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The renewable electricity produced in October would be enough to cover the electricity needs of approximately 36,000 average households for a year. Enefit Green's wind farms had the highest productivity in October, generating a total of 90 gigawatt-hours of electricity. More than half of the production, that is 50.5 gigawatt-hours, came from Estonian wind farms, and 39.5 gigawatt-hours were produced by Lithuanian wind farms.

"Thanks to stable wind conditions and good reliability of wind farms, we can see consistently higher renewable electricity production year-on-year," Aavo Karmas, chairman of the management board of Enefit Green, said.

The 108.5 gigawatt-hours produced in October includes the outputs of Estonian and Lithuanian wind farms, solar parks in Estonia and Poland, the Iru, Paide, Valka and Broceni cogeneration plants, Keila-Joa hydroelectric power plant and Ruhnu renewable energy solution.

Enefit Green's heat production from the Iru and Paide cogeneration plants in Estonia and the Valka and Broceni cogeneration plants in Latvia amounted to 18 GWh in October, which is 20 % more than in September, the reason being the cooling weather and the beginning of the heating season.

The increase in renewable energy production will contribute to Eesti Energia's strategic goal of producing 43% of electricity and heat from renewable sources in 2024.

Enefit Green is a renewable energy subsidiary of the Eesti Energia Group, which currently owns a total of 20 wind farms in four markets -- Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland -- as well as four  cogeneration plants, 36 solar power plants, a pellet plant and a hydroelectric power plant.