Negative
Setback or risk materialised
Medium Impact
Significant progress or notable issue
EstLink 2 suffered an unplanned outage originating near the Estonian landfall in late January 2024, taking the 650 MW HVDC interconnector between Estonia and Finland offline. Transmission system operators Elering and Fingrid located the fault close to the cable landing on the Estonian coast and later attributed it to an internal short circuit in the power cable itself rather than external damage, triggering a prolonged shutdown for investigation and repair.