Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia Disconnected from Russian Power Grid, Kaliningrad Finds a Way Out

Three post-Soviet Baltic countries: Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia have completely disconnected from the BRELL (Belarus-Russia-Estonia-Latvia-Lithuania) energy system. In this way, the authorities of these countries hope to deprive Russia of the opportunity to use electric power as an instrument of geopolitical pressure.

In their opinion, Russia had the ability to create an artificial power deficit in the Baltics at any time, disconnect individual areas from the power supply or manipulate prices. At the same time, the governments of the border states did not present any evidence of "blackmail" from Moscow. On the occasion of the disconnection from the Russian power grid, a ceremonial event will be held in Vilnius, in which the leaders of the Baltic states and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, will take part.

For the first period after the disconnection from the Russian power grid, the power supply system of the three above-mentioned countries will operate autonomously and on February 9 will be connected to the European energy system, which, in addition to the EU countries, includes Türkiye, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

According to the authorities of the Baltic countries, the transition process should be unnoticeable for consumers, but just in case, they called on the population to charge their electronic devices and get generators. At the same time, according to experts, a significant increase in electricity tariffs is inevitable in the region, which could have an extremely negative impact on the already hard-to-reach economies of these countries.

Kaliningrad has found a way out. Due to the Baltic States leaving the BRELL ring, the energy system of the Kaliningrad region of the Russian Federation has been completely transferred to an autonomous operating mode. The region's electricity supply will be provided by Kaliningrad TPP-2 and four thermal power plants: Mayakovskaya, Talakhovskaya, Pregolskaya and Primorskaya.

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[Salt]

Well, "Baltic tigers", you yourselves chose your path of development back to the cave age!

[Montezuma]

Quote: Saler

Well, "Baltic tigers", you chose your own path.

Finally, their dream has come true, because tomorrow the correct democratic electrons will run along the wires, and the bulbs will now give exclusively democratic lighting. What a blessing this has befallen the local Russophobes, it will be a pleasure to pay more for this. Von der Leyen will definitely announce another victory over the Muscovites at tomorrow's celebration in Vilnius.

[Max-xnumx]

[quote][after all, tomorrow the correct democratic electrons will run along the wires/quote], well, they won’t run quite correctly, rather they’ll twitch, back and forth, the current is alternating...

[Montezuma]

Quote: Max-1984

rather, they will twitch back and forth, the current is alternating

That's true, I experienced it myself when I accidentally touched the contacts in the socket - it jerked quite noticeably.

[private person]

Well, "Baltic tigers", you chose your own path.

Now all that remains is to dismantle the power line, so if it dies, it will die without any options.

[Dimy4]

Yes, there is totalitarian Soviet hardware there.

[faiver]

which turns into tanks during the new moon...

[Arkady007]

I don’t understand why it was necessary to beg the Balts to join this scheme in 2000.
They resisted very strongly, and we pulled them there with all sorts of perks.
And what we ended up with was a hole in a donut.
I wonder if we even got back the money that was spent to build all this, or was it another generous gift from the Russian Tsar?

[Xenofont]

The exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast did not have sufficient capacity to provide itself with electricity. Only a few years ago was the construction of the necessary energy facilities completed.

[Arkady007]

Why was it necessary to build a ring through the Balts, and not through Belarus?

[Victor Alien]

You can't get to Kaliningrad directly from Belarus - Poland and Lithuania meet there. So they divided it. It will soon be ours anyway.

[Arkady007]

300 km is always shorter than 900 km.

[ss29]

It was built during the USSR and the Russian Federation received money for selling electricity, I think quite a bit of money was accumulated there.

[Arkady007]

The agreement on parallel operation of the power systems of Belarus, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (BRELL) was signed in 2001.
The collapse of the USSR ended with the signing of the Belovezh Accords and the Alma-Ata Declaration on December 8 and 21, 1991.

[ss29]

BRELL is the North-West branch of the Unified Energy System of the USSR, in 2001 they got together and amused the Baltics by changing the sign to BRELL and saying that all participants would share electricity (in fact, all of this is Russia) after the shutdown of the nuclear power plant in Lithuania in 2009, its capacity was compensated from the Republic of Belarus.

