An outage on the Estlink 2 electricity interconnector occurred at 10:26 GMT on December 25, operator Fingrid said in a statement on Nordpool’s regulatory website, reducing its available capacity to 358 megawatts (MW) from installed capacity of 1,016 MW. Finland immediately opened an investigation. “Even at Christmas, the authorities are ready to investigate the matter,” Petteri Orpo said on the social network X. The interruption did not affect Finland’s electricity supply, he added .
At the time of the outage, electricity was flowing from Finland to Estonia at a rate of 658 MW, Fingrid said.
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Finland boarded a ship suspected of causing the breakdown on Thursday, December 26. The ship is also suspected of having damaged or caused the disruption of four internet lines.
Series of possible sabotages
Authorities in the region are on high alert for possible acts of sabotage after a series of failures that have affected cables and gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea in recent years. In November, two telecommunications cables linking Sweden to Lithuania and Finland to Germany were cut within 48 hours of each other.
On December 27, Estonia announced that it had launched a naval operation to protect the Estlink 1 submarine electrical cable in the Baltic Sea. “If there is a threat to critical underwater infrastructure in our region, there will also be a response,” writes Margus Tsahkna, Estonian Foreign Minister, on the social network X.
With Reuters
Source: www.usinenouvelle.com
