Tropp

TALLINN — Eesti Energia issued an unexpected broadside at Russian energy producers on the company blog Tuesday.

Andres Tropp, the director of nuclear energy department at Eesti Energia criticized Russia’s promise to sell affordable nuclear energy to the Baltics while at the same time Russia is cutting off Belarus until it pays a €160 million debt.

Tropp doubts that Russia will [private_supervisor]keep prices down once getting a hold on the market, and wrote that considering that Lithuania already pays more than any other country in Europe for natural gas imported from Russia, then it is hard to believe that the Baltic states will get anything cheap from Russia in the future.

“Creating a ‘necessary atmosphere’ and creating a ‘pragmatical relationship’ they are ready to decoy the Baltic states with the myth of cheap energy, what many people would like to believe in,” Tropp wrote on the Eesti Energia blog.

Tropp asserted that Russia’s energy politics is very different from the the European Union’s, giving a competitive advantage to Russian energy enterprises.

“If the competitive advantages derived from the mentioned reason will not be equalized, then the Baltic electricity market will remain open for the manipulations of their Eastern neighbor,” Tropp wrote. [/private_supervisor] [private_subscription 1 month]keep prices down once getting a hold on the market, and wrote that considering that Lithuania already pays more than any other country in Europe for natural gas imported from Russia, then it is hard to believe that the Baltic states will get anything cheap from Russia in the future.

“Creating a ‘necessary atmosphere’ and creating a ‘pragmatical relationship’ they are ready to decoy the Baltic states with the myth of cheap energy, what many people would like to believe in,” Tropp wrote on the Eesti Energia blog.

Tropp asserted that Russia’s energy politics is very different from the the European Union’s, giving a competitive advantage to Russian energy enterprises.

“If the competitive advantages derived from the mentioned reason will not be equalized, then the Baltic electricity market will remain open for the manipulations of their Eastern neighbor,” Tropp wrote. [/private_subscription 1 month] [private_subscription 4 months]keep prices down once getting a hold on the market, and wrote that considering that Lithuania already pays more than any other country in Europe for natural gas imported from Russia, then it is hard to believe that the Baltic states will get anything cheap from Russia in the future.

“Creating a ‘necessary atmosphere’ and creating a ‘pragmatical relationship’ they are ready to decoy the Baltic states with the myth of cheap energy, what many people would like to believe in,” Tropp wrote on the Eesti Energia blog.

Tropp asserted that Russia’s energy politics is very different from the the European Union’s, giving a competitive advantage to Russian energy enterprises.

“If the competitive advantages derived from the mentioned reason will not be equalized, then the Baltic electricity market will remain open for the manipulations of their Eastern neighbor,” Tropp wrote. [/private_subscription 4 months] [private_subscription 1 year]keep prices down once getting a hold on the market, and wrote that considering that Lithuania already pays more than any other country in Europe for natural gas imported from Russia, then it is hard to believe that the Baltic states will get anything cheap from Russia in the future.

“Creating a ‘necessary atmosphere’ and creating a ‘pragmatical relationship’ they are ready to decoy the Baltic states with the myth of cheap energy, what many people would like to believe in,” Tropp wrote on the Eesti Energia blog.

Tropp asserted that Russia’s energy politics is very different from the the European Union’s, giving a competitive advantage to Russian energy enterprises.

“If the competitive advantages derived from the mentioned reason will not be equalized, then the Baltic electricity market will remain open for the manipulations of their Eastern neighbor,” Tropp wrote. [/private_subscription 1 year]

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