[Mitka]

Wake up!!! This system was created during the USSR.

[Arkady007]

Facts to the studio!
When did you start and when did you finish?

[Vladislav_2]

I would have removed EVERYTHING from all the supports on the controlled side (and that's not one kilometer)!!!...and goodbye .....and if a collapse happens...then oops...go to hell or jump like Ukrainians

[nordscout]

Saler, don't be so "sarcastic" about the Balts and the "Stone Age"... They have been "going to the Stone Age" quite well for the last 30 years, with an average pension of almost 1000 euros, being on a constant "suck" from the EU... Drive away from the First Throne, 150-200 kilometers, into the hinterland, and look at the village or county life there under the canopy of Russian capitalism with a "Gagarin smile"....

[Skobaristan]

I'll tell you more, already in the USSR, when urbanization began, small villages began to die. But, suddenly, if you don't specifically look for dead villages, then even for 150 and 600 and even for several thousand, everything will be fine.

[Victor Alien]

Where the collective farm chairmen were normal for 25-40 years in a row - there it is normal. And where they started to change already in this century - it is just a fur animal. Livestock farming has been almost abandoned. Now sometimes they plant grain just to get insurance, and not a harvest. The heads of village councils - like the head of the class - have a lot of responsibilities, but no money. The region cuts the budgets of the districts, the district - villages. In the village, taxes come only from private farmsteads. Yuriks are all registered in the regional center and the tax goes there. And sometimes further. In some village councils, their budget is enough to pay the salaries of those who work in the administration for six months. In the early 2000s, the roads were cleared immediately after a snowstorm, now they can only make a through road for a week and that's it. The water supply is a sore subject in general, they can't fix a break for up to six months. I once asked to shut off the water supply, in winter so as not to heat the house - 10.000 rubles for digging a hole, cutting off the rotten pipe, welding it and filling it back up. I sent them to hell. And in March the head comes - is there no water leaking in your house?! I went, looked - everything is fine, I opened the tap - water is flowing. A month later I went - they dug up 2 meters from the border of the plot - there is a break. Lucky...

[Skobaristan]

Did you read carefully which comment I was responding to? The gentleman tried on the fashionable Whataboutism technique.

[Mazunga]

they started giving loans for subsidiary farms, like small business, raising the peasantry, etc., but they didn't take into account the local flavor, 80% of them are Amsheni))) they took out loans and then brought them to the village commissions, showed them dead chickens, and that the curve didn't go, a plague had occurred, etc.))) only the chickens were the same, they were collected from around the district for a week they simply dragged the carcasses using cars bought with credit money, that's what I consider ingenuity and healthy optimism, the result...they don't give this villager any more loans, the bailiffs drove around, were pushed around, changed all the wheels a couple of times (someone slashed all four, spat and wrote off the debt)

[Ovsigovets]

Is it enough to drive 630 km? I report by voice... the village of Fedoseyevka (Kaplino) in the Starooskolsky district of the Belgorod region... a village of 3000 residents... in the village there is a school, a children's art school, two first aid posts, the Church of the Intercession of the Holy Mother of God, a "5-ka" network (everything except the school was built recently)... that's it, I've finished my report on the dying of the Russian hinterland

[Victor Alien]

Now do you remember how much utilities cost in the city of the Balts? Oren region. In the regional center, my parents live in three-room apartments alone - utilities are 6000 rubles per month. I live in a house with 2 apartments in the village - for a YEAR, electricity and gas are only 15-18 thousand. Even if you add water - 7-8 cubic meters again per year - at least 500 rubles. The tax for the house and land is less than a thousand. Why do I need your cities and high-rise buildings?! Traffic jams on the roads and noise and din?!

[Nastia makarova]

What will happen if there is no suction?

[Mobik]

Where do such wild numbers come from? Approximately 1000 people from all over Lithuania receive 80 euros in Lithuania. The main part receives around 500-600. Which is not a great deal considering their prices.

