“We believe that successful long-term experience of the group’s companies in the energy and other industrial domains – engineering, maintenance and port logistics – together with the planned investment will contribute to faster green energy development in Lithuania. This field is important both to Achema Group and the entire country. We have been developing it for 24 years now, and we have plans for even longer-term going forward. We are already negotiating with potential partners and investors, and assembling a team which will implement the planned project by applying the best practices and experience,” says Nerius Jasinavičius, board member of Achema Group.
Back in 2012-2015, Renerga were one of the first ones in Lithuania to perform an opportunity study for wind power plant installation in the territorial waters of the Republic of Lithuania in the Baltic Sea, and an environmental impact assessment (PAV) based on the legislation at the time. However, due to changes to the Lithuanian renewable resources’ energy law in 2017, based on which the PAV and public health impact assessment could only be performed by a state authorised institution, the company had to halt their plans.
In June 2020, when the Government approved the necessary ruling for offshore wind power development, Achema Group renewed the project. The group’s plans include investment in a wind power plant park in the Baltic Sea, there are also plans to construct a wind power plant component factory in Klaipėda. There are discussions about the possibility to perform engineering-technological maintenance of land and sea-based wind power plants in the future, and establishing the new company is one of the steps towards implementing this.
“Renewable energy is a steady development direction for Achema Group. It is directed at implementing new production and operations projects in Lithuania and development in Central and Western Europe. Our long-term goal is to produce enough electrical power from renewable sources not only to satisfy the needs of all the companies managed by the group but also to offer it to other consumers,” Jasinavičius said.
Last year, the group’s renewable energy companies generated 162.4 thousand megawatt-hours (MWh) of green electrical power in Lithuania, and 144.5 thousand MWh abroad.
Achema Group manages more than 50 companies in Lithuania and abroad, including Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Finland, Sweden, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg and Croatia.
