EU to set out plans to halt Russian gas imports by end-2027 🔹EU to publish roadmap to phase out Russian energy 🔹Plan includes end-2027 ban on Russian gas imports, sources say 🔹Could pave way for more U.S. LNG Coming up today. Story with @liliebayer.bsky.social www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

I don't get it: why are #Spain and #Portugal setting up a task force to figure out what caused the #blackout. They could just open up their twitter and find out. So many people not only know the cause, but have solutions on hand, too. /s #energysky montelnews.com/news/d865eee...

Fortunately the remedies remain mostly the same, whether they genuinely were accidents or not. Confiscate the ships, try the crews, and auction anything valuable found to cover the damages unless the crew or ship owners fork out enough cash. Should stop the incidents eventually either way.

9:09 AM this morning all three Baltic states disconnected from the Russian IPS/UPS system. Tests are being performed today (50% done at the moment) and tomorrow we join the Continental European grid. Oil in 2006, gas in 2014, electricity 2025. Looks like we're free. #energysky #baltics #russia

Journalistic practices from @financialtimes.com ▪️Anonymous sources (always a hallmark of bad reporting); ▪️Support from "some German and Hungarian officials with support from other capitals (read: Slovakia)" presented as "EU debates"; www.ft.com/content/a19a... 1/2

EUROPE’s summer-winter gas calendar spread has marched deeper into backwardation as traders anticipate the region will have to pay much higher prices to refill storage in the summer of 2025 than it did in the summers of 2024 and 2023.

Intercepted phone calls and documents obtained by us reveal how Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko’s regime weaponized migration to undermine the EU. 🔗 ow.ly/PiPh50ULFZn

#Russia #Energy #Baltics #synchronisation #EuropeanGrid #BRELL There have been some cable cutting in the Baltic Sea. These happened in context: on Feb. 7-9 Baltic countries (Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia) are about to leave Russian power system and connect to Continental European grid. 1/9

#EnergySky #Baltic #infrastructure #NATO *Deep NATO Concern Over Deep-Sea Baltic Infrastructure*: A Thread 👉 What happened: A meeting of representatives from NATO allies around the Baltic Sea was held in Finland on 15th Jan, 2025, to discuss the protection of underwater infrastructure. 1/

The YI PENG 3 was also close to damage the Nordbalt power cable between Sweden and Lithuania Swedish Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin informed today. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

#USsanctions #Russia #LNG #EnergySky A couple of points to dull the sharp sharp headlines on European gas market today: ▪️Yamal LNG, the only Russian LNG export project of significance in Europe, is not on the new US list. 1/

As last gasps of Gazprom in Europe get even shallower there are so many horrible takes on European gas market it makes me quite nostalgic for the sort of propaganda Nord Stream 2 AG used to produce.

END OF AN ERA: Russia's oldest gas export route to Europe halted For over five decades, Europe benefited from a (relatively) steady flow of Russian gas via pipelines in Ukraine. That deal has now expired While that won't trigger shortages in Europe, it does mark a historic shift Thread🧵

What can Slovak threats on stopping electricity deliveries to Ukraine mean? It is not so straightforward – here my interpretation:

#Estlink 2 is down. What of it? What impact will it have on the power systems and related processes on both sides of the interconnector? Let us see. 1/

Finnish border guard arrested cable saboteur suspect EAGLE S and ordered them into Finland. This happened in international waters. Precisely the thing every expert said was impossible with Yi Peng 3 =)

This sanctioned Russian LNG shipment traveled around the world looking for a buyer. Now it's giving up🚢 🇷🇺 A dark fleet tanker loaded gas at Arctic LNG 2 in August. It just docked at a Russian port to likely put the gas into storage 🇺🇸 Buyers dont want to break US restrictions

Baltics planned to decouple from Russian Electric network on Feb 2025. Severed ESTLINK2 between Finland and Estonia is direct current. So not directly contributing to network stability, but having enough power reserves from abroad will be important to baltics. elering.ee/en/baltic-ts...

Yeah, this looks like a perfect match. And not just because it was right there at the right time but because it didn't just sail through with steady velocity like Xin Xin Tian 2 seems to have done.