[Pushkar]

Quote from nordscout

Saler, don't be so "sarcastic" about the Balts and the "Stone Age"... They have been "going to the Stone Age" quite well for the last 30 years, with an average pension of almost 1000 euros, being on a constant "suck" from the EU

And is 400 euros for this pensioner just for heating a two-room Khrushchev-era apartment normal? And also hot water by the meter, electricity, cold water by the meter, taxes, rent to the owner of the land on which the house stands (the land is private, the owner is in Sweden), public transport for pensioners "only" 50%, food and fuel are twice as expensive as here, the quality of food is lower. I am writing this about Riga. When I sent my payment bill to my residents of Riga, they almost cried - less than 80 euros for a similar apartment in the Moscow region. However, if you, nordscout, are so attracted by this 1000 euros, go live there.

[nordscout]

Saler, aka Stanislav, don't be so "sarcastic" about the Balts and the "Stone Age"... They have been "going to the Stone Age" quite well for the last 30 years, with an average pension of almost 1000 euros, being on a constant "suck" from the EU... Drive away from the First Throne, 150-200 kilometers, into the hinterland, and look at the village or county life there under the canopy of Russian capitalism with a "Gagarin smile"....

[Okko777]

and on February 9 it will be connected to the European energy system, which, in addition to the EU countries, includes Türkiye, Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco.

What interesting information! In the summer, our 1st block will be launched in Turkey and 70% of the electricity will be sold to the Turks for free at a fixed price of 12,5 cents.
https://yandex.ru/search/?text=%D0%B0%D1%8D%D1%81+%D0%B2+%D1%82%D1%83%D1%80%D1%86%D0%B8%D0%B8&clid=2411726&lr=213

In the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Turkey, the cost of a kilowatt (kilowatt-hour) of electricity is 12,5 cents. 70% of the volume generated by the first and second units will be sold at the price fixed in the agreement, and 30% - on the market.
tass.ru

The construction of the Akkuyu NPP is the first project in the global nuclear industry to be implemented using the build-own-operate model. Today, the project is fully financed by the Russian side.

And Turkey will resell this electricity to Europe at market prices, including to the Baltic countries. We will again finance a war against us! Money has no smell, you liberal shit?

[Captain Pushkin]

Quote: Okko777

In the intergovernmental agreement between Russia and Turkey, the cost of a kilowatt (kilowatt-hour) of electricity is 12,5 cents. 70% of the volume generated by the first and second units will be sold at the price fixed in the agreement, and 30% - on the market.

I pay about 5,5 cents per kilowatt-hour. The profitability of nuclear power plants in Turkey is several times higher than in the Russian Federation. That is why some people are ready to build new nuclear power plants abroad, but they should do it first and foremost at home, to ensure industrial growth.

[Nastia makarova]

For free? It costs 7 cents here.

[Okko777]

In Germany 40 rubles.
https://yandex.ru/video/preview/11416869143293649492

[Nastia makarova]

That's it, and many people complain that our tariffs are high

[storm]

Türkiye will resell this electricity to Europe at market prices,

Will not be!
The US has frozen a Russian bank account worth $2 billion, which is used to finance the construction of the AKKUYU nuclear power plant.

[Nastia makarova]

They will finance from another account.

[avdkrd]

Quote: Nastia Makarova

They will finance from another account.

This is what is scary. If there were bright minds who made a transaction through the correspondent account of an American bank, then apparently there will be a continuation, no one was shot at the Central Bank for a gift of 2 billion... I can bet that not only will they not shoot, but they will also share the kickback, and right away in the same American bank.

[Nastia makarova]

they will continue to do this, or they will find another bank

[Lemon]

Well, that's good! I was worried about how our enclave would be after the extermination of the limitrophobes.

[Montezuma]

Quote: Lemon

Well, that's good! I was worried about how our enclave would be after the extermination of the limitrophobes.

They had known about the Tribalt shutdown for a long time, so they were prepared for this event.

[Nexcom]

Well, at the slightest thing - bowls with fish oil and wicks in them - the return of the Balts to their historical origins....

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Lemon

I was worried about how our enclave would look after the extermination of the limitrophobes.

In terms of electricity production, we (our enclave!) are redundant.

