Finnish police are currently investigating a potential involvement of a foreign ship in the damage of an undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia. This investigation comes in the wake of a sudden outage that occurred on Wednesday, affecting the 658 megawatt Estlink 2 power interconnector. As a result of the outage, only the 358 MW Estlink 1 is currently operational between the two countries, according to operator Fingrid.
The Baltic Sea nations have been on high alert for possible acts of sabotage following a series of outages affecting power cables, telecom links, and gas pipelines since 2022. While technical malfunctions and accidents are also common causes of such disruptions, authorities are actively looking into potential sabotage as well.
