Negative
Setback or risk materialised
Medium Impact
Significant progress or notable issue
On Friday 5 January 2024, the Estlink 1 high‑voltage direct current (HVDC) interconnector between Estonia and Finland went offline at 11:17 a.m. due to a technical failure, interrupting power transmission when the link was carrying 50 MW. Finnish transmission system operator Fingrid reported the outage, describing it as a normal fault situation whose cause was under investigation.