This is a best prospect industry sector for this country. Includes a market overview and trade data.
Last Published: 7/17/2019

Overview

Thanks to its large domestic oil shale reserves, Estonia is relatively independent in energy, but produces the second highest greenhouse gas emissions per capita in the EU.  The Estonian government is planning to diversify electricity supply via investment in renewables and cleaner oil shale technology, which will create commercial opportunities for U.S. companies. Estonia's renewable energy potential lies mainly in biomass, biogas, wind and cogeneration from bio fuels. There is also interest in other energy technologies such as smart grid solutions.

The largest ongoing project is the desynchronization of the Estonian (together with Latvia and Lithuania) electricity grid from the BRELL grid and synchronizing it with continental Europe through Poland. Transmission Service Operators (TSOs) of the participating countries have signed an agreement describing the technical solution for the accession and the tests and studies necessary to make the transition. More info.

Planning for further investments is also underway. An application for co-financing from the European Union for the next phase of works will be submitted next year.
The total cost of the Baltic's synchronization project is about 1.3 to 1.5 billion euros, and Estonia's share is approximately 350 million euros.  The European Union provided 75 percent of the amount required, or 141 million euros, for the first phase of investment in.

The three Baltic countries plan to join the continental Europe frequency area by the end of 2025.

Estonian electricity utility Elektrilevi signed a contract in 2012 with Ericsson under which the network manufacturer will supply, deploy, systems integrate and run a smart-metering country wide network.  By January 2017 all 625,000 remote read meters were installed. Estonia is one of a number of European countries that are installing smart meters to help meet the EU target of improving energy efficiency by 20% by 2020. Ericsson will provide maintenance for three years and Elektrilevi will have the option of extending the maintenance contract until 2025.

Leading Sub-Sectors

Energy saving and storage technology 
Cogeneration technology
Smartgrid technology

Opportunities

Info on opprtunities

Web Resources

4 Energia
Eesti Energia
Estonian Wind Power Association
Estonian Power and Heat Association
Viru Keemia Grupp
Elering
Estonian Gas
 

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