The National Agency for Energy Regulation (NAER) on Wednesday will examine the request of SA Moldovagaz to review the gas charges for end users, IPN reports.

“Given the current circumstances and the existing objective factors, the NAER will examine the supplier’s request as a matter of urgency. The Agency’s specialists will analyze the invoked arguments and will take a decision in an extraordinary public meeting scheduled for June 7, 2023,” said the NAER.

Moldovagaz proposed that the average natural gas charge should be decreased to 16,492 lei per 1,000 cubic meters of gas or by 36.8% from the current charge.

“The significant decline in the price at which SA Moldovagaz purchases natural gas from SA Energocom for satisfying the needs of consumers from the right bank of the Nistru, in accordance with the decisions taken by the Commission for Exceptional Situations, is the main factor that leads to the necessity of reviewing the charges,” the supplier said in a press release.

The last time, the natural gas charges for end users were raised on October 1, 2022. Then, the National Agency for Energy Regulation approved a charge of 27,103 lei/1,000 m3, plus 8% VAT. A cubic meter of natural gas for household users this way costs almost 30 lei.