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In Lithuania – wind to take over from nuclear power?

Lithuania May Partly Replace Nuclear Power With Wind, Lobby Says Bloomberg, By Torsten Fagerholm – Nov 19, 2012 An expansion of wind power in Lithuania may help the country to improve its energy independence and offset a shortfall caused by closure of nuclear capacity.
Installed wind power capacity is likely double to 500 megawatts by 2015, five years ahead of schedule, paving the way for energy independence without nuclear power, according to Lithuania’s wind energy association.  Last month, more than 60 percent of voters in a non-binding referendum rejected construction of a nuclear reactor that’s intended to replace the Ignalina atomic plant.

“The newly elected government will have to make a new energy strategy, where onshore and offshore wind power possibly could take the place of nuclear power,” Aleksandras Paulauskas, the wind association’s executive director, said today by e-mail.

While plans by developers to build as much as 4,000 megawatts of onshore wind capacity are unlikely to be realized, new cross-border cables will help feed as much as 1,000 megawatts of wind power into the national grid, with a 700- megawatt link to Sweden and one of 500 megawatts to Poland, Paulauskas said. Both are expected to become operational in December 2015, along with a new 250-megawatt generator at the Kruonis pumped storage hydropower plant. They can be used by public utility Lietuvos Energija AB (LNR1L) to offset wind-power fluctuations, he said. … http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-11-20/lithuania-may-partly-replace-nuclear-power-with-wind-lobby-says.html

November 21, 2012 - Posted by | EUROPE, renewable

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