德国法兰克福-芬兰总理佩特里·奥尔波周三表示，波罗的海海底连接芬兰和爱沙尼亚的一条电力电缆遭遇断电，引发了一项调查。
Orpo在X上写道，通过Estlink-2电缆的电力传输于周三停止，当局正在“调查此事”他说中断不会影响芬兰的电力供应。
公共广播公司ERR在其网站上表示，爱沙尼亚网络运营商Elering表示，爱沙尼亚方面有足够的备用容量来满足电力需求。
当局一直对波罗的海的海底基础设施感到紧张。两条数据电缆，一条连接芬兰和德国，另一条连接立陶宛和瑞典11月被切断.
德国国防部长表示，官员们不得不假设这一事件是“蓄意破坏”，但没有提供证据，也没有说明谁可能对此负责。在一次演讲中，他讨论了来自俄罗斯的混合战争威胁。
曾经将天然气从俄罗斯输送到德国的北溪天然气管道是被水下爆炸损坏2022年9月。当局称这是蓄意破坏，并展开了刑事调查。
ERR报道说，Estlink-2电缆今年大部分时间都在停机，以修复可能由电缆复杂定位引起的短路损坏。
Undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia hit by outage, prompting investigation
FRANKFURT, Germany --A power cable linking Finland and Estonia under the Baltic Sea suffered an outage, prompting an investigation, Finnish Prime Minister Petteri Orpo said Wednesday.
Writing on X, Orpo said that power transmission through the Estlink-2 cable stopped Wednesday and that authorities were “investigating the matter.” He said the interruption would not affect electricity supplies in Finland.
Estonian network operator Elering said there was enough spare capacity to meet power needs on the Estonian side, public broadcaster ERR said on its website.
Authorities have been on edge about undersea infrastructure in the Baltic. Two data cables, one running between Finland and Germany, the other between Lithuania and Sweden, weresevered in November.
Germany's defense minister said officials had to assume the incident was “sabotage," but without providing evidence or saying who might have been responsible. The remark came during a speech in which he discussed hybrid warfare threats from Russia.
The Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that once brought natural gas from Russia to Germany weredamaged by underwater explosionsin September 2022. Authorities have termed it sabotage and launched criminal probes.
The Estlink-2 cable was down for much of this year to repair damage from a short circuit that may have been caused by the cable's complex positioning, ERR reported.
