The Baltic region is making a significant progress in developing functioning regional natural gas market, expanding and integrating the related infrastructure, and ensuring the security of supply.
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The relationship between the EU and Russia is characterised by a considerable degree of interdependence.
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In the last half-decade, the three Baltic states have made dramatic progress towards diversifying their energy supplies, especially of natural gas. This progress—brought about thanks to remarkable political will as well as improved regional cooperation—has resulted in considerable economic benefit while decreasing the three countries’ vulnerability to outside pressure. Yet, much remains to be done in order to complete the three countries’ internal markets.
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The Russian political economy is on the move.
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“We are a flat country with no strategic depth,” says Sven Sakkov, director of the government-led think tank International Centre for Defence and Security.
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ICDS Fellow Researcher Kalev Stoicescu explained to Russian language Voice of America the background of separation of Baltic states’ electicity grids from the Russian/Belarussian system.
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In 2015, the Baltic states declared their intent to withdraw from the BRELL agreement and desynchronize their power grids from the IPS/UPS synchronous area to which they still belong as part of the legacy of Soviet occupation.
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Subsidies in the electricity industry increase final cost for consumers
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In a wide-ranging interview on Polish radio station Wnet’s Poranka (Morning) program on September 19, non-resident research fellow Emmet Tuohy focused on the priorities of Estonian energy policy–especially as reflected during Estonia’s current presidency of the Council of the European Union–while also touching upon more general security issues.
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The electricity grids of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania are still synchronised with Russia and Belarus in the framework of the so-called BRELL agreement.
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