An unplanned outage on the Estlink 2 interconnector connecting Finland and Estonia has prompted an investigation by Finnish authorities. While the incident did not disrupt Finland's electricity supply, it reduced the interconnector's capacity to 358 MW from 1,016 MW.
Finland ’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said on Wednesday authorities in his country were investigating an undersea power cable outage on a line connecting Finland and Estonia . An unplanned break in service on the Estlink 2 interconnector occurred at 1026 GMT, operator Fingrid said in a statement on the Nordpool regulatory web site, reducing its available capacity to 358 megawatts (MW) from an installed capacity of 1,016 MW.
“Even at Christmas the authorities are on standby to investigate the matter,” Orpo said in a post on X. The interruption did not affect Finland’s electricity supply, he added. Authorities in the region have been on high alert for potential acts of sabotage following a string of outages of power cables, gas pipelines and telecom links in the Baltic Sea in recent years, although subsea cables are also subject to technical malfunctions and outages caused by accidents. “An investigation into the incident has been initiated,” Fingrid control room manager Arto Pahki said in a statement. At the time of the outage the electricity had been flowing in the direction from Finland to Estonia at a rate of 658 MW, Fingrid said
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