The Transnistrian region is receiving 3 million cubic meters of gas per day, enough to cover the needs of the population and for the operation of the Cuciurgan power plant. The announcement was made by Energy Minister Dorin Junghietu. According to the minister, the power plant is working, but it produces electricity exclusively for consumption on the left bank of the Dniester.
“There are no requests to increase this volume of gas”, the minister said during the program “Punctul pe Azi” on TVR Moldova.
The official noted that, in the absence of sufficient gas volumes, industry in the breakaway region is still shut down. “The current volumes do not allow restarting industrial processes”, the minister emphasized.
“The information that has been presented in the public space shows that the industry is operating at very low capacities, because the small volumes of gas are not enough to allow the industry to operate at full capacity”, added Dorin Junghietu.
As for the dense smoke observed in the area of the Rabnita metallurgical plant, Junghietu explained that it comes from the controlled burning of gas, necessary to maintain certain technological processes.
“I suspect that at MMZ there are technological processes that need a minimum amount of gas to operate”, said Dorin Junghietu.
Tiraspol, through Moldovagaz, buys natural gas on the international market with the financial support of the Russian Federation.
