VŠT purchased Klaipėda heat companies from “E Energija”. Business

VŠT announced on Friday that it has completed 100 percent of the companies “Pramones energija” and “Miestos energija”, as well as 4.34 percent. the process of acquiring shares of “Klaipėdos Energija”. Artūras Kovza will lead VŠT activities in Klaipėda from the end of March.

“This is an important strategic step, after which we expand VŠT’s opportunities to operate in the unregulated market and get closer to the goal of becoming a universal producer and supplier of green energy,” Gerimantas Bakanas, VŠT’s general director, said in a statement.

It is announced that VŠT will annually sell 99 gigawatt hours (GWh) more heat and 5.5 GWh more electricity produced from renewable sources, as well as about 9.6 GWh of waste heat from industrial enterprises. At that time, the company’s heat production capacity from renewable sources will increase by 24.8 megawatts (MW), electricity by 1.5 MW.

After the transaction, VŠT will also receive 6.2 kilometers of the district heating network in the Klaipėda Free Economic Zone (LEZ).

“Miestos energija” manages the local heat supply network in the Klaipėda SEZ, while “Pramones energija” produces heat and electricity in the cogeneration biofuel boiler house and supplies it to the Klaipėda networks. 100 percent energy is produced from renewable sources and waste heat.

“Pramones energija” and “Miesto energija” remained unsold after the Competition Council last year did not allow “Gren Lietuva” of the Northern European energy group “Gren” to acquire all seven companies controlled by the company “Šiluma miestams” controlled by “E Energija”. “Gren Lietuva” acquired control of “Šiluma miestas” and indirectly took over only five companies.

VŠT serves more than 220 thousand people. households and business customers of the capital.