As of the beginning of 2021, 10 power plants with a total capacity of 1918,6 MW were operating in the Kaliningrad region. These include seven thermal power plants - Kaliningradskaya TPP-2, Mayakovskaya TPP, Talakhovskaya TPP, Pregolskaya TPP, Primorskaya TPP, Gusevskaya TPP, TPP-10 of Atlas-Market LLC, two small hydroelectric power plants - Pravdinskaya HPP-3 and Ozerskaya HPP and one wind power plant - Ushakovskaya WPP. Another small Zaozernaya HPP with a capacity of 0,053 MW is mothballed[

This data is taken from a document of the Ministry of Infrastructure Development of the Kaliningrad Region. "Scheme and program for the prospective development of the electric power industry of the Kaliningrad region for 2022-2026."

[rocket757]

For now, it's still their business...
Delete and forget.

[Terenin]

Quote: rocket757

For now, it's still their business...
Delete and forget.

Yes. It's like at any market: -Would you like to buy some milk?
-No
- No, no, no trial, come on in. Next...

[rocket757]

Hi Gennady
Of course, the zonosa are in a certain place, but for now this is the least of our worries...
Although they are jumping around, getting out of themselves, but really serious problems can appear when/if everyone there goes crazy at the same time...
Unfortunately, there are more of them there, and suddenly we push them so hard that they all want to kill themselves against us...

[Uncle lee]

in the region is inevitable significant increase in electricity tariffs

To spite my grandma, I'll freeze my ears off!

[grandfather_Kostya]

However, just in case, they called on the population to charge their electronic devices and get generators

and also with torches, candles, kerosene torches... no, that won't work.

[evgen1221]

The tribalts are worried that the corridor will have to be cut through them.

[Mazunga]

it was inevitable in principle, considering the love for us from the countries of the gaskets, not just a corridor is needed, but a good piece with a reserve

[RSS_ZOV]

Yeah, as soon as we break through a corridor to the borders of the DPR by 2030, then it will be the turn of the Baltics.

[Skobaristan]

You have an old method, all these Z and V in the names and avatars give away the cyprus completely. You need to use neutral ones. Come on, you are acting like little children.))

[cmax]

Quote: Skobaristan

You have an old method, all these Z and V in the names and avatars give away the cyprus completely. You need to use neutral ones. Come on, you are acting like little children.))

Well, you are also a dreamer, we have not been able to figure out the Kursk issue for more than half a year. We must be realistic. All these, we will repeat, remained in the Soviet Army, with the army of Shoigu and his comrades, this is basically impossible. Now the army is fighting to its strength, villages are taken for months and with great sacrifices. Really, the war with Japan in 1905. A modern Potemkin village in action. The co-authors are known and nothing changes, only cosmetics in action. IMHO.

[Skobaristan]

The term Potemkin villages is a fabrication of the "Western partners" of that time, well, just for information. With the Kursk region, I have some suspicions that the whole situation is a gambit. And everything points to this, even with the fragmentary information that we have sitting on our couches. And the whole situation with Ukraine is not the whole picture, but only part of it. Z. Y oh yeah, about the Soviet Army.. Why do you think they didn't quickly resolve the issue in Afghanistan, and there wasn't even a regular army there, with moderate support from the West. You don't have to answer, just something to think about.

[cmax]

Quote: Skobaristan

The term Potemkin villages is a fabrication of the "Western partners" of that time, well, just for information. With the Kursk region, I have some suspicions that the whole situation is a gambit. And everything points to this, even with the fragmentary information that we have sitting on our couches. And the whole situation with Ukraine is not the whole picture, but only part of it. Z. Y oh yeah, about the Soviet army.. Why do you think the issue in Afghanistan was not resolved quickly? You don't have to answer, just to think about it.

I don't know, all these multi-move moves from the leadership are already enough and I think they are all that the troops are capable of at the present time. The longer the war, the stronger the influence of sanctions. All this "we don't give a damn" for us, reality is already forcing us to talk about negotiations. Today the cost of delivering Russian oil from Baltiysk has fallen below $60 (we sell at discounts of $15-19). And $60 is the ceiling set by the striped ones. When the income from selling only oil falls by 25%, I think that's a lot. It's like in a house, bringing in a much smaller salary, but you have to pay the mortgage.
I think it's true that Ukraine should have been dealt with now. The problem is that they were completely unprepared. And so the *painstaking* work of some people is coming back to haunt them. It's a shame.

