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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/energy

Lithuania and Poland agree on consortium to build “PowerBridge”

Brussels, 13/02/2008 (Agence Europe) - After months of shilly-shallying by Vilnius and Warsaw (see EUROPE 9556), on Tuesday 12 February, the transmission system operators (TSOs) of Lithuania Lietuvos Energija and Poland PSE Operator signed an agreement on the joint company to build the “PowerBridge” linking Lithuania and Poland and connecting the Baltic electrical system with the continental European power grid through Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, the two signatory...

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