With a recently signed Memorandum of Understanding, DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory Will Help Lithuania Develop Plans to Achieve 100% Clean Electricity
WASHINGTON, D.C.- US Energy Secretary Jennifer M. Granholm and Lithuanian Energy Minister Dainius Kreivys signed a historic agreement on enhanced cooperation to help achieve Lithuania’s goals of energy security and transition to a climate neutral energy sector. The result of long-standing cooperation between the two countries in energy policy, this first Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aims to better prepare the Lithuanian energy sector to meet climate-related threats.
“The US Department of Energy truly values our strong and consistent relationship with Lithuania, and this MoU further strengthens our collaboration with our European allies at this important time in history,” said Secretary Granholm. “We are excited for Lithuania to take advantage of the expertise of our National Lab to chart its own path to clean energy and energy independence. This work, like the Net Zero World initiative and a number of other countries, will provide a roadmap to develop thousands of clean energy jobs and strengthen our economy.
“This agreement, signed with Secretary Granholm, is not the beginning of energy cooperation between Lithuania and the United States, but the result of consistent and intensive cooperation over several years. It reflects the joint commitment of both countries to continue working closely together to achieve the goals of the energy policy same, one of the most important is the historic and inevitable transformation of our energy sector. Lithuania has an ambitious goal for the next three decades to become not only a fully energy-independent and self-sufficient country producing energy for its own needs from renewable sources, but also a net exporting country in the region. In the next few decades, the energy sector will become a more complex organism that needs special protection and resilience to external factors. Therefore, we have agreed to work together to strengthen the resilience of the energy sector to cyber threats and change factors i klim,” said Minister Kreivys.
The MoU provides specific areas of cooperation related to strengthening Lithuania’s energy sector in cyber security, as well as Lithuania’s goal of transitioning to a 100% renewable energy sector by 2050.
The Lithuanian Ministry of Energy and other organizations will work with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to develop a plan to modernize the country’s electricity system infrastructure modeled after the Los Angeles 100% Renewable Energy Study (LA100). Lithuania will be the first country in the world to apply this model in order to achieve the transition of the Lithuanian energy sector to 100% renewable energy by 2050. The LT-100 study will help to understand and plan for issues related to feasibility, reliability, public health, and local economic development fair, including job opportunities and local hiring programs in renewable energy.
