Estonia’s Ministry of Climate has drawn up a draft bill that would allow building nuclear power plants in the country, ERR reports. The law, which would come into force in January 2027, would task the Consumer Protection and Technical Regulatory Authority (TTJA) with regulation. Energy Minister Andres Sutt suggested that Estonia could eventually have small modular reactors. He noted that Estonia still imported about a third of its electricity. Meanwhile, the state-owned transmission system operator, Elering, estimated that Estonia needed 1,200 MW of electricity generation capacity by 2028, 1,300 MW by 2030, and around 2,100 MW by 2035, ERR reported. CEO Kalle Kilk said that 800-1,000 MW of new power plants were thus needed by 2035 to ensure the security of supply. Elering plans to build a third electricity connection to Finland and a fourth power link to Latvia in 2035-2038, ERR reports.
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