The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are on track to desynchronise their electricity grids from the Russian grid and synchronise with the European Union’s (EU) grid by early 2025, according to Estonian EU energy commissioner Kadri Simson.
The early 2025 grid desynchronisation deadline would come in time for the planned start of nuclear power generation in Estonia in the early to mid-2030s, Simpson said in a Euractiv press report on 16 May.
Simson said: “Grids are the heart of our energy system and have a big geopolitical and strategic importance. This has been underlined by Russia’s devastating attacks against Ukraine’s energy sector”.
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