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The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

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[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 62 points 2 months ago (2 children)

damn I didn't even realize that this was a thing.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 40 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Pretty big legacy system to overhaul.

Yeah, makes sense in the context of the USSR

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It sounds like a nice sentiment but I hope it doesn't lead to Texas-like problems for them.

[–] Badeendje@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They are now connected to the European grid. Via the sulweki gap to Poland and by sea cables to Finland. Texas is just very.. very.. very.. special.

[–] WanderingVentra@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago

Good to hear! And ya, Texas is... Something...

[–] Aqarius@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren't.

This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 months ago

It would be weird if they weren't.

See also: Texas

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I know these things in the back of my head, but I never think about them. like during the opening shots of the second Gulf War, when they use those cruise missiles that didn't have warheads, they just had a bunch of carbon filament wires to dump on their power substations; like that makes total sense but I had no clue that we did shit like that

[–] Amanduh@lemm.ee 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Was the carbon filament to short circuit things?

[–] pelletbucket@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago
[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Power grids are very interlinked

Interlinked