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Informational - no clear directional impact
Medium Impact
Significant progress or notable issue
Elektrilevi's 27 January 2026 news item on the new Hiiumaa–Saaremaa 35 kV submarine cable reports that the two old 35 kV oil-impregnated cables between the Pammana and Emmaste separation points were replaced by the new cable. The earlier 17 September 2025 project update detailed that the project scope included lifting the old cables from the seabed and utilising (disposing of) them. Together with the January 2026 commissioning reports, this indicates that decommissioning and removal of the two obsolete 35 kV submarine cables was completed by around January 2026, later than the original 11 December 2025 target.