In February 2025, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania completed a decade-long, over two billion euro effort to synchronise their electricity grids with Continental Europe, one of the most complex cross-border infrastructure projects the region has seen, delivered largely on schedule and backed by more than a billion euros in EU funding. This session looks past the headline achievement to the delivery story itself, what actually made a project of this scale and complexity work, and what other CEE markets tackling their own large infrastructure builds can take from it.
- What made coordinating three national grid operators and multiple governments on a single timeline actually work?
- How was the EU funding structured, and what does that offer other large cross-border grid projects in the region?
- What role did technical innovation, including new battery systems developed with local universities, play in getting this over the line?
- What can developers and grid operators elsewhere in CEE take from how this project stayed on schedule?
