Finland said it was investigating a fault in a power cable under the Baltic Sea connecting it to Estonia.
The unplanned outage occurred on the Estlink 2 interconnector at 10:26 GMT (11:26 CET) on Wednesday, according to operator Fingrid.
“Even at Christmas the authorities are ready to investigate the case,” Finland’s Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said in a post on Twitter. He said the outage would not affect electricity supplies to the Finnish population.
Authorities in the region are on high alert for possible acts of sabotage following a series of outages of power cables, gas pipelines and telecommunications links in the Baltic Sea in recent years, although underwater cables have also been subject to technical malfunctions and accidents. Are subject to loss occurring. ,
According to Fingrid control room manager Arto Pahäki, at the time of the outage electricity was flowing from Finland in the direction of Estonia at a rate of 658 MW.
ftm/dj (Reuters, DW source)