As Lithuania hands over the equipment of the defunct third Vilnius thermal power plant (TE-3) to Ukraine, the manager of Ignitis Gamybo, which manages the power plant, says that the building and territory freed up after dismantling the equipment could be used for various - both commercial and public - activities.
According to Asta Sungailienė, the company is currently looking for ways to adapt the power plant located in the western part of Vilnius, near the Gariūnai market place, near Neris and the Vilnius-Kaunas highway, to other activities.
"Certain studies were carried out about possible solutions for the development of this territory in general. We are working in that direction, we are looking for various coping solutions, which may be different", A. Sungailienė told BNS.
"We do not have specific solutions for today. (...) There can be activities of both economic and public nature", she said.
During his visit to TE-3 on Friday, Minister of Energy Dainius Kreivys said that "Ignitis Gamyba" will decide on the further use of the power plant.
"Probably they will dismantle part of it, maybe they will adapt the buildings to something else. This is probably the object of their commercial activity," D. Kreivys told reporters on Friday.
TE-3 in Vilnius, Jočionys, started producing electricity in 1984, and a year later - also heat. 603 megawatts of heat and 360 megawatts of electricity were installed in it.
The power plant was closed, and the equipment was conserved in 2015 due to excessively high and uncompetitive costs of its use, unprofitable electricity production.
Not a single factory or other industrial and other-purpose buildings that previously operated in Vilnius were adapted for public use.
For example, in the complex of the Lukiškii prison, which was closed in 2019, there are bars, excursions and various other activities events.
Located in New Vilnius, in a former 19th-century scythe factory, "Dūmų fabrikas" also organizes events, there is a beer restaurant, and in the water storage facility in Liepkalnis installed more than a century ago Museum of Energy and Technology started organizing tours and concerts last year.
Some former factories are simply demolished and replaced by shopping malls, housing or offices.
In October 2022, a shopping center with shops and restaurants, offices and 254 apartments was opened in the former Battersea power station in London. The power plant for 9 billion pounds (10,68 billion euros) was renewed by Malaysian investors who bought it in 2012.
Author Lukas Juozapaitis
Editor Roma Pakėnienė
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