of action in 2009. Since then, Lithuania has had to import 63% of its electricity \u2013 almost all of it from Russia.  <\/p>\n<p>The EU is aware of the problem. All three Baltic states are \u2018energy islands\u2019 \u2013 unconnected to the EU power grid. The European Commission wants to change that by 2015, with the aid of funds from the Connecting Europe Facility. But, though it may seem simple to connect Lithuania to the EU grid, as it shares a border with Poland, the reality is that ending Lithuania\u2019s energy dependence is proving  enormously difficult.  <\/p>\n<p>Click Here: <a href='https:\/\/www.nrlshops.com\/rugby-Jerseys' title='cheap nrl jerseys'>cheap nrl jerseys<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Grand plans <\/h3>\n<p>The government wants to build a nuclear power plant (to be known as Visaginas) to replace Ignalina. It has also adopted a long-term national energy strategy that outlines how the country will complete four major energy projects \u2013 a scheme with Poland called the LitPol link, another with Sweden (called NordBalt), a liquefied natural gas terminal in Klaipeda, and the Visaginas nuclear plant.  <\/p>\n<p>But there are doubts about whether any of the projects are feasible. Funding has been slow to materialise, although earlier in the year Litgrid, Lithuania\u2019s transmission system operator, managed to attract $110 million (\u20ac83m) of investment for the LitPol link.  <\/p>\n<p>Full implementation of the EU\u2019s Third Energy Package could also go a long way towards ending dependence on Russian energy giant Gazprom. But talks with Gazprom on the logistics of this separation have been slow. The reality is that the Lithuanian government\u2019s goal of energy independence by 2020 seems unlikely to be realised.  <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<footer class=\"content-credits\">\n<h6>Authors:<\/h6>\n<dl class=\"vcard\">\n<dt class=\"credits-author\"><span class=\"vcard\">Dave Keating<\/span>&nbsp;<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/footer>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to change energy provider The EU\u2019s insistence that Lithuania shut down its old nuclear reactor pushed the country back into the arms of Russia European Voice By Dave Keating 6\/12\/13, 9:15 PM CET Updated 4\/13\/14, 1:23 AM CET One of the biggest preoccupations for Lithuania since it declared&nbsp; independence from the Soviet Union in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/googmn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}