One note, the power plant in Elektrenai is thermal power plant, not nuclear. There was only one nuclear power plant in Lithuania and its in Ignalina, but that one is no longer functioning. But it could be a nice tour, its also quite interesting city.
The power plant in Elektrenai is not, and to my knowledge never has been, nuclear. I camped on the outskirts of this city last summer on my motorcycle tour in eastern europe and looked in to this. I can say that the city looked at least a bit better in summer time 😃
Yea, it is not nuclear power plant. Ignalina nuclear power plant of Lithuania is near the city of Visaginas in Norteastern corner of the country. It's another grey newly build Soviet city built for workers of power plant. Famous HBO series Chernobyl was filmed there and because of that now it's kind of touristic place
As a lithuanian if you ever wonder why we're thought of as cold and depressed just remember this town... Visaginas is another good example although much farther from Vilnius or any other big cities. I live abroad but still fall into that stereotype exactly, lol
Omg, this completely flew over my head when he said it! I'm a Lithuanian who doesn't know the difference between Elektrėnai and Visaginas, I guess.. :D Tho, the plant in Elektrėnai is conventional thermal plant, not hydro. The hydro ones are in Kaunas and Kruonis.
Welcome back in Europe! Each city has its own beauty!❤ I don't think many of the city's residents would move from there! Thank you for filming and sharing, have a good weekend!❤
Oh no, Elektrenai is far from a grim town. Maybe twenty yers ago it was such. :) Wet winter and fog definitelly creates such atmosphere. There was enormous Thermo Plant in Elektrenai. Specifically to support Visaginas Nuclear power plant with electricity and all Lithuania in case of immediate shutdown. Today it is a convenient town to live with good communication with both biggest cities.
Ive always wanted to go to Nosy be island just cos of the name so i couldn't believe it when i found a RU-vid channel from there and the guy is a scouser! Lol you couldn't make it up
Elektrėnai power plant is not a nuclear power plant it is a Thermal power plant, and your video is a bit old bycase Elektrėnai now is one of the nicest and cheapest place to live in Lithuania.
I rose in this town and finished school there in 1993. Regarding power plant - that's thermal power plant with initial capacity 1.8GW. Initially run on oil, later in 90-ies converted to natural gas. In the beginning 21 century a new combined cycle gas turbine was built 450MW i suggest it's used for secondary frequency control ("hot reserve"). At the moment 6 old units are completely decommissioned, unit 7 and 8 works on cold reserve and start up on predicted demand. Use to work in the power plant after uni around 2000 it was full of soviet narrow minded bellends luckily most of them already mooved to the better world.
@@CarltheScouser perhaps now the tables are turned and lithufvckinganian life quality is getting way better rather than british... perhaps salarywise britain still better for the certain jobs including mine
@@CarltheScouseri would really recommend to come during the summer. Lithuania unfortunately quite grim and depressive circa 2/3 of the year, perhaps in the late spring, summer and early autumn it's beautyful.
