section_path: Chronology/Proposals to speed up the process
section_name: Proposals to speed up the process
paragraph_text: Proposals to speed up the process
  
  The need for synchronization became more urgent after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Šimonytė announced that Lithuania was seeking to speed up the process of transition and leave the IPS/UPS transmission system before 2025 with the expected finalized plan made public by the end of 2023.
  
  On 22 April 2023, a stress test was scheduled in the Baltic states to test the infrastructure and operate for a day outside the IPS/UPS grid. Latvia and Estonia withdrew from testing, while Lithuania successfully conducted the test and concluded that the country was ready to join the synchronous grid of Continental Europe in 2024. Estonia and Latvia proposed the synchronization with the European grid be delayed to 2025 due to infrastructure not being ready. President of Lithuania Gitanas Nausėda continued to pressure both Estonia and Latvia to synchronize with continental Europe in 2024, without waiting until 2025. Eventually, the countries agreed to synchronize no later than February 2025.