On Wednesday, a power cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea experienced an outage, leading to an investigation, as stated by Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo. The interruption in power transmission through the Estlink-2 cable was reported, with authorities actively looking into the matter. Fortunately, Orpo assured that this incident would not impact electricity supplies in Finland.
Estonian network operator Elering confirmed that there was sufficient spare capacity to meet power demands on the Estonian side, according to reports from public broadcaster ERR. This outage comes amidst concerns regarding undersea infrastructure in the Baltic region, following the severing of two data cables in November - one between Finland and Germany, and the other between Lithuania and Sweden.
