Russia cancels Kaliningrad power network isolation test
23/06/2022 19:24
WARSAW, June 23 (Reuters) - Russia's power grid told
Litgrid, its counterpart in Lithuania, that it has canceled the
planned isolation operation test of the electricity network of
the Kaliningrad exclave, Litgrid said on Thursday.
The test, which was due to begin on Saturday, would have
involved Kaliningrad region disconnecting from the common grid
of Baltic states, Russia and Poland for 8 hours to test its
capacity to operate independently, Litgrid said. Three similar
tests were conducted in 2019-2021, it said.
Baltic states expect to decouple from the common grid in
2025, necessitating Kaliningrad, sandwiched between NATO members
Poland and Lithuania, to operate on its own.
Lithuania's president told Reuters on Wednesday his country
is ready for Russia to try to kick it off the grid imminently,
as a punishment for blocking cargo sanctioned by the European
Union from traveling from mainland Russia to the exclave.
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(Reporting by Anrius Sytas in Warsaw
Editing by Matthew Lewis)
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