Fingrid Oyj - Company Announcement

Fingrid and Elering will become the new owners of Estlink 1

Helsinki, Finland, 2013-11-27 14:00 CET (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Fingrid Oyj
Stock Exchange release 27 November 2013 at 15.00 EET

Today, a sales contract was concluded for the first Estonian-Finnish submarine
cable Estlink 1, making the Finnish grid network company Fingrid and Estonian
grid network company Elering the new owners of the transmission cable as of 30
December, 2013. The total cost of the sales transaction was 77.6 million euros. 

Previously, the Finnish and Estonian transmission system operators have rented
the cable capacity from its owners, Nordic Energy Link ("NEL") and N.E.L.
Finland Oy, the shareholders of which are Eesti Energia (holding of 39.9%),
Latvenergo (25%), Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba (25%), and Finestlink (10.1%). 

For the sales transaction to take effect, the Estonian Competition Authority
has to give its consent, after which the assets will be owned 50% by the
Finnish grid network company Fingrid and 50% by Elering as of 30 December this
year. 

Estlink 1, active since the end of 2006, is the first connection between the
networks of Baltic and Nordic countries. The Estlink 1 cable was established by
Eesti Energia, Latvenergo from Latvia, Lietuvos Energijos Gamyba from
Lithuania, and Finestlink (joint company of Pohjolan Voima and Helsingin
Energia) from Finland. 

The transmission capacity of Estlink 1 is 350 MW. The total length of the cable
is 210 kilometres (two parallel cables 105 kilometres long), of which 148
kilometres are under the sea and 62 kilometres on land. The deepest section ofthe cable is 100 metres below sea level on the seafloor. 

Additional information:

Jukka Ruusunen, President & CEO, Fingrid, tel. +358 30 395 5140
Kari Kuusela, Executive Vice President, Fingrid, tel. +358 30 395 5129
Marina Louhija, General Counsel, Fingrid, tel. +358 30 395 5289



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