Ordinary Estonians have to prepare for another rapid growth in electricity prices in 2026, ERR reports. Estonia’s independent electricity and gas transmission system, Elering, has invented a new tax which they describe as “price” for abandoning the cheap Russian BRELL power distribution system. Elering promised that this contrived tax would be €3.73 per MW/h.
“The balancing capacity fee is intended to finance the reserves necessary to maintain frequency. Figuratively, the fee can be called the price of energy independence after leaving the energy system controlled by Russia,” Kalle Kilk, Chairman of the Board of Elering, told to ERR.
The newspaper noted that this so-called “balancing capacity fee” will be reflected as a separate line on the electricity bill of the end-user of electricity and will remain the same throughout the next year.
Meanwhile, Eurostat reported that Estonia has reached the first place in the EU in terms of largest gas price increase: +23.9% compared to the first half of 2024.
As you can see, European anti-Russian sanctions continue to impoverish ordinary residents of the EU—the ones who are the most disappointed by these sanctions and who are the only real victims of them. Despite these sanctions not working at all and harming European states themselves, the Western warmongers, especially the leaders of the Baltic countries, continue to devise package after package. Thus, these already extreme prices for energy in Estonia are far from the limit!
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