Romania will provide light to the Republic of Moldova next year as well. The authorities signed a new contract
Energocom, the company from Chisinau, signed a new contract for the sale and purchase of electricity with the company Nuclearelectrica from Romania. It provides for the provision of light for the month of January 2023.
The Republic of Moldova and Romania signed a new contract for lights. PHOTO: The Truth Archive
According to the contract, the Republic of Moldova will procure 10 MWh of bandwidth during the night and 30 MWh of bandwidth during the day.
“The price of energy, according to this contract, is 450 RON/MWh”, declared Victor Bînzari, the interim head of the Energocom company.
Thus, lit from Romania, along with the one on the left of the Dniester and the one produced in the Republic of Moldova, will in the first month of 2023 need neighboring countries.
“It is forecast that of the total electricity consumption requirement for the right bank of the Dniester, in January, about 60% will be provided by MGRES, about 30% will be the electricity produced by CETs and from renewable sources. Another approximately 10% of what is needed will be procured by Romanian suppliers, including to cover the energy deficit during peak hours”, Victor Bînzari also mentioned.
And the contract with Tiraspol on electricity research was extended
Recently, the Chisinau authorities announced that they have extended by one month the contract between the Energocom company and the Cuciurgan thermal power station (MGRES) on the left of the Dniester. According to him, electricity is procured, but natural gas received from Gazprom is delivered instead.
About the signing of the contract with MGRES, the relevant institution announced on December 3. A few days later, the Minister of Infrastructure and Regional Development, Andrei Spînu, declared that signing the contract with MGRES was a complicated decision, which costs him politically, but rationally and in the interest of the people. The official came up with explanations, against the background of the criticism received for these actions.
And the President of the Republic of Moldova, Maia Sandu, declared that the Executive must provide explanations regarding the decisions taken in the context of the energy crisis and reorganize its activity in this field.
In the last two months of autumn, Romania was the main supplier of electricity to the Republic of Moldova, after the country stopped receiving electricity from Ukraine due to the Russian bombings, but also from the Cuciurgan Thermal Power Plant. It stopped deliveries in a situation where natural gas supplies were reduced, according to the alleged leader from Tiraspol, Vadim Krasnoselski.