Moldovan PM electric energy might be purchased from West via Romania

Chisinau, 5 December /MOLDPRES/ - Prime Minister Dorin Recean has unveiled more scenarios, in order to avoid an energy crisis. According to the official, the electric energy might be bought from the West via Romania or from Romania or other countries, on the Isaccea-Vulcanesti power lines, as well as through the power lines from northern Moldova.

Prime Minister Dorin Recean said that the capacity of local production of electric energy might be enhanced, including at the Termoelectrica enterprise.

„We will activate the hydro-electric power station from Costesti, as far as possible. All the green, wind and photovoltaic energy will also be delivered on the local market. We take into account also the scenario in which we will purchase and will deliver natural gas to the Kuchurgan power station, so that electric energy is produced from this gas at least partially. I am firmly sure that some of the people from the left bank of Dniester will mobilize, in order to collect financial resources and to buy natural gas from the market for the local consumption,’’ Dorin Recean said.   

As for the risk that the people from the Transnistrian region will not pay for the gas provided, the PM stressed that this could not happen. ‘’They will not be able to consume electric energy or natural gas without paying,’’ Dorin Recean emphasized.  

Also, the prime minister stressed that eventually disconnections from power supply might exist. ‘’We might have some disconnections, but it would be about hours, not weeks or months. They will happen, as purely technically adaptation is necessary for the import of electric energy from Romania. In the most pessimistic scenario, we will have insular interconnections at the western border of Moldova with the energy system of Romania on the line 110 kV, the ones which are isolated from the lines of 400 kV, as they can be hit by eventual destructions from Ukraine,’’ Dorin Recean said.    

The Moldovan authorities elaborated a plan of preparation for the cold season. The draft provides for 45 measures for ensuring the security of the supply of energy resources in the winter of this year, including the voluntary reduction of the consumption of natural gas by 15 per cent and the promotion of the use of alternative fuels. The plan envisages also two scenarios of behavior of the Russian giant Gazprom, following the expiration of the contract on transit of natural gas on the territory of Ukraine on 1 January 2025.