According to Elering, Estonia’s electricity system will be ready to disconnect from the Russian grid and connect to the continental European grid in February.The impact on the final price of electricity is expected to be a small increase.
According to Elering CEO Kalle Kilk, switching from the Russian electricity system to the continental European one is a very big change as the Baltic countries will start to control the frequency of the electricity network themselves.The new system, which took ten years to build, cost €350 million in Estonia.
“The major infrastructure projects are all up and running and we are still putting the IT systems in place, so by the beginning of February everything will be 100 percent,” Kilk said.
Read more: ERR.EE
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