WriterNig:


Russia suspends electricity supplies to Finland, a supplier said on Friday as tensions rise over Helsinki's NATO bid amid Moscow's military campaign in Ukraine.

'We are forced to suspend the electricity import starting from May 14,' said RAO Nordic, a subsidiary of Russian state energy holding Inter RAO.

'RAO Nordic is not able to make payments for the imported electricity from Russia.'

The firm is not directly faced with Western sanctions over the invasion into Ukraine, Montel News reports. However the outlet adds Inter Rao Lietuva - its 51% owned Lithuanian subsidiary - is.

MailOnline has reached out to RAO Nordic for more information.

It comes as Russia yesterday accused Finland of 'pushing above its weight' as the country signalled its intention to join NATO.

Putin's EU ambassador vowed to bolster defences on the Russia and Finland's shared 800-mile-long border if it decided to join the alliance.

Vladimir Chizhov said if Finland joined it would lead to 'certain military-technical measures, like improving or raising the degree of defence preparations along the Finnish border'.



A move would 'certainly necessitate rethinking of Russian defence posture' but not 'necessarily [involve] troops and tanks, but certain preparations like radars, perhaps', he told Sky News.

Yesterday a former British ambassador to Russia has said there may be 'much more Russian nuclear deployment in the Baltic' areas in response to Finland potentially becoming a NATO member in light of the war in Ukraine.

Sir Tony Brenton told BBC's Newsnight programme the Kremlin may think 'it expands their view of NATO as a threat to them'.

He said: 'They will be very conscious especially as this war winds its way to a conclusion that their conventional forces have not produced the results they hoped for.

'They will be increasingly inclined therefore to use their nuclear strength as a demonstration they need to be taken seriously.

'I think we need to resign ourselves to the likelihood of much more Russian nuclear deployment in the Baltic area as a response to Finland's accession to NATO, when it comes, and Sweden's very likely one as well.'

God1000:
Russia will equally feel the impact, revenue will drop.

Clean energy is what many countries are working towards achieving now

God1000:
Russia will equally feel the impact, revenue will drop.

Clean energy is what many countries are working towards achieving now

ken6488:
This war has revealed how important Russia is to Europe as for Finland she should get her electricity from USA na

The electricity sector in Finland relies on nuclear power, forest industry black liquor and wood consumption, cogeneration and electricity import from neighboring countries. In 2008 the consumption of electricity in Finland was 17 036 kWh/person. The European union (15) average was 7 409 kWh/person.[1] Co-generation of heat and electricity for industry process heat and district heating is common in Finland.

Industry was the majority consumer of electricity between 1990 and 2005 with 52-54% of total consumption. The forest industry alone consumed 30-32%.[2]

Between 2000 and 2006, up to 7 TWh per year was imported from Sweden and up to 11.5 TWh from Russia. Net imports during this time varied between 7 TWh to Sweden and 7 TWh from Sweden, and 4 to 11 TWh from Russia. Since 2007, some electricity has also been imported from Estonia.[3]

In 2012, most of the imports were from Sweden (14.4 TWh net import) with Russia also contributing to the net imbalance (4.4 TWh import only), while exports to Estonia were larger than imports (1.1 TWh net export).[4]

Capacity

[b]As of 2020, the total capacity of power generation in Finland is 17.5 G[/b]W.[8] However, not all of that is available at the same time and an increasing amount is intermittent generation, mostly from wind power (see below).

The national grid operator Fingrid, together with TSOs from other Nordic countries, produces yearly estimates about the availability of power in the winter demand peak. In 2019-2020 they estimated a peak Finnish demand of 15.3 GW, during which Finland would have 11.9 GW of production capacity, not including capacity reserves. That would have meant a shortfall of 3.4 GW to be imported from neighbors.[9] Due to a mild winter and industrial strikes the actual demand peak was only 12.4 GW and availability was never in question. No capacity reserve was activated.[10]

plaindealer:


Ode, PouTin, Finland saw you coming, they were ready and the little 10% they get from you is replaceable with ease, you just scored your own goal again.

Blackmail and hostage-taking is like saying to your customers never to trust or rely on you.

This is the kind of threat that led Finland to NATO in the first place.

PouTin is just too dumb and overrated.

Cmanforall:

Na one young baby dey lead the country

Kingpin1000:
You dey chop my food, you still want fight me.
Na the food you dey chop dey give you strength to challenge, so make I stop to give you food and make we see how you go get strength take fight me_ Russia

God1000:
Russia will equally feel the negative impact, revenue will drop.

Clean energy is what many countries are working towards achieving now

Dalil8:
I still don't get why Russia hasn't placed troops, nuclear weapons & ICBMs in Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela yet.

Or form their own alliance with all NATO adversaries.

Since NATO has refused to stop moving towards Russia's borders. Russia should start moving closer to NATO's borders.

ken6488:
This war has revealed how important Russia is to Europe as for Finland she should get her electricity from USA na

Kingpin1000:

You are the foolish person, how can you be selling guns to a thief and you expect security.
These three things has been harvested from your head by western media:
1. Cerebellum
2. Medulla oblangata
3. Cerebrum.
Let CNN think for you

colestephan86:

It's really bad ,
A country you depend so much on, say he doesn't want something,and you choose to go against its rules.

NwaNimo1:
Exactly what I would have done.....

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...they should also cut the 'fresh air' supplied to Nigeria!

Dalil8:
I still don't get why Russia hasn't placed troops, nuclear weapons & ICBMs in Cuba, Nicaragua & Venezuela yet.

Or form their own alliance with all NATO adversaries.

Since NATO has refused to stop moving towards Russia's borders. Russia should start moving closer to NATO's borders.

iluvdonjazzy:
They should not worry Nigeria will give them power, we have enough power here.

Kingpin1000:

You are the foolish person, how can you be selling guns to a thief and you expect security.
These three things has been harvested from your head by western media:
1. Cerebellum
2. Medulla oblangata
3. Cerebrum.
Let CNN think for you

VeryWickedMan:
This war is just revealing how big Russia is.

So imagine Finland, a European country cannot generate its own electricity which means they are on Niger Republic and Benin third world level.

Nigeria is better than a lot of countries but our inferiority complex won't let us see it.

1stGenAmerican:


Finland was well prepared and already has a replacement for the small amount of imported electricity. Finland is still joining NATO and Russia will miss the revenue coming in from Finland.

Since you’re Putin’s houseboy, will you ask him to send the unwanted energy to you in Nigeria?