Excellent quick summary on the status quo in the #Baltic #Sea region. I would have chosen even harsher language to describe the inability to cooperate not only between PL-DE, but btw Baltics as well. Yeah, #EnergySky, this is what is happening in the Baltic Sea region energy-wise at the moment.

The new #nuclear hype, if you'd ask me, seems to be hype and not much more. Come on, people, bring us something tangible: your project cost estimates, potential CfD levels, or even better – successful greenfield/brownfield projects to orient ourselves by. Something. Anything. #EnergySky

All kinds of destroyers

Here's Russian state media admitting that Assad's job was to make sure no pipelines went through Syria into Turkey so that all that cheaper Saudi and Qatari LNG never hurt Russia's gas monopoly, the one Putin lost anyway by invading Ukraine.

EU agency on energy regulation (ACER) just published its 2023 country sheets on electricity retail markets. Especially that data from all the national regulators + REMIT (in yellow) is nice to have in one place. www.acer.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

Yeah, at first tried to dock in Klaipėda, a port that has a #FSRU in the middle. Lovely neighbors we have.

Perhaps the only special knowledge one can have about the #European #gas #markets for this gas year today is a very accurate mid-term weather report. The rest, I'd wager, are selling snake oil. #ttf #energysky

Hvis man sejler 400 km gennem Østersøen med sænket anker for at smadre internationale internetkabler, så forlader man ikke Østersøen uskadt. Nu er det nok. Der skal svares proportionalt tilbage på den slags. Den skade de forvolder på os skal gengældes. Vi får ikke fred ved at finde os i den slags.

#baltics #energysky #res #power #grid Litgrid, Lithuanian power TSO, is launching the North-West Grid Expansion Project (planning and EIA tender). It will see the construction of new power lines and sets me up well for some #very #geeky local context. 1/9

The Department of Energy referring to US LNG as "freedom gas" in every press release for the next four years

Left: average power price for each hour and week Right: average solar generation for each hour and week

Gazprom is in such bad shape that it has frozen construction of a new office center in Kazan, Tatarstan. But there is money for the war, but not for new offices

#gas #ttf #prices #discussion #energysky Some turbulent times on the gas market, huh? ⛔ OMV lost the supply of contracted Russian gas (market seemingly did not lose the gas since Kremlin needs cash like it needs air or for its soldiers to perish in their thousands). 1/7

Overly dramatic, but Gazprom is losing it's last clients, so who other than certain Bloomberg journalists will bring the drama. Otherwise - yes, seems to be the first anomalously cold start to the heating season since Putin's friends went from FA to FO.

Serbia and Russia are working to find a solution for unimpeded gas supplies to Serbia in connection with new US sanctions against Gazprombank, according to Dusan Bajatovic, CEO of the state-owned company Srbijagas. They hope that the new US administration will have a different approach.

In many ways, the alleged ICBM strike appears primarily intended to restore intimidating integrity to its nuclear strong-arming tactics, which normally require demonstrating will and ability to follow up threats with action. Putin's hitherto 'all bark and no bite' modus operandi is not it

A reasonable thread about the first ever combat use of an ICBM(ish).

Regarding the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3: The Danish Defence can confirm that we are present in the area near the Chinese ship Yi Peng 3. The Danish Defence currently has no further comments.

So the second #Lithuanian #offshore #wind #tender is on (Nov 18 – Mar 18). What’s on offer? Rights to build and operate an 700 MW offshore wind park in a scouted area with a 15y indexed CfD in a range of €75-126/MWh. 1/6

#Author’s_note: #Hello, #Bluesky. Here‘s what I am going to do here. Most weeks I do weekly roundups of energy business and energy policy news in Lithuania and the immediate region. It‘s a hobby – my journalistic beat shifted away from energy so this helps keep my energy chops fresh. 1/3

Chinese-flagged cargo ship Yi Peng 3 crossed both submarine cables C-Lion 1 and BSC at times matching when they broke. She was shadowed by Danish navy for a while during night and is now in Danish Straits leaving Baltics. No signs of boarding. AIS-caveats apply.

#undersea #infrastructure #baltic #damage Internet cables damaged under the Baltic. Again. LTU-SWE & FI-DE. I wonder who. No energy infrastructure was damaged this time so I have little to contribute, but I'm following this thread.