The National Energy Regulatory Council (NERC) has prepared the Annual Report on Electricity and Natural Gas Markets of the Republic of Lithuania in compliance with the requirements of Directive 2019/944 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 June 2019 concerning common rules for the internal market for electricity and amending Directive 2012/27/EU and of Directive 2009/73/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 July 2009 concerning common rules for the internal market in natural gas and repealing Directive 2003/55/EC and submitted it to the European Commission.
MAIN DEVELOPMENTS IN THE GAS AND ELECTRICITY SECTORS
Electricity market:
- In 2025, the amount of electricity imported to the Lithuania's Power System (LPS) decreased by 26.82%% compared with 2024 and accounted for 47.2%% of the country's total electricity demand in 2025 (demand being 13.2 TWh).
- In 2025, 9.70 TWh of electricity was generated in the country, with imports amounting to 6.23 TWh and exports to 2.64 TWh. The final electricity consumption in the country in 2025 was 11.74 TWh. Total installed capacity at power plants increased in 2025 and reached 8,465 MW (6,509 MW in 2024).
- In 2025, investments actually made amounted to 625.4 million EUR, from which 374.3 million EUR investments in distribution networks (10% more than last year), 169.9 million EUR investments in transmission networks (28% less than last year), and 81.2 million EUR investments in regulated electricity generation (63% more than last year). Compared with 2024, actual investments increased by 41.6 million EUR (7.1%).
- In 2025, 2,475 undertakings in the electricity sector were subject to NERC regulation. This included licensed or permit-regulated activities of independent power supply and aggregation, transmission, distribution, public supply and electricity generation, as well as permits to develop power generation capacity.
- At the end of 2025, the following undertakings held licences issued by NERC: AB “Litgrid" – electricity TSO, AB “Energijos skirstymo operatorius", AB “Achema", UAB “Dainavos Elektra" and AB “Akmenės cementas" – electricity distribution system operators, and UAB “Ignitis" – a public electricity supplier.
- At the end of 2025, 2,709 undertakings (natural and legal persons) held permits issued by NERC to generate electricity (excluding prosumers), 348 undertakings (natural and legal persons) had permits issued by NERC to develop power generation capacity.
- In 2025 NERC issued permits to develop power generation capacity (206), to develop power generation capacity for hybrid power plants (53), permits to develop energy storage facilities (55) and permits to produce (206), as well as permits to carry out the activities of independent power demand aggregator (9) and independent electricity supply (6).
- NERC has granted 35 Citizen Energy Community (CECs) statuses, i.e. 1.5 times more CECs were granted the status in 2025 than in 2024. Also, in 2025 five renewable energy community (REC) statuses were granted.
Natural gas market:
- In 2025, natural gas imports amounted to 33,659 GWh, an increase of 12.26% compared with 2024 (29,980 GWh). In 2025, compared to 2024, sales in the wholesale market of the natural gas increased by 67.15%, from 12,497 GWh to 20,890 GWh, while in the retail market increased by 41.05% (from 5,279 GWh to 7,446 GWh).
- In the natural gas sector, NERC regulated 70 undertakings in 2025. In the natural gas sector transmission, distribution, storage, regasification of liquefied natural gas (LNG), supply, market operator activities and the centrally supplied liquefied petroleum products are licensed or regulated by permits.
- The quantity of natural gas traded by UAB “GET Baltic" on the natural gas market till 8 September 2025 amounted to 7.21 TWh and was 32.34% higher compared with the quantity of natural gas sold during the same period (5.45 TWh)[1] in 2024.
- Revenue of the natural gas sector (transmission, distribution, LNG regasification, supply) in 2025 amounted to 1,537 million EUR, i.e. it was almost 48.3% higher than in 2024 (1,036 million EUR). This was mainly driven by a 49.51% increase pf the quantity of natural gas sold by natural gas supply companies (from 21,635 GWh to 32,347 GWh).
- In 2025, a total of 31 million EUR was invested in the natural gas sector, i.e. 80.9% less than in 2024 (162 million EUR).
- After verifying that the prices for natural gas transmission services submitted by AB “Amber Grid" are reasonable and objective, did not exceed the established revenue cap and are correctly differentiated to avoid cross-subsidisation between groups of system users, NERC approved the Lithuanian gas TSO's tariffs for 2026, according to which the average price of gas transmission services for Lithuanian consumers will be 1.52 EUR/MWh. This is 5% lower than the gas transmission price currently in force for 2025, which is 1.60 EUR/MWh.
The full translated Report will be accessible on the NERC website www.vert.lt and on the CEER website www.ceer.eu in September 2026.
Reports of previous years are presented here (in English).
[1] The market operator UAB “Get Baltic" carried out its licensed activity until 8 September 2025. For comparison purposes, the corresponding period in 2024 was assessed in the calculations. By Resolution No O3E-950 of 27 June 2025 “On the Recognition of European Energy Exchange AG as Authorised to Carry out the Activities of the Natural Gas Exchange Operator in the Republic of Lithuania", European Energy Exchange AG was recognised as eligible to carry out the activities of a natural gas exchange operator in the Republic of Lithuania from 9 September 2025.