[Skobaristan]

The sanctions will not be lifted in any case. And everyone understands this. And your passage about negotiations in connection with the sanctions is strange.

[cmax]

Quote: Skobaristan

The sanctions will not be lifted in any case. And everyone understands this. And your passage about negotiations in connection with the sanctions is strange.

Nothing strange, in this life everything passes sometime, both good and bad.

[Skobaristan]

A banal phrase that has nothing to do with the subject of the conversation. Oh well.

[cmax]

Quote: Skobaristan

A banal phrase that has nothing to do with the subject of the conversation. Oh well.

What, only your posts are relevant to the subject of discussion? I wrote it as I think. Never say never (The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens (1837). This is about sanctions, by the way!

[Skobaristan]

If anything, no one is going to lift the sanctions. And everyone knows about it. I'd like a historical example, easy: the Jackson-Vanik amendment against the USSR, which was cancelled... In 2012 and immediately introduced under the Magnitsky Act. Therefore, fairy tales about the lifting of sanctions can only be fed to preschool children. The VPR of the Russian Federation does not apply to them.

[cmax]

Quote: Skobaristan

If anything, no one is going to lift the sanctions. And everyone knows about it. I'd like a historical example, easy: the Jackson-Vanik amendment against the USSR, which was cancelled... In 2012 and immediately introduced under the Magnitsky Act. Therefore, fairy tales about the lifting of sanctions can only be fed to preschool children. The VPR of the Russian Federation does not apply to them.

Sanctions come in different forms. The amendments you mentioned above did not abolish trade between the USSR (Russia) and the USA, but only prohibited providing the most favored nation treatment in trade, and provided the opportunity to increase customs duties if necessary.
Even after Crimea, trade turnover between Russia and the US amounted to about $21 billion. (In 21 - $36 billion, in 22 - $16 billion.)
Everything in life happens in cycles: decline - rise, new - well-forgotten old.
And we'll live and see! That's all for now.

[guest]

Quote: cmax

The real war with Japan in 1905

Interestingly, Keolog has the same associations.

[Victor Alien]

Well, the metro could have been extended long ago at least towards Minsk. To break through what is necessary when there is something to break through - there will soon be a wasteland. Funny places along the Suvalsky corridor - the forest of the bald patch has different shapes, from a regular rectangular to just like a bald patch. And farmsteads ... like dirt. Judging by the Yandex satellite map, there are 4 buildings at a time at a point. There, it is definitely easier to thin out the Sun - to burn the forest in vain. Those partisan forests to clear - it is easier to take cities by siege. You can't sit in the concrete for long.

[Mig45jef]

Oui mais hé hé! Pas si vite. Maintenant il va falloir respecter les normes écologiques européennes et passer à l'éclairage led. Bonjour la belle lueur bleutée qui va envahir les domiciles comme dans les frigos à viande des années 50

[Boycott]

A ceremony will be held in Vilnius to mark the disconnection from the Russian power grid

People usually open something ceremoniously, spratlandia can only break. The USSR was never able to develop them to creation.

[RSS_ZOV]

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired. They made underground storage facilities, they will last for a couple of weeks of autonomy.

[private person]

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired.

I don't understand people who downvote obvious things. Here SP-1,2 blew up and the kakes blocked the transit, but cutting off Kaliningrad is like 2x2=4 if they want or rather get the order.

[yuriy55]

Quote: private person

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired.

The government prepared the region for such a scenario in advance. Thus, the power plants of the Kaliningrad region currently have a capacity of 1,88 GW, which exceeds the peak energy consumption in the region by two times.

In addition, Russia has experience in building nuclear power plants and floating nuclear power plants.

The floating nuclear power plant consists of a floating power unit, a coastal platform with structures that provide electrical and thermal energy to consumers, as well as hydraulic structures that ensure the safe mooring of the floating nuclear power unit in the water area.
The station's capacity is 70 MW of electricity and about 44 MW of thermal energy.

The whole SP-2 pipeline should have been bent into the KO... Let it have its own gas hub.
Let's see what happens to the Tribalts next. Their Russophobia is lower than before...

[hector]

Quote: yuriy55

The whole SP-2 pipeline should have been bent into the KO... Let it have its own gas hub.

