Infrastructure

Installed capacity — Lithuania

What Lithuania could produce with everything running at once: installed capacity by source, as reported for 2026, next to how much has actually run.

Installed capacity
8,840MW
reported for 2026
Renewables
66.2%
5,848 of 8,840 MW
Largest source
Solar
3,018 MW · 34.1% of total
Against 2025
+2,535MW
40.2% against the previous year

The generation fleet, 2026

Installed capacity by source, as the operator reports it.

Installed capacity 8,840MW reported for 2026 Cleaner energy for tomorrow
Renewables 66.2% 5,848 MW
Largest source Solar 34.1%
Against 2025 +2,535 MW
Source Capacity (MW) Of total
Solar 3,018+1,231 34.1%
Onshore wind 2,507+824 28.4%
Natural gas 1,597+94 18.1%
Pumped-storage hydro 900 10.2%
Other sources 449+412 5.1%
Biomass 193−3 2.2%
Run-of-river hydro 130+1 1.5%
Waste 46−24 0.5%
Oil 0 0.0%

How much ran at once

The highest output delivered at a single moment over the past twelve months, by source group, next to the installed capacity.

Of 8,840 MW installed, the most that ever ran at one moment was 3,272 MW — 37% of the fleet, on 03/07/2026, 13:00:00.

The peak is read from our own generation archive, not estimated: it is a lower bound on what the fleet can do. A small ratio means the group's sources never all ran together — reservoir hydro starts at peak demand, thermal plants sit idle when they are not called. A ratio above one hundred means the declared capacity has fallen behind: the figure is declared at the start of the year while new units come online during it. Groups are compared here rather than individual source types: the same source can report capacity under lignite and generation under coal, and at group level the two meet.

How it changed, year by year

Total installed capacity, from 2016 to 2026.

  1. 2026 8,840MW +2,535
  2. 2025 6,305MW +2,842
  3. 2016 3,463MW

The figures come from the ENTSO-E Transparency Platform: installed generation capacity by production type. The year is the one the operator reports for, not the year the figure was published.

Two things are not here: the number of installations per source, and batteries as a source of their own. The aggregated report does not carry them, and batteries fall under “other”. They appear the day the source publishes them separately.