Lithuania Starts Looking into Potential for Offshore Wind Energy

In order to achieve the state’s strategic renewable energy targets and exploit the potential of offshore wind in the Baltic Sea to this end, scientists from Klaip?da University commissioned by the Ministry of Energy conducted a comprehensive analysis of offshore wind development in the Baltic Sea.

Klaip?da University’s Marine Research Institute identified the marine territories, where the development and operation of wind farms would be expedient. The “Study for the Identification of Priority Parts of Lithuania’s Territorial Sea and/or the Lithuanian Exclusive Economic Zone in the Baltic Sea where the Development of Power Plants Using Renewable Energy Sources is Expedient” will become the basis for developing offshore wind energy in... ... More: Official Press Release Government of the Republic of Lithuania

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