The Baltic countries Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania will decouple from Russia's electricity grid this weekend. New connections to EU grids in Finland, Sweden, and Poland will take over.
https://nos.nl/l/2554969
@Sustainable2050 quick question. Is that the existing dc connection?, or are their new synchronous connections?
@ekg @Sustainable2050 all connections exist already. What is done now is the frequency sinchronization to the european grid and cutting the last remaining connections to the russian, belorussian grid. The baltic states have work toward this goal for about 20 years and have accellerated the plans since 2022 and are cutting the last remaining connections a year ahead of the original scedule.
@useravoiding @Sustainable2050 so, are their new synchronous connections, or are they isolated?
@ekg @Sustainable2050 for now the Baltic states are isolated working in a standalone regime but on the 9th they'll join the european grid through the connections to Finland, Sweden and Polland.
@useravoiding @Sustainable2050 so with Poland?, I highly doubt they will put ac cables across the sea, the reactive power would be a menace at that distance.
@ekg @Sustainable2050 All connections exist already: mainland Polland - Lithuania, undersea cables Lithuania - Sweden and Estonia - Finland
@useravoiding @Sustainable2050 those are dc. They have to get ac connections, if they want to be synchronous.
@ekg @Sustainable2050 No, they have sinchonization plants that do it.