Ministry of Energy

It seems that it’s not only Algirdas Butkevičius’s patience that Valdemar Tomaševski has exhausted.

The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), a Polish party that has been part of Lithuania's ruling coalition, will not get any positions in the government, Social Democratic Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius said on Monday.

On Tuesday, Poland's and Lithuania's natural gas transmission systems operators GAZ-SYSTEM S.A. and AB Amber Grid submitted joint applications to the Innovation & Networks Executive Agency (INEA) for the co-financing of the project Gas Interconnection Poland-Lithuania (GIPL) from Connecting Europe F...

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius reassured that there are no plans to merge the Ministry of Economy and the Ministry of Energy this year.

Parliament Speaker Loreta Graužinienė says that the Labour Party could nominate new energy minister, but this will only be discussed next week at the political council of the Coalition.

In the context of Russia's actions in Ukraine, it is very important for Lithuania and other countries in the region to maintain domestic political stability. Otherwise it would be relatively easy to induce regional unrest by artificially stirring up dissatisfied factions of their societies.

Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius says he has not found a candidate to replace dismissed Minister of Energy Jaroslav Neverovič yet. Nor can he assure that the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party will retain the right to select the energy minister as it was agreed by the ruling coal...

Dismissed Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič might be once again proposed for the position, the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA), the party Neverovič represents, said on Tuesday.

The Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party might leave the ruling coalition following the dismissal of Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič but that would hardly have any impact on the government's work, political scientists say.

President Dalia Grybauskaitė has signed a decree, dismissing Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič from the post.

The Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has reported on Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius' intentions to dismiss Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič, who was delegated to the Cabinet by the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (LLRA) party.

Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius on Tuesday sent an official letter to President Dalia Grybauskaitė in which he proposes that Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič be dismissed from his post.

Speaker of the Seimas of Lithuanian Loreta Graužinienė hopes the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania will remains in the ruling coalition despite the fact that Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevičius wants the party's Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič sacked.

Renata Cytacka, a member of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania, has been re-appointed as deputy energy minister.

On 7-8 August, Minister of Energy Jaroslav Neverovič inspected the work on electrical transformer substations in Alytus (Lithuania) and Elk (Poland), which are part of the LitPol Link power connection. The minister said that even though the schedule is intensive, the substation reconstruction is bei...

Japan's Hitachi says the memorandum signed with Lithuania is a good first step towards building a nuclear power plant, but the project is a regional one, therefore it is of crucial that other partners join in as well.

An interim project company that the Lithuanian Energy Ministry and Japan's Hitachi plan to set up will help make discussions on the Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project better focused, Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič says, adding that these discussions are now "too virtual".

According to Lithuania's Parliament Speaker, chair of the Labour Party Loreta Graužinienė, the Labour Party has over 10 candidates to propose for the office of the deputy minister of energy, while Minister of Agriculture Virginija Baltraitienė has submitted three nominations of possible deputies.

Lithuanian Peasant and Greens Union (LVZS) has criticized the memorandum signed between the Ministry of Energy and the Japanese corporation Hitachi and is demanding to provide an alternative to the planned Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant project.

Lithuanian Energy Minister Jaroslav Neverovič on Thursday invited Latvia to participate in the Visaginas nuclear power plant project, saying that a planned interim project company could be more efficient if partners, Latvia and Estonia, took part in it.