This should have been done immediately, but they were not thinking about their own country, but about the profits of their dear partners.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

Quote: yuriy55

The whole SP-2 pipeline should have been bent into the KO... Let it have its own gas hub.

This should have been done immediately, but they were not thinking about their own country, but about the profits of their dear partners.

You are talking about 1972, when they joyfully, shouting “Ahead of schedule!!!” brought gas to NATO in Germany, forgetting to gasify their own country by at least 10 percent!!!

[hector]

And about this too. But the current ones so reviled the USSR and glorified themselves, but did not succeed in business in comparison with those.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

but did not succeed in business compared to those.

Well, yes, the current ones haven't yet torn the country apart compared to those. Those ones were able to...

[hector]

They first built, then got sick and destroyed it, the current ones continue to plunder the remains of those who did not build their own.

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

They first built, then got sick and destroyed it, the current ones continue to plunder the remains of those who did not build their own.

The Russian Federation has already existed for half the time of the USSR's existence.
In the USSR at this age the NSH had already arrived and started to act strangely - destroying what had been built before it...

[hector]

Quote: your1970

In the USSR at this age the NSH had already arrived and started to act strangely - destroying what had been built before it...

But still, he also managed to build something

[your1970]

Quote: ettore

Quote: your1970

In the USSR at this age the NSH had already arrived and started to act strangely - destroying what had been built before it...

But still, he also managed to build something

Well, the current ones have also managed to do something - for example, gasify the country since 1986 with 6℅ (including bottled gas) ) in rural areas - up to 60 with a bit.
The USSR couldn't do that...

[Brturin]

Not all stations are gas-powered - Primorskaya is coal-powered, they will shut it down later, the LNG receiving terminal was put into operation back in 2019, it is currently in reserve, if necessary they will launch it, the LNG plant is at least in Vysotsk, the delivery distance is minimal...

[private person]

Not all stations are gas-fired - Primorskaya is coal-fired,

And coal, again, is imported and through the territory of the Tribalts.

[Nastia makarova]

No. Shipping by sea.
..

[Anatole Klim]

Quote: private person

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired.

I don't understand people who downvote obvious things. Here SP-1,2 blew up and the kakes blocked the transit, but cutting off Kaliningrad is like 2x2

To improve energy and economic security, Gazprom has found an alternative to the transit gas pipeline, which was previously the only route for gas supplies to the Russian semi-enclave sandwiched between Lithuania and Poland. Thus, by 2019, a gas receiving terminal was built in the waters and on the coast of the Baltic Sea, the key element of which is a stationary berth with a breakwater located five kilometers from the shore, which makes it possible to moor ships with liquefied natural gas (LNG). According to Konstantin Simonov, Director of the National Energy Security Fund, Russia is ready to stop gas supplies via Lithuania. https://www.mk-kaliningrad.ru/economics/2022/02/09/kak-gazprom-obespechivaet-gazom-kaliningrad.html

[Sergey39]

Why, you are not writing the truth, or rather, you are lying. A terminal has been built in the village of Romanova to receive liquefied gas from the "Marshal Vasilevsky" and a large gas storage facility. One new reserve power plant runs on coal.

[ss29]

Well, not people, but Uryapatriots. They have their own fictional world. Any contact with reality causes them suffering. In their world, they are expecting NATO's capitulation any day now, and here comes the realization that the border states can cause damage...

[Sergey39]

You are not true! Taking into account gas consumption in the Kaliningrad region, there are reserves for 4 months. And, the gas carrier "Marshall Vasilevsky" is assigned to the gas unloading terminal. The delivery leg from Ust-Luga is small.

[guest]

Quote: RSS_ZOV

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired.

Well, it was necessary to make a branch from the Northern Stream to Kaliningrad a long time ago.

[guest]

Are those who voted against having gas in Kaliningrad?

[your1970]

Quote: RSS_ZOV

When they cut off the gas pipe to Kaliningrad, then it will be fun because all our thermal power plants and thermal power stations are gas-fired. They made underground storage facilities, they will last for a couple of weeks of autonomy.

