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While many customers hope for cheaper electricity prices under the universal service announced last month, thousands are opting-out of the service with a week left to do so, in the hopes of making more savings outside the scheme, daily Postimees reports.
According to Andres Vainola, head of Eesti Energia's subsidiary Enefit Power, which produces electricity from shale oil, the price set by the Competition Authority (Konkurentsiamet) for electricity as a universal service is too low and does not fully cover Enefit's production costs.