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Estonia doesn't really import any electricity from Russia, it's primarily export. Also these connections in general are for cost and fault tolerance. Estonia ha
by Strom 3y ago
Estonia doesn't really import any electricity from Russia, it's primarily export. Also these connections in general are for cost and fault tolerance. Estonia has enough domestic power plant capacity (including domestic shale oil mining to fuel it) to cover even peak usage. It's just often cheaper to import from Finland.
There are also a lot of renewable energy projects in progress to replace the shale oil systems, but again - capacity isn't the issue.