Finland Launches Investigation After Another Undersea Cable Suffers Outage

A Hong Kong-registered cargo ship called Xin Xin Tian 2 was sailing over the cable, Estlink 2, when the outage occurred. 

Finland's Prime Minister Petteri Orpo arrives for an EU summit at the European Council building in Brussels on Dec. 19, 2024. Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP Photo

An undersea power cable connecting Finland and Estonia called the Estlink 2 interconnector suffered an outage on Dec. 25, making it the third undersea cable to face complications in recent months.

The cable’s operator, Fingrid, said in a statement that the unplanned outage occurred at 10:26 GMT, reducing capacity from more than 1,000 megawatts to 358. The cable was operating at 658 megawatts when the accident occurred.