FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Finnish Prime Minister Petri Orpo said Wednesday that a power outage on a cable connecting Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea has triggered an investigation.
Orpo wrote on He said the outage would not affect Finland’s electricity supply.
Public broadcaster ERR said on its website that Estonian network operator Elering said there was enough spare capacity to meet Estonia’s electricity needs.
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Authorities have been nervous about undersea infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. Two data cables, one running between Finland and Germany and the other between Lithuania and Sweden, were cut in November.
Germany’s defense minister said officials had to assume the incident was “sabotage” but gave no evidence or said who might be responsible. of speech.
The Nord Stream gas pipeline, which once carried natural gas from Russia to Germany, was damaged by an underwater explosion in September 2022.
According to the ERR report, the Estlink-2 cable has been out of service for most of this year to repair short circuit damage that may have been caused by the complex positioning of the cable.
