Prime Minister Pavel Filip assured that the replacement of the company from which Moldova imported electrical power will not lead to a shortage of power, as some experts assert. The Premier developed the issue in the talk show “Moldova life” on the public TV channel Moldova 1, IPN reports.
“We are sure that we will not encounter problems with the supply of power to the Republic of Moldova. Our country has its own interests and we, those from the administration, are obliged to do everything possible for the electricity to be cheaper. The bid of the Ukrainian supplier was the most advantageous one for us. Those from Transnistria are angry because we stopped to import power from Cuciurgan and will thus criticize us, no matter what we do,” stated the Prime Minister.
Pavel Filip assured that the problem of supply of natural gas will be also solved, by the end of 2018. “Next summer we will start to extend the Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline to Chisinau and we hope we will complete the project by the end of 2018. We found the necessary money. The EIB and EBRD will lend us a part of the money, while the other part will come from EU grants,” he stated.
SA Energocom has recently signed a contract for the supply of electricity to Moldova, at the price of US$50.2 per MWH, with Ukraine’s DTEK Trading. It thus rejected the bid of the Cuciurgan Plant, which offered a higher price. Moldovan experts anticipated that the volume of power imported from Ukraine would not satisfy Moldova’s needs.
