The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

    • RubberDuckEnglish
      40•4 months ago

      Pretty big legacy system to overhaul.

      • @[email protected]English
        0•3 months ago

        It sounds like a nice sentiment but I hope it doesn’t lead to Texas-like problems for them.

        • RubberDuckEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          They are now connected to the European grid. Via the sulweki gap to Poland and by sea cables to Finland. Texas is just very… very… very… special.

    • @AqariusEnglish
      19•3 months ago

      Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren’t.

      This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com

      • @[email protected]English
        3•3 months ago

        I know these things in the back of my head, but I never think about them. like during the opening shots of the second Gulf War, when they use those cruise missiles that didn’t have warheads, they just had a bunch of carbon filament wires to dump on their power substations; like that makes total sense but I had no clue that we did shit like that