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No geothermal power installations have been reported for Lithuania.

 

 

 

In June of 2004 the State Commission confirmed that the plant capacity for the Klaipeda geothermal demonstration plant on the west coast of the country was 35 MWt, of which 18.0 MWt was from geothermal energy. Four absorption heat pumps (at 4.5 MWt each) extract energy from 39oC geothermal water which is boosted to 175oC by three natural gas hot water boilers (16.2 MWt each). The heat energy is then supplied to the local district heating system. The installed geothermal capacity for the Klaipeda plant is 18.0 MWt (now operating at 13.6 MWt) producing 105.80 TJ/yr.

In addition there are a number of smaller geothermal heat pumps units in single family houses throughout the country adding 34.5 MWt and 305.72 TJ/yr.

The total for the country is 48.1 MWt and 411.52 TJ/yr.
 

Taken from the paper by John W. Lund, Derek H. Freeston, and Tonya L. Boyd: "Direct Utilization of Geothermal Energy 2010 Worldwide Review"; published in Proceedings of the World Geothermal Congress 2010, Bali, Indonesia, 25-29 April 2010