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Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian power systems synchronised with Europe
- fifilura 2y agoA couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42971959
- bovermyer 2y agoDoes this mean these states are no longer dependent on Russian electricity?
- vidarh 2y agoThat ended a while ago, but they remained dependent on the Russian energy network for synchronisation. That has now ended.
- falcor84 2y agoI would assume so based on: > All electricity interconnections with Russia and Belarus have been permanently disconnected.
- tuukkah 2y agoThey haven't been using Russian electricity since 2022.
- blibble 2y agoI was expecting the russians to try more than just wrecking some underseas cables to try and stop this I guess they're otherwise engaged
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- stogot 2y agoSo much of this war backfired for Putin. Expanded the NATO border across Russia’s northern border, ended electric revenue in the Baltics, ended NordStream, ended gas supply across Ukraine, dependence on China & India for oil markets (Xi gets to dictate terms now), destruction of entire military equipment and mothballed reserves, and the embarrassment of relying on DPRK for manpower, exit of Western businesses, frozen and sold assets stored in western banks
- bdangubic 2y agoyou mean America strategically did all that and then some…? :)
- blibble 2y agothis one's a triple whammy, putin now has: 1. no ability to sell electricity to baltics 2. no ability to disrupt baltic grid 3. managed to island russian enclave of koingsberg, giving control of its energy supply to the baltics (they could now cut off its gas) so much winning
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- Symbiote 2y agoNote this disconnection was planned after the Russian invasion of Crimea in 2014.
- StefanBatory 2y agoWith the ascension of Trump to power, NATO might be irrelevant.
- stogot 2y agoI disagree with the theory but even if, It won’t be irrelevant, and can/will continue without US if needed. Either way, Russia is too weak to invade another sovereign nation for the next four years
- csense 2y agoDoes that mean they have cables physically connecting their AC grids to the European AC grid? How many megawatts can those cables transfer? Which direction is the transfer going to be? Will they be buying electricity from Europe or selling electricity to Europe? > All electricity interconnections with Russia and Belarus have been permanently disconnected. How many megawatts were those connections?
- tuukkah 2y ago> Does that mean they have cables physically connecting their AC grids to the European AC grid? Yes, in the Suwalki Gap (border between Poland and Lithuania). Until this point, the connections were HVDC including to Sweden and Finland (across the Baltic Sea). > Will they be buying electricity from Europe or selling electricity to Europe? They already participate in the EU electricity market (through the HVDC lines), some hours buying cheap power from clean sources, sometimes selling expensive non-renewable power.
- Symbiote 2y agoNote that Finland and Sweden aren't on the European Continental grid, but the Scandinavian grid, which has its border within Denmark. Thiis means there's now an additional route for Finland to sell power even further south.
- tuukkah 2y agoDo you happen to have a link to a news item saying something changes for Finland? You are the first one I see mentioning this - I suppose because the HVDC lines were already there.
- Symbiote 2y agoI'm mistaken, the existing link between Lithuania and Poland was already in use, and the new one isn't built yet: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Link https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmony_Link
- quercusa 2y agoHere's at least one of the tools for achieving synchronization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchroscope
- kyriakos 2y agoThere's a cable planned to be laid out between Cyprus and mainland Europe to connect electricity grids, project is called East Mediterranean Interconnect. It's next step would be connection between Cyprus and Israel. Turkey not very happy about it at the moment according to https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/03/new-turkish-power-play-over-the-greece-cyprus-electricity-interconnector/ https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/02/03/new-turkish-power-play...