List of power stations in Lithuania
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The following page lists all power stations in Lithuania
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Lithuania
Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the biggest of the three Baltic states. It is situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, whereby to the west lie Sweden and Denmark...
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Name | Town | Coordinates | Type | Capacity | Years | Notes |
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Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant The Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant is a closed two-unit RBMK-1500 nuclear power station in Visaginas, Lithuania. It was named after the nearby city of Ignalina... |
Ignalina Ignalina Ignalina is a city in eastern Lithuania, famous for the Ignalina Nuclear Power Plant in nearby Visaginas. It is said that Ignalina name got its name from Ignas and Lina, two lovers with quite popular Lithuanian names. Even though there are archeological evidences that people lived in Ignalina area... |
55.6055297°N 26.5624094°E | Nuclear | 1500 MW | 1984–2009 | Two RBMK RBMK RBMK is an initialism for the Russian reaktor bolshoy moshchnosti kanalniy which means "High Power Channel-type Reactor", and describes a class of graphite-moderated nuclear power reactor which was built in the Soviet Union. The RBMK reactor was the type involved in the Chernobyl disaster... reactors. Shut down by the European Union European Union The European Union is an economic and political union of 27 independent member states which are located primarily in Europe. The EU traces its origins from the European Coal and Steel Community and the European Economic Community , formed by six countries in 1958... |
Elektrėnai Power Plant Elektrenai Power Plant The Elektrėnai Power Plant or Lithuania Power Plant is an 1,800-MW electrical generating station near Elektrėnai, Lithuania, about west of Lithuania's capital, Vilnius. It is operated by Lietuvos Elektrinė, a subsidiary of Lietuvos Energija.... |
Elektrėnai | 54.7697761°N 24.647913°E | Fossil fuel | 1800 MW | 1962–present | Cooled by the Elektrėnai Reservoir Elektrenai Reservoir Elektrėnai Reservoir , located south of the city of Elektrėnai, Lithuania, is the third-biggest artificial lake in Lithuania. It was created in 1961 by damming the Strėva River. It supplies cooling water to the 1,800 MW Elektrėnai Power Plant. A number of villages were drowned by the reservoir;... |
Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant Klaipeda Geothermal Demonstration Plant The Klaipėda Geothermal Demonstration Plant is a geothermal heating plant in Klaipėda, Lithuania, constructed during the late 1990s and early 2000s. It was the first geothermal heating plant in the Baltic Sea region... |
Klaipėda | 55.6844741°N 21.2017894°E | Geothermal | 35 MW | 2001–present | |
Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant The Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant, located on the Nemunas River about southeast of downtown Kaunas, Lithuania, was completed in 1960. Its dam created the Kaunas Reservoir. Owned by Lietuvos Energija, it operates in conjunction with the Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant.The plant, which has a... |
Kaunas | 54.8739893°N 23.9994836°E | Hydroelectric | 100 MW | 1960–present | Created Kaunas Reservoir |
Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant Kruonis Pumped Storage Plant is located near Kruonis, Lithuania, east of Kaunas. Its main purpose is to provide a spinning reserve of the power system, to regulate the load curve of the power system 24 hours a day. It operates in conjunction with the Kaunas Hydroelectric Power Plant... |
Kruonis | 54.7990769°N 24.2470837°E | Hydroelectric | 900 MW | 1992–present | 4 units, 225 MW each |
Vilnius Power Plant | Vilnius | Fossil fuel | 1903–1998 | The first power station in Lithuania | ||
Vilnius Combined Heat and Power Plant | Vilnius | 54.6677508°N 25.1558805°E | Fossil fuel | 384 MW | 1951–present | |
Kaunas Combined Heat and Power Plant | Kaunas | 54.9211614°N 24.0188169°E | Fossil fuel | 170 MW | 1975–present | |
Mažeikiai Combined Heat and Power Plant | Mažeikiai | 56.38425°N 22.1841002°E | Fossil fuel | 160 MW | 1979–present | Serves oil refinery ORLEN Lietuva |
See also
- List of power stations in Europe
- List of largest power stations in the world