
In a week in history Estonia will have an important event on February>8 we will disconnect from the Russian electricity system. About what this means, how it looks in reality, Delfi Ärileht writes.The Baltic States have not bought electricity from Russia for several years and do not sell it to Russia, but continued to operate in the system, in which the frequency is regulated by the eastern neighbor. We are always dependent on Russia to provide stability of our electric system. When in late December the
anchor of a vessel damaged the EstLink2 submarine electric cable, and we could not receive electricity from Finland, at first electricity was sourced from Russian power plants. According to Elering’s data, if before the damage of the underwater cable from Estonia to Russia there was still electricity, then after the incident from the Leningrad region to Estonia as up to 414 megawatts of electricity. This is one and a half times more than the power plant Auvere can produce when operating at full capacity.