"Everybody knows that Kaliningrad is under construction with a capacity, which is not for the Kaliningrad market," Peter Faross, director for Nuclear Energy at the Energy Directorate General of the European Commission (EC), told BNS during an energy conference in Brussels.
"So they will have to find markets outside the Russian area. We are collaborating with regard to gas imports, oil imports, why shall we not collaborate on electricity imports? But for this you need an infrastructure and you find a buyer for this electricity and this is totally dependent on the rules of the market, whether there will be buyers yes or not," said the EC official.
Speaking at the conference, which was also attended by deputy director general of Russia's nuclear energy company Rosatom, Faross said it was not easy to implement the European Union's aspiration to separate the Baltic states, which are often referred to as energy islands, from the Russian power system.
"I can tell you it is not that easy to desynchronize one system and to synchronize it with another system," Faross said.
Russia intends to make its nuclear plant in Kaliningrad operational by 2017. Lithuania has criticized Russia for failure to meet security standards in the project. Some analysts say the power plant would be a competitor of Lithuania's projected nuclear plant in Visaginas.
