Internal lighting in buildings will be reduced by at least 30% where it is possible and will be turned off immediately after the buildings remain empty. The fountains, window shops, advertising, architectural and decorative lighting, except for lighting of company emblems during the working programs, will be switched off, as the Commission for Exceptional Situations decreed, IPN reports.

Under the Commission’s order, the managers of public buildings and commercial units will ensure the functioning of heating installations in a minimum regime or at a temperature that will not exceed 19 degrees Celsius, while outside the working hours – 15 degrees Celsius, to the extent to which the technical capacities permit this.

The functioning of escalators is to be interrupted between 7am and 11am and between 6pm and 11pm, except for those used to transport goods and weights and when the suspension can affect the security and health of people.

The Commission ordered that the enterprises that in the production process use electric owners and electric melting equipment are to organize the working program so that the processes when the largest part of electrical energy is used are performed outside the 7am-11am and 6pm-11pm periods. The managers of water supply and sewerage companies are to regulate the functioning of pumps in accumulation lakes so as to reduce the use of electricity to a minimum in the aforementioned periods, by maximally realizing the potential of accumulation lakes.

Measures to reduce electric energy consumption, primarily at rush hour, will also be taken by the central and local public authorities. Incandescent lamps will be replaced with LED devices and street lighting will be disconnected during the day (between 7am and 6pm). For their part, the managers of apartment buildings and other blocks that have elevators on the first floor will place notices warning to avoid using the elevator between 7am and 11am and between 6pm and 11pm.

The data concerning monthly energy consumption of public institutions, compared with the last three years, will be transmitted to power suppliers and distributions and will be posted on controlezfactura.gov.md by the Ministry of Infrastructure and Regional Development.

The earlier approved derogation by which SA “Termoelectrica” is exempted from paying excise duties on crude oil will be also applied in the case of other business entities that import crude oil.