The conference began with an introductory speech by our President, followed by our first speaker, Kristo Kaasik, Director of the Renewable Energy Sector at Estonia’s Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications.
Kristo Kaasik began his speech by taking stock of Estonia’s progress towards its targets for renewable energy production and consumption, in comparison with other European countries.
Estonia is the 8th European country with the highest share of renewable energy in its production (30.2% in 2020).
Nevertheless, Estonia has real difficulties in producing low-cost energy, which penalizes it and makes it less competitive on this market.
In any case, the country is not lacking in ambition, since the government’s stated goal is for 100% of the energy produced in Estonia to be renewable by 2030.
Kristo Kaasik also gave us an overview of the resources and infrastructure being deployed to achieve these targets, via solar and especially wind power projects.
This also involves changes in legislation to speed up the launch of these projects and achieve these targets on time.
In this way, Estonia also hopes to gain energy independence.

Then it was the turn of Raido Hallik, Director of Services and Renewable Energy Development at Enefit Green.
Raido Hallik began by pointing out that the current energy crisis has highlighted the extent of the EU’s dependence on fossil fuels.
Enefit Green’s ambition is to become the largest producer of renewable energy in the Baltic States and a major player in this sector in Poland.
Enefit Green currently relies on long-term energy sales contracts to invest in new renewable energy infrastructures, with a focus on solar/wind complementarity.
In particular, our speaker stressed the need to develop offshore wind farms.
Questioned by one of our members about the absence of a development plan for nuclear energy in Estonia, Mr. Hallik explained that Estonia had no experience in this field and therefore risked wasting too much time training the many engineers and workers needed for this kind of project.

• April 5: Breakfast at the French Embassy in Estonia

• April 20 – 18:00/21:00: Start-up competition – New start: Empowering Ukrainian women through mentoring

• May 8 – Cocktail + Dinner with MEDEF Lille Métropole