Vladimir Dorofeyev, a representative of the Russian national electricity grid, does not believe that a proposed new electric cable that would supply Finland with 1,000 megawatts of electricity generated in Russia, is a viable idea.
In an interview on a Finnish television news broadcast on Thursday, Dorofeyev said that there will not be enough electric power for export in the St. Petersburg area in the coming years.
Baltenergo, the company that has offered to set up the cable that would run beneath the Gulf of Finland, has promised that it would build a gas-fired plant for reserve energy to ensure sufficient supplies of power for the Finnish cable.
"We have tried for years to solve the problem of availability of a gas network in the area", Dorofeyev said in the interview with YLE TV News.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry has asked the Russian Energy Ministry for more information on the country's electricity production situation as a basis for its consideration of the application for a licence for the proposed cable.
