SA “Moldovagaz” reserved the right to dispute in court the National Agency for Energy Regulation’s decision concerning the results of the planned inspection carried out at the company in 2016-2018. The supplier says the Agency’s findings are unfounded, IPN reports.

In a press release, “Moldovagaz” says it will not recalculate the value of natural gas supplied to non-household consumers during January 1, 2018 – March 16, 2018, in the total amount of 282.29 million lei, as the natural gas regulated tariffs and prices are not retroactive in character.

The sum of 109.36 million lei that appeared after fulfilling the obligation to service the external debt, which was earlier paid from the state budget, cannot be classed as tariff deviation as some of the non-domestic consumers didn’t fulfill their payment obligations and the mentioned debts weren’t fully cleared as a result.

“The costs associated with the implementation of the new system for processing and monitoring natural gas supply and consumption, in the amount of 3.56 million lei, were absolutely reasonable and necessary. The NAER assessed the works tendentiously and didn’t sufficiently examine the market prices applied when these works were commissioned. The information system confirmed the optimization of the human and financial resources of the supplier,” runs the press release.

The National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) on April 14 announced that it identified deviations from the regulations, including actions that caused pecuniary damage that is to be reimbursed and corrected in the immediate period, in the work of “Moldovagaz”.