2022-04-23
Energy pragmatism is possible, all it despises is rhetoric
Lithuania’s Independence, a so-called Floating Storage Regasification Unit, offers a case study for those looking to pivot away from Russian gas.
Tag: innovation
2022-04-09
Is the Green Dream postponed by Ukraine’s wake-up call?
As coal has the biggest potential to lower gas demand, Poland wants to use it to produce electricity after 2049 to bolster its energy security.
2022-03-05
Stimuli: productivity boost, or energy costs burning us out
Following a record GDP growth (8.5%) in 2021, the Estonian economy will slow in 2022, still maintaining a strong pace (+4%).
2022-02-05
Damage to competitiveness isn’t transitory, hope and rhetoric are
Riga is facing multiple challenges: energy prices, increasingly unemployed, a domestic market fall, global supply chain disruptions.
2022-01-29
e-Estonia: innovation can free us from the wage-price spiral
The example of Estonia suggests that the focus on an efficient allocation of resources works more effectively than a stimulus of demand.
2021-11-06
Lithuania: the road to the energy revolution is still long
Vilnius has achieved considerable results in energy supply from renewables, recycling and composting. However, emissions have increased by 50% since 2005.
2021-10-30
Estonia: now it’s time to reconvert the workforce
Many unemployed have a background in sectors affected by the pandemic: the skills of job seekers often do not correspond to the new needs.
2021-09-18
ELWIND: Made in Baltic wind to turn off energy costs
The offshore wind farm is a joint Estonia-Latvia project with a total capacity of 700-1000 MW, and will provide over 3 TWh of renewable energy per year.
2021-09-11
The New Lithuanian Generation ignites a high-added-value future
New Generation Lithuania lays the foundations for high added value, digitalization, green course, better education, health and social services.
2021-09-04
How fiscal proactivity fired Lithuania back to pre-Covid world
Lithuania’s fiscal response to the crisis has been timely and adequate: GDP contracted by only 0.8%, while real growth has reached 4.8% this year.