Power cable failure at the bottom of the Baltic Sea. “Investigation launched”

On Wednesday, the EstLink2 submarine power cable between Finland and Estonia. The transmission operator Fingrid said in a statement that at 10:26 GMT (11:26 Polish time) there was an unplanned interruption in the operation of the Estlink2 interconnector.

“An investigation into the disruption (of power transmission) has been initiated,” it was reported.

The company's representative, Arto Pahkin, told the Finnish public broadcaster Yle that the cause of the failure was unknown; did not rule out sabotage. However, he recalled that there had been technical failures of the cable before.

The failure of the undersea cable connecting Finland and Estonia occurred, among others, a year ago.

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The Prime Minister of Finland said on social media on Wednesday that the failure did not cause any problems in the country's electricity supply.

EstLink2 is the second bus between Finland and Estonia. The total length of the Finnish-Estonian connection is 170 km, of which 145 km runs under the bottom of the Gulf of Finland; there are several kilometers of traction on the Finnish and Estonian sides.

EstLink2 was put into operation in 2014, and EstLink1 in 2008.

Finland also has electricity connections with Sweden and Norway.