List of 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
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

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