08:00

Registration Desk Opened

Please come to our registration desk to register and collect your badge.

09:00

Conference Opening

LitRES 2027 will be opened by the event moderator.

09:15

Summit Opening Keynote

Keynote particulars will be announced closer to the dates of the event.

09:30

SESSION I: Beyond the Build-Out: What Does Lithuania’s Electricity System Need Next?

Discussion Topics

• Operating a high-renewable electricity system
• Grid congestion and connection bottlenecks
• Curtailment: who bears the cost?
• Flexibility as the new infrastructure
• System stability after synchronisation
• The future role of transmission and distribution operators
• Regional integration with the CEE, Baltic and Nordic markets

10:10

Networking Break

10:50

SESSION II: The New Economics of Renewable Energy: Bankability Beyond Subsidies.

Discussion Topics

• Financing renewable projects in a higher-risk environment
• Corporate PPAs versus merchant strategies
• Revenue stacking and portfolio optimisation
• Co-located storage and hybrid renewable projects
• Managing price volatility and cannibalisation risk
• What makes renewable projects bankable today?
• What investors and lenders now expect from developers
• The changing economics of renewable development
• Who ultimately pays for the transition to renewable electricity?

11:30

Networking Break

12:00

SESSION III: Flexibility Becomes the Market: Batteries, Digitalisation and New Revenue Streams.

Discussion Topics

• What revenue streams will finance the next generation of BESS?
• Energy arbitrage versus ancillary services and capacity revenues
• Standalone versus co-located battery storage
• Grid-forming batteries and system stability
• Congestion management and emerging flexibility markets
• Can storage become an alternative to traditional grid reinforcement?
• AI, forecasting and automated energy trading
• Energy management systems and real-time optimisation
• What happens as competition compresses battery revenues?
• Where will the next storage investment opportunities emerge?

12:40

Networking Lunch Break

13:30

SESSION IV: Who Will Buy Lithuania’s Green Electricity? Creating Demand for the Next GW.

Discussion Topics

• Industrial electrification
• Manufacturing competitiveness
• Data centres
• Green hydrogen
• Energy-intensive industries
• Green chemicals
• New export opportunities
• Renewable electricity as an industrial policy tool
• Can Lithuania become the Baltic clean-energy hub?

14:10

Networking Break

14:40

CEO FIRESIDE CHAT: The Electricity Company of 2035: Who Wins in the Next Energy System?

Discussion Topics

• Where will energy companies make money in 2035?
• Is renewable generation alone still a viable long-term business model?
• Will tomorrow’s winners own generation, storage, grids, customers — or software?
• How will AI and digitalisation change electricity companies?
• Will utilities and developers increasingly compete for the same customers?
• Is consolidation inevitable across the European energy sector?
• Which technologies will fundamentally reshape the electricity industry?
• If you had €1 billion to invest in the energy system today, where would you put it?

15:20

Short Break

15:30

INVESTOR ROUNDTABLE: Where Will the Next €10 Billion Come From?

How can Lithuania convert abundant renewable electricity into industrial growth, exports and jobs?

• Institutional investors and infrastructure funds
• Commercial banks and project finance
• Pension and long-term institutional capital
• EU and public-sector financing
• Financing grids, storage and new electricity infrastructure
• Risk allocation between developers, investors and the state
• Debt availability and financing costs
• Return expectations in the new energy market
• Which technologies are investors most willing to finance?
• What could prevent the next €10 billion from being deployed?

16:00

Short Break

16:10

INDUSTRY ROUNDTABLE: Electrifying Transport: Is the Grid Ready for the Next Wave of EV Infrastructure?

• How much new electricity demand will transport electrification create?
• Is the distribution grid ready for large-scale EV charging?
• Building the next generation of public and ultra-fast charging infrastructure
• Grid connections: are charging hubs becoming major infrastructure projects?
• Heavy-duty transport and the challenge of megawatt-scale charging
• Electrification of commercial fleets, logistics and public transport
• Smart charging, dynamic tariffs and demand-side flexibility
• Battery storage and renewable generation at charging hubs
• Vehicle-to-Grid: can EVs become a meaningful flexibility resource?
• Who will finance the next generation of charging infrastructure?
• What business models will make charging infrastructure bankable?
• Can Lithuania become a regional leader in e-mobility infrastructure?

16:40

Short Break

16:50

CLOSING STRATEGIC DEBATE: What Should Lithuania’s Electricity Market Look Like by 2035?

A forward-looking debate involving regulators, TSOs, investors and developers on the market design needed to support the next decade of investment.

• What electricity market design does Lithuania need by 2035?
• How should flexibility and system services be valued?
• What signals should markets provide for storage and grid investment?
• How should congestion and curtailment be managed?
• What should be the respective roles of markets, regulation and government?
• How can Lithuania attract long-term infrastructure capital?
• How closely should Baltic electricity markets integrate with Nordic and CEE markets?
• What are the three decisions Lithuania needs to make today to succeed by 2035?

17:10

Summit Adjourns