The procedure for connecting end-users to the electric power supply network will be simpler and shorter, as provided in a bill with amendments to the Law on Electric Power approved by the Government, IPN reports.

The bill stipulates that the operators of electric power transportation and distribution networks will fulfill the works to design and build networks with a view to connecting potential consumers in the ‘one-stop’ office regime.

The connection notice will be issued within 10 days. The term for connecting the installation to the low-voltage power line will not exceed 10 workdays for cases that do not need embankment works. In the other cases, it will not exceed 40 workdays.

The term for connecting the installation to the medium- and high-voltage power line, in the case of non-household users and economic entities, will not exceed 60 workdays.

Thus, the longest term for connecting the economic entities to the electric power network will decrease from 140 to 70 days, together with the period for obtaining the notice.

In all these cases, the potential end-user will pay the connection tariff set by the National Agency for Energy Regulation according to the approved methodology.

The simplification of the procedure for connecting the household and non-household users to the electric power network is one of the obligations assumed by Moldova as a member state of the Energy Community Treaty.