The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

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[–] 62 points 2 years ago (11 children)

damn I didn't even realize that this was a thing.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Pretty big legacy system to overhaul.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It sounds like a nice sentiment but I hope it doesn't lead to Texas-like problems for them.

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    Power grids are very interlinked, it helps with grid stability. It would be weird if they weren't.

    This is a fun map: app.electricitymaps.com

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I know these things in the back of my head, but I never think about them. like during the opening shots of the second Gulf War, when they use those cruise missiles that didn't have warheads, they just had a bunch of carbon filament wires to dump on their power substations; like that makes total sense but I had no clue that we did shit like that

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