Lithuania’s Public Security Service (PSS) will be charged next year with protecting LitPol Link facilities in Alytus, the NordBalt infrastructure in Klaipeda, the Litgrid data centre in Vilnius, and a Lithuanian power plant in Elektrenai.
Lithuania’s Cabinet of Ministers approved the relevant legislative amendments on Wednesday.
The amendments allow for the deployment of military resources to defend the facilities, as well as the LNG terminal of KN Energies, its oil product terminals in Klaipeda and Subacius, and Orlen Lietuva’s crude refinery terminal at Mazeikai and its oil terminal in Butinge, in all cases the protection being aimed at the prevention of potential terrorist attacks.
Lithuania’s Energy Ministry has said that the overall aim is to boost security in the runup to the synchronisation of Baltic electricity grids with those of Western Europe next February.
The PSS will begin guarding the Litgrid data centre and the Lithuanian power plant in January. The Alytus switchyard, transformer substation and back-to-back converter of the LitPol Link interconnection with Poland, as well as a converter station in Klaipeda and a transformer substation of the NordBalt link to Sweden, will come under the agency’s protection in April.
Previously, a private security company has been protecting facilities near Alytus which are critical in the synchronisation process.
Source: BNS
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