Medium-size electrical interconnector Estlink-2 is down from unknown cause.
It is a 658 MW cable on the bottom of Gulf of Finland between Estonia and Finland.
I am indisposed to look more closely but @garygnutter.bsky.social and @pekka.bsky.social likely will.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20133464
It is a 658 MW cable on the bottom of Gulf of Finland between Estonia and Finland.
I am indisposed to look more closely but @garygnutter.bsky.social and @pekka.bsky.social likely will.
https://yle.fi/a/74-20133464
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This is quite literally the first thing I saw now that I turned on the computer.
Surely they couldn't do it again now?! Seems like there's already a suspect but no info about the fault itself so could be something inland as well.
(asking for a friend : how do offending ships respond to EW energy going in their direction, once they mess with underwater cables. ...)
1. The ship is at the same potential as the surrounding water.
2. The cable break is detected and the power is shut down immediately.
Would be a symbolic cut of connections ;-)
And maybe one can even attribute EW hiccups on ships to GPS janmig and the like in Kaliningrad :-)
I think it would be smart not to immediately fire EW at the potential culprit but investigate first.
but that ship is:
XIN XIN TIAN 2
Container Ship
IMO 9359715
An attribution needs more careful analysis than shown here.