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Developments in the natural gas sector The changes in natural gas consumption in recent years are shown in Figure 4 (source: Statistics Estonia and Eesti Gaas AS). FIGURE 4. Natural gas consumption broken down by years. Compared to the previous year, the consumption of natural gas in Estonia decreased by 9,7% in 2011. Such a significant decrease in consumption resulted from the increase of prices. The high price of natural gas was also one of the reasons that fuel-free heat (heat pumps) and heat produced from renewable sources (wood chips, peat) started replacing natural gas in local and district heating systems. The share of natural gas in the energy balance of Estonia has not changed significantly in recent years and still accounts for 10.1% of the primary energy supply (see Figure 5). 25
FIGURE 5. Primary energy balance of Estonia. Compared to the nearest neighbours, one distinctive characteristic of the use of natural gas in Estonia is that a mere 4% of it is used to generate electricity. The main sphere of application of natural gas is heat production (district heating (48%) + local heating (25%) = 73%). The trend towards a decrease in heat consumption results from the implementation of the energy conservation programme of the European Union and the Government of the Republic of Estonia. Security of supply of natural gas. In 2008, the European Council and the European Commission initiated the Baltic Energy Market Interconnection Plan (BEMIP). The BEMIP covers the electricity market as well as the natural gas market. The part of the BEMIP concerning the natural gas market implies connecting the Baltic States and Finland to the European Union’s natural gas market and the construction of the regional liquefied petroleum gas terminal (LPG terminal) in Finland or one of the Baltic States as well as the connection of the Estonian gas grid and Finnish gas grid with a subsea pipeline at the seabed of the Gulf of Finland (Balticconnector). The Balticconnector project is spearheaded by the Finnish natural gas undertaking Gasum OY. In 2011, the final report of the Balticconnector research project ordered by Gasum OY was completed. As the economic feasibility of the Balticconnector construction is connected to the appearance of new gas suppliers in the region [the LNG terminal(s) in the first place], the making of the decision as to the implementation of the project has been postponed. 26
Page 1 and 2: ANNUAL REPORT ESTONIAN COMPETITION
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