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The undersea Estlink-2 power cable linking Finland and Estonia experienced an outage on Wednesday, prompting an investigation, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo announced.

Authorities stated the disruption will not affect electricity supplies in Finland or Estonia.

Concerns are heightened due to recent incidents involving undersea infrastructure in the Baltic, including severed data cables in November and the 2022 sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.

The cause of the Estlink-2 outage remains unclear.

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[-] ptz@dubvee.org 12 points 1 day ago

Hope they don't "rush in" to any conclusions.

[-] perestroika@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I actually hope they do rush - not with conclusions but with diagnostics - just a little.

If it's another spontaneous breakdown (there have been some) then there's plenty of time. If however someone damaged it, then hours = kilometers.

However, this cable has previously had transformer malfunctions, a short circuit at the site of climbing onto ground (ground shifted over years - I hope it hasn't shifted again), but in light of recent power games on the Baltic sea, it would also be a candidate for plowing with anchors.

Timing is pretty annoying. Baltic countries are leaving the old Soviet power grid synchronization area (physically disconnecting from Russia and Belarus and synchronizing with continental Europe) really very soon (in about a month) and nobody here would appreciate power connections being disrupted at this time.

[-] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Do you know of any good articles exploring this power grid infrastructure disconnection?

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