LNG, huh? And for such a case, the gas carrier can be accepted under the flag of the Russian Navy

[BMS]

All that remains is to dismantle the Soviet totalitarian asphalt from the democratic Baltic roads and the path to a bright future will be illuminated by the northern lights

[Nexcom]

The communist sewerage and water supply must also be uprooted - decommunize, and do it to the fullest! and what kind of half measures are these? all the soviet buildings - blow them to hell and here it is - a new decommunized life!

[BMS]

I despise freaks who try to blacken the history of their country

[PN]

Well, that's not good. The Belarusians built their nuclear power plant using our credit, with the expectation of selling electricity to Europe. They planned to pay us back the credit with that money...

[private person]

Well, that's not good. The Belarusians built their nuclear power plant using our credit, with the expectation of selling electricity to Europe.

Well, they built it and they built it, and the Turks were also given a loan for the construction of a nuclear power plant, a whopping 2 billion, which the Americans ultimately pocketed.

[your1970]

Quote: private person

the Turks were also given a loan for the construction of a nuclear power plant of 2 billion, which the Americans ultimately pocketed.

12,7 cents per kilowatt our - considering that in the Russian Federation it is approximately 5,6 cents for the population. Do you see the difference?

[hector]

Quote: PN

Well, that's not good. The Belarusians built their nuclear power plant using our credit, with the expectation of selling electricity to Europe. They planned to pay us back the credit with that money...

Belarusians pay all their loans regularly; not a single debt has been written off for them, unlike some others.

[Brturin]

At the same time, they are also saving on gas - not yet for 2024, for 2023 - Belarus reduced its natural gas consumption by 2023 billion cubic meters in 1,7, to 17 billion cubic meters. This was reported by the Minister of Energy of the Republic, Viktor Karankevich. "The volume of natural gas consumption last year amounted to 17 billion cubic meters, a decrease compared to the 2022 level of 1,7 billion cubic meters, or 9,6%" ... Since the inclusion of its first power unit in the unified energy system, the Belarusian NPP has generated 25,4 billion kWh of electricity, over the entire period of its operation, this has made it possible to replace 6,7 billion cubic meters of natural gas. https://tass.ru/ekonomika/20066391
6,7 billion cubic meters m at a tariff of $127 per 1000 is about $850 million

[HAM]

In the summer, guests from Latvia came to visit our neighbors: we almost choked with anger and envy... It turns out that in the stores and markets there are natural products, not European "plastic", the prices (they calculate everything in euros) are low... Damn, and the lights on the streets are on all night...

[Nexcom]

...we should have offered them used clothes and dry rations as help - they would have burst with anger! and batteries with flashlights.

[Nexcom]

What, did they run out of cheese and lard in the Baltics?? It's good that they didn't take sprats with them - then I would have laughed for sure...

[HAM]

That's what I'm talking about... .......

[Huarabey]

Do they turn off the lights on the streets at night?

[HAM]

They were sure that we hadn't invented light bulbs yet...

[Boa kaa]

The next step will be a ban on the supply of fuel by rail: heating oil, LNG, coal. Peat is available locally. All this will have to be delivered by sea, and fuel terminals in the port infrastructure will have to be expanded. All these are stages of the EU economic sanctions against the Russian Federation. But underwater cables tend to break at the most inopportune moment. The border states have stepped onto the thin ice of an economic war with an energy giant... The depopulation of these territories has reached a critical level, and will now definitely accelerate.
But, as always, the RUSSIANS ARE TO BLAME for everything!!!

[Sergey39]

Lithuania is already putting a spoke in our wheels with the transit of goods by rail, raising tariffs and creating other obstacles for the passage of goods.
The issue has been resolved, all prohibited and strategic cargo is shipped by sea. There are enough ferries and container ships. Plus, the Turks have built two new gas-powered ferries. There was a problem with the delivery of automobile transport, but at the end of last year, a ferry was launched to the newly opened terminal in Pionersky.

[Boa kaa]

Quote: Sergey39

At the end of last year, a ferry was launched to the newly opened terminal in the city of Pionersky.

Sergey,
I know - I live in Baltiysk, the terminal was built in Pionersky.

[Vladlous]

This shutdown is not as harmless as it may seem. Behind the Baltics' concern for their safety lies their intention to prepare the ground for conflict.

