The Estonian government will tighten controls on the transit of goods subject to EU sanctions, Ukrainska Pravda reports. Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said that attempts to evade sanctions continued to occur on the border with Russia. She noted that the EU’s latest sanctions package exacerbated the threats. The government will therefore replace the present risk-based…
The Latvian language technology company, Tilde, has received funding from the European Commission (EC) to develop a large language model (LLM) for smaller European languages, LRT reports. The company won the EC’s Large AI Grand Challenge competition, which includes an award of EUR 250,000 and access to Europe’s most powerful supercomputer, LUMI, in Finland. Arturs…
Estonia’s transmission system operator, Elering, plans to replace the damaged EstLink 2 undersea power cable by the end of August 2024, ERR reports. Preparatory work is ongoing, with the reserve cable sourced from Sweden. The power cable, which links Estonia and Finland, failed unexpectedly in January 2024. The fault was located at a complex point…
The EstLink 2 undersea electricity cable connecting Estonia and Finland malfunctioned in late January 2024 due to an internal short circuit, transmission system operator Elering announced, ERR reports. The short circuit may have been caused by the cable’s steep angle where it transitions from land to sea. Experts believe the fault resulted from either geological…
Estonia’s electricity transmission system operator, Elering, has finally located the fault in the EstLink 2 power cable connecting Estonia and Finland, ERR reports. Complexities due to the area’s terrain and the cable’s design mean that repairs will now extend until the end of August 2024, the company announced. Initially, Elering expected the cable to be…
An investigation into the outage of the EstLink 2 power interconnection between Estonia and Finland has so far found no “intentional external damage” in the undersea cable, Estonian transmission system operator Elering announced, ERR reports. The exact location of the fault and the specific cause of the outage remain to be determined, however. Finnish transmission system operator…
Estonia’s and Finland’s electrcity transmission system operators, Elering and Fingrid, have located a fault in the EstLink 2 undersea power cable between the two countries, ERR reports. The location is in the vicinity of the cable landing point on the Estonian coast. The operators concluded that the fault was not caused by external damage. The…
The EstLink 2 submarine power cable between Estonia and Finland went offline on the night of 25-26 January 2024, ERR reported. The cause and exact location of the outage are still unknown. Estonia’s transmission system operator, Elering, assured that there was no threat to the security of electricity supplies to Estonia. The EstLink 1 power…
Building unified Baltic defence infrastructure should be coordinated with Finnish and Polish military experts, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevics stated, LETA reports. Baltic cooperation with Finland and Poland was necessary to create an effective defence mechanism, he said. At the same time, Rinkevics reminded that Latvia was part of NATO’s defence planning. He discussed the issue…
