Studies carried out in the southern Pärnu County section of the planned Rail Baltica high-speed rail link find the development would interfere with forests there to the extent that its construction would likely require a European Union Natura 2000 exception.
Minister of Finance Keit Pentus-Rosimannus (Reform) submitted a bill to the Estonian government for the initiation of a national designated spatial plan for the electrical connections of an offshore wind farm in the Gulf of Riga. Both Utilitas and Eesti Energia are interested in building offshore wind farms in the gulf; the spatial plan is to explore the latter's connections.