State Aid SA.102228 (2022/NN) – Estonia – Amendment to the budget of the support scheme for electricity produced from renewable sources and efficient cogeneration

Peer Ritter Your Ref: 03.03.2023 No European Commission DG COMP Our Ref: 06.03.2023 No 24.1-6/2023/1294- 2 State Aid SA.102228 (2022/NN) – Estonia – Amendment to the budget of the support scheme for electricity produced from renewable sources and efficient cogeneration Dear Mr. Ritter, First, I would like to thank you for every good co-operation on the matter at hand. We hereby answer to your questions accordingly: 1) Correct your submission that aid to the Aidu and Purtse projects will be granted automatically when they start production? We confirm that Aidu and Purtse projects will be granted aid automatically when they start production. According to the state aid decision, the end date of the support will be end of 2032. 2) Confirm, based on the definition of granting and your submissions that the right to receive the aid was granted by an EMA provision entered into force before the end of 2021, that any aid under the measure as amended by the notified aid budget increase has been granted by 31 December 2021 at the latest, which is the expiry date of the EEAG. And that no aid has been or will be granted under the measure as amended after 31 December 2021? We confirm that no aid has been or will be granted after 31 December 2021. With best regards, (signed digitally) Timo Tatar Deputy Secretary General for Energy and Mineral Resources Kristo Kaasik +372 6256465 [email protected] Suur-Ameerika 1 / 10122 Tallinn / ESTONIA Phone: +372 625 6342 / Fax: +372 631 3660 / E-mail: [email protected] / http://www.mkm.ee