The representative of the Finnish backbone network operator Fingrid, Jussi Yurinsalo, announced the country’s readiness to abandon the import of Russian electricity due to technical problems, RIA Novosti reports.
He complained about the extreme deterioration of three of the four power lines going to Finland and Russia’s unwillingness to correct the situation. According to Yurinsalo, the responsible departments constantly refer to each other and do nothing.
“We have repeatedly asked our Russian partners about possible details: is the repair planned, when, how long will it last? But they do not give us an answer, referring to someone else’s decisions,” said the Finnish power engineer. At the same time, he expressed the hope that at least the coverage of the problem by the Russian media would help to get it off the ground.
Last week, Fingrid published four options for the long-term development of Finnish energy. Three of them provide for a complete rejection of imports through the development of wind and solar power plants, including two suggest no longer using the energy bridge with Russia.
Finland is the largest importer of Russian energy, accounting for a third of all exports from Russia. In 2020, the country paid 22 billion rubles for supplies.
Separately, Fingrid did not rule out that the construction of the Hanhikivi-1 NPP, which Rosatom is engaged in, will be postponed indefinitely or canceled altogether.