Energy in Lithuania

[2] Long-term aims were defined in the National Energy Independence strategy in 2012 by Lietuvos Seimas.

All of these infrastructure projects allowed Lithuania to quickly cut its reliance on Russian energy supplies.

[6] CO2 emissions:11.69 million tons In order to break down Gazprom's monopoly[8][9] in the natural gas market of Lithuania, Klaipėda LNG FSRU, the first large scale LNG import terminal in the Baltic region, was built in port of Klaipėda in 2014.

Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant has 100 MW of capacity and supplies about 3% of the electrical demand in Lithuania.

[20] Lithuania has also changed the law to make it easier from a planning and environmental aspect to install solar farms.

Lithuania has allocated €50m to create a green hydrogen system of 65 megawatts (MW) with an annual volume of more than 8,000 tons, to be completed by 2027.

[22] Visaginas's Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant once provided 70% of Lithuania's electricity and exported energy to elsewhere in the Soviet Union.

A new nuclear power plant in Visaginas has been proposed but the status of the project is uncertain after it was rejected by the voters in a referendum in 2012.

[25] Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, Lithuania halted all import of Russian electricity in May 2022[26] On 8 February 2025 at 9:09 AM (UTC+2), Lithuania, together with Latvia and Estonia, have permanently disconnected and left the Russian-led BRELL synchronous electricity transmission grid and the next day, on 9 February, synchronized with Continental Europe.