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Revision as of 13:02, 26 December 2024
 | This article documents a current maritime incident. Information may change rapidly as the event progresses, and initial news reports may be unreliable. The latest updates to this article may not reflect the most current information. (December 2024) |
| Date | 25 December |
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| Location | Baltic Sea |
| Cause | Under investigation |
On 25 December 2024 at 12.26, the Estlink 2 had an unplanned failure, reducing the Estonia–Finland cross-border capacity from 1,016 MW to 358 MW.[1] Fingrid expects the failure to last until August 2025.[1] At the time of the outage, electricity was flowing from Finland to Estonia at a rate of 658 MW. Concerns about potential sabotage rose due to recent outages in the Baltic Sea region, although subsea cables are also prone to technical malfunctions and accidents. Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo confirmed that authorities were investigating the incident.[2]
At early evening, the Finnish Border Guard escorted tanker Eagle S, a part of Russia's shadow fleet according to Lloyd's List, to Porkkalanniemi. By early morning on 26 December, both vessels were still near Porkkala.[3] On 26 December, the police confirmed that the tanker is suspected of the failure, and that the incident is being investigated as an act of gross vandalism.
References
- ^ a b "Unavailability of electricity facilities : Transmission". Nord Pool — UMM Platform. Fingrid Oyj. 2024-12-26. Retrieved 2024-12-26.
- ^ "Finland investigates outage of undersea power link to Estonia, Finnish PM says". Reuters. December 25, 2024.
- ^ ERR, ERR | (2024-12-26). "Yle: Russian shadow fleet tanker in the area when Estlink 2 goes offline". ERR. Retrieved 2024-12-26.