The end users will not be affected by the rise in the gas transportation tariffs. Moldovatransgaz assures the modification of the natural gas transportation tariff that was proposed for examination in last week’s meeting of the National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) will not lead to a rise in the natural gas price for end users in Moldova, IPN reports.

In a press release, the company said the current tariff for the provision of the natural gas transportation service is 32.32 lei/1000 m3. The given tariff was calculated depending on the total volume of natural gas transported to Moldova (19.948,45bn m3), including for the consumers of the Republic of Moldova (997,613m m3) and the volume of transited natural gas (18.950,84bn m3). In 2019, the volume of natural gas transited through Moldova decreased considerably: by 88.9% (reverse flow regime) and by 93.5% (classical regime).

Among other important factors that will influence the modification of tariffs for the provision of the natural gas transportation service is the updating of these in accordance with the conditions stipulated in the current tariff methodology approved by the NAER, taking into account the effective indicators for 2015-2018, the indicators projected for 2019 and those projected for 2020.

It is planned that these tariffs will be provisional until the new methodology for calculating the regulated tariffs for the natural gas transportation service takes effect. This will stipulate a new model of calculating gas transportation tariffs, based on the entrance – exit principle.

It should be noted that the gas transportation network operators of Moldova and Ukraine signed a tripartite interconnection agreement for all the interconnection points - Alexeevka, Grebeniky, Căuşeni, Ananyiv, Limanskoe - for ensuring the transportation of natural gas as of January 1, 2020, given that two natural gas transportation scenarios, in reverse flow  regime and in classical regime, are possible for Moldova in 2020.