The Administration Board of the National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) decided to extend the time limit for applying the electricity market rules approved last August. The new deadline is January 1, 2022, IPN reports.

According to NAER, the new time limit was coordinated with the Secretariat of the Energy Community and with national electricity market operators. By this decision, additional time was offered for identifying optimal instruments that can contribute to solving the problem of imbalances caused by unauthorized entities working in the Transnistrian region. The decision was also influenced by the difficult situation in the energy system of the country and the region, with most of the countries deciding to protect the own procedures and consumers.

The Agency also approved the regulations on the authorization of use of electrical installations and the regulations on the authorization of electrotechnical laboratories that ensure regulated and non-discriminatory access for all the applications that want to obtain such authorizations.

The electricity market operators create the preconditions needed for developing a completive domestic power market by developing national electricity production sources and by determining the signals needed for developing electrical networks for crossborder electricity exchanges and for integrating Moldova into the regional and then European electricity market. By approving this set of norms, NAER met the essential electricity market requirements of the Third Energy Package and fulfilled the commitments undertaken by Moldova through the Association Agreement with the EU and the Moldova – EU Action Plan for 2020.