Ignitis Group Starts Audit and Plans to Strengthen Lithuania’s Power Grid
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- Ignitis Group will audit how ESO, the electricity distribution company, handled the aftermath of Lithuania’s largest storm since 1970.
- The group urged ESO to restore service faster and work with partners during future emergencies.
- ESO’s investment program will rise to €3.5 billion over 10 years, while about 2,500 customers remain without power.
Ignitis Group is launching an internal audit after an August storm caused widespread failures in Lithuania’s electricity network. The company will assess how ESO handled the response and is urging the distributor to restore supplies faster.
The storm was described as the country’s largest since 1970. Although 99 percent of ESO customers have electricity again, about 2,500 remain without power, most of them in the Utena region. More than 100 repair crews are working there.
Ignitis Group also wants ESO to cooperate more closely with partners during future emergencies. It has decided to update its grid-strengthening plan, with more cables to be placed underground and greater capacity for dealing with outages.
The group is increasing ESO’s investment program to €3.5 billion over the next 10 years.
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Originally published by Delfi in Lithuanian. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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