The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have cut ties with Russia’s power grid and switched to the EU continental grid.
During a ceremony held in Vilnius, Lithuania, ministers from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania joined European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen to officially connect their electricity grids to the European grid.
A few days earlier, they had disconnected from the Russian power grid. These states will now rely on connections with Finland, Sweden and Poland.
The Baltic states split from the the Soviet Union in 1991; however, they have remained reliant on Russia’s power grid. While they had announced their attention to achieve energy independence from Russian in 2018, this process was sped up following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
While they stopped purchasing Russian gas and electricity their power grids remained connected to Russia and Belarus to ensure a stable electricity flow.
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