Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan GRIP 2017

3.5 Lithuania

3.5.1 ENERGY POLICY

Lithuania’s National Energy Strategy emphasises the main provisions for determin- ing development of energy sector, its implementation directions up to 2030 and guidelines for 2050. The key priorities include energy security, diversification of energy supply, energy efficiency and integration of Lithuania’s energy network with the energy systems of the European Union (the EU). During the last decade Lithuania’s energy sector has been successfully restructured in compliance with applicable requirements of legal acts of the EU, possibilities for the diversification of energy resources have been established, measures for environ- mental protection have been applied, etc. Lithuania has successfully coped with the task of implementing the EU’s Third Energy Package, which stipulates the unbundling of gas transmission, distribution and supply functions. Lithuania’s gas sector has aimed to secure gas transmission to Lithuania’s consum- ers and efficiently develop its gas transmission system by integrating it into the European gas market network and bringing possibilities for the diversification of en- ergy sources. Klaipėda Liquefied Natural Gas terminal (the LNG terminal), which was put into operation in December 2014, was one of Lithuanias’s main achieve- ments and it introduced competition to the gas sector and substantively increased energy security in the Baltic region. Thus, it has allowed for energy source diversifi- cation in the Baltic region.

3.5.2 MARKET PLAYERS

Natural Gas Market Value Chain consists of natural gas supply, transmission and distribution. In 2016, nearly 10 importers operated in Lithuania, out of which the major ones were AB Achema, UAB Lietuvos Dujų Tiekimas and UAB LITGAS. In 2016, natural gas imports amounted to 24.2TWh for users in Lithuania and other Baltic States: over 60% of the gas originated from the Klaipėda LNG terminal and the remainder came from Russia.

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Figure 3.26: The major importers of natural gas to Lithuania, 2016 (%) (Source: AB Amber Grid)

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