Kilowatt future looks bleak for Estonia
Nov 13, 2003
By Aleksei Gunter
TALLINN - Though the September power outage in the Tartu region did not affect a majority of Estonians, the state-owned Eesti Energia is coming under pressure from home and abroad to devise a more reliable system of electricity supply for the country.
Currently over 90 percent of electricity produced in Estonia comes from burning oil-shale, while the share of renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar energy, amounts to a mere 0.3 percent.The urgency of the issue has been increasing in re ...
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