Mantas Burokas becomes CEO of Vilnius CHP

Mantas Burokas has been appointed as the new CEO of Vilnius Combined Head and Power Plant (Vilnius CHP). After being successful in the selection procedure, he will take up the position on 24 February.

A lawyer by training Mantas Burokas for the last eighteen months has been working as the Director of Strategy and Management Department at LTG Infra. He has extensive experience in the energy sector, having headed Vilniaus Šilumos Tinklai from 2015 to 2019, and senior positions at Visaginas Nuclear Power Plant and Klaipėdos Nafta before that.

“I am delighted that Mantas has agreed to take on a new challenge in his career. He joins the team of Vilnius CHP plant while construction works are still underway and on the eve of the commissioning of the plant unit that uses municipal waste to generate energy. This is definitely a double challenge, but I am confident that Mantas’s experience will allow to successfully complete the construction of Vilnius CHP plant and to smoothly start commercial operations that will create value to all residents for many years to come”, said Dominykas Tučkus, Chair of the Management Board of Vilnius CHP.

The selection of Vilnius CHP’s CEO was announced at the end of November 2020, and 49 candidates expressed their willingness to head the plant that currently has nearly 90 employees. The final stage of the selection process included two candidates, where Mr Burokas was concluded to be the best.

“After a short break, I am returning to the energy sector I have spent more than a decade in, and also to Ignitis Group, where I worked at the beginning of my professional career. The project of Vilnius CHP is already well underway, and I know that projects of such complexity have multiple challenges, but we will work with focus together with the project team to ensure that the plant provides maximum benefits to all residents as soon as possible”, says the new Vilnius CHP CEO, Mantas Burokas.

Vilnius CHP will be among the most modern of its type in Europe. Once fully implemented, the Vilnius CHP project is expected to have a total power generation capacity of just over 90 MW, and a thermal capacity of approximately 230 MW. Vilnius CHP will generate energy from non-hazardous municipal waste and biofuels. Vilnius CHP will be able to use approximately 160 000 tonnes of waste per year. The project is financed by the European Union Cohesion Fund.