History
In 2000, European Commission and the EBRD made a decision to finance a feasibility study on the Poland–Lithuania transmission interconnection. The study was completed in September 2002.
On 29 September 2006 Poland's President Lech Kaczyński and Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus signed a joint declaration on the project of power grids connection during their meeting in Warsaw. The memorandum of understanding to establish a joint interconnection operator was signed between Lietuvos Energija AB and Polish PSE-Operator in Vilnius on 8 December 2006. Agreement to establish a joint project company was signed on 12 February 2008 in Warsaw. The joint project company, LitPol Link, was established on 19 May 2008.
On 12 September 2011, PSE Operator signed a contract with the Polish construction company PBE ELBUD Group for building a 400-kV overhead line between Ełk and Łomża.
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