According to Raul Kotov, a member of the management board of Eesti Gaas, the company may be able to lower its prices for domestic customers from December. However, this will only happen if gas prices stabilize and Eesti Gaas plans to start offering customers fixed-price packages again in the coming weeks.
Leaks from the Nord Stream gas pipeline discovered on Tuesday will not affect Estonia's gas supply but they may raise gas prices in the foreseeable future, said Raul Kotov, board member of state-owned energy company Eesti Gaas.
Gas provider Eesti Gaas is about to order its subsidiary Gaasivõrk to stop supplying a small Tallinn grid company called Tallinngaas with natural gas. Around 70 customers stand to lose access to gas in a week's time as things stand.
Estonian experts do not expect the price of gas to fall in the coming months and see no reason for it to do so until the end of the year. Currently, there is a shortage across Europe.
Exactly how Estonia will have to pay for imports of Russian natural gas in rubles, following an announcement from Russian leader Vladimir Putin that European customers would have to do just that, is not yet clear, Estonia's largest gas supplier, Eesti Gaas says.