All ties with Russia are being severed specifically for the future armed confrontation. There is no longer any doubt about this. Stopping and inspecting our tankers in the Baltic is in the same piggy bank. And the trick is that the isolation of the Kaliningrad region and the rupture of the BRELL are actions aimed at diverting our resources and forces from the Northern direction, where the real battle for the Arctic is approaching.

I believe that the conflict in Ukraine and the upcoming events in the Baltics, in the Baltics and in Scandinavia are aimed at forcing us to disperse our forces. However, this is, of course, one of the goals, in fact they have many goals. How will we respond to all this? If we respond.

[ergh081]

You are right, this is another step in preparation for war. And there is nothing funny about it. I would advise residents of the Kaliningrad region to move to the mainland in advance, otherwise what happened in the Belgorod and Kursk regions could happen.

[Sergey39]

Everything is fine, tonight we had a transition, without any interruptions, to an autonomous supply of electricity to the region.
They have been preparing for this event for five years. In addition to the existing stations, four new stations have been built in different parts of the region. Three on gas and one reserve on coal. The problem with the energy flow has been solved. A terminal for receiving liquefied gas or the gas carrier 'Marshall Vasilevsky' and a large gas storage facility have been built. The nuclear power plant has been abandoned and an industrial enterprise for the production of lithium batteries is being built on its foundation.
And, for the "Baltic bugs", electricity will become more expensive, plus a problematic link, a cable along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to Sweden. But they freed themselves from the imaginary dependence of the Russian Federation and Belarus.

[fsvlad]

The region's electricity supply will be provided by Kaliningrad TPP-2 and four thermal power plants.

From a formal point of view, there are no problems. But they may appear soon. Fuel for these stations is imported. Gas enters the region through Lithuania, and the transit agreement, valid until the end of 2025, is not going to be extended by the Labus. Fuel oil and coal are transported via the Baltic. But the situation there is also tense. A nuclear power plant of its own would be an ideal option. But, alas...

[born007]

In order not to lose the outgoing Kilowatts, I propose to allow mining right along the Baltic border, so that they will envy silently.

[Alexander X]

This is some kind of brain inflammation in the poibalts. To refuse something that is profitable for them for the sake of the desire to at least somehow try to screw Russia over. Insanity... True, they refused cheap gas. "...." © S. Lavrov.

[KrolikZanuda]

It was a shame that the Kaliningrad Nuclear Power Plant was not completed, oh, it was a shame.

[Melior]

They are preparing for war, however, and as part of this preparation, untying their energy system from the energy system of a future enemy is a very correct decision!

[Sergey Zhikharev]

And if the war starts, won't they hit the European fuel and energy complex? Or is it a matter of a deal?

[Melior]

They are counting on the fact that the Russian one will definitely be destroyed, but the European one may not.

[storm]

A branch line from the Nord Stream pipeline needs to be made to Kaliningrad in order to convert all Kaliningrad thermal power plants to gas.
It's surprising that they didn't do this right away...

[nordscout]

Dear storm, it has become difficult with domestic "think tanks", and in "Gazprom" everything is "sharpened" for instant effect and profit, there is practically no one to advise and recommend.... True, recently, "Gazprom" proposed to increase tariffs for gas and its transportation, so as not to reduce their own salaries.... And you, about some Kaliningrad with some "branches", from SP-2, in its direction.... It's just funny, by God....

[Hitriy Zhuk]

We need a glass highway to the Kaliningrad region.
The Three Balts have long deserved to become this highway.

[Sergey Kulikov_3]

In this way, the authorities of these countries hope to deprive Russia of the opportunity to use electric power as an instrument of geopolitical pressure.

It’s good that they didn’t accuse me of committing rape, since I have the tools.

[Hitriy Zhuk]

To mark the disconnection from the Russian energy system, a ceremony will be held in Vilnius, attended by the leaders of the Baltic states and the head of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.

I'd like to hit it there.
And for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to directly say, “and this will happen to everyone who is aggressive towards the Russian Federation and does not respect diplomacy.”

[log]

But the Suwalki corridor will still have to be broken through. Or the Baltics will have to be annexed. But that will be after the war.

[HAYMARS]

Why are they so Russophobic?