Observance of quality indicators of power supply – ANRE’s priority in 2008

The observance of the quality indicators of the electric power supply, the monitoring of the investments made by the energy market operators and the improvement of the pricing methodology with the aim of ensuring equilibrium between the interests of the service providers and of the consumers are the top priorities of the National Agency for Energy Regulation (ANRE) in 2008. The objectives were formulated in the ANRE report on its activity and on the development of the markets from the sectors regulated by the Agency in 2007, Info-Prim Neo reports. The report was presented by ANRE to the Parliament and Government and was published on the Agency’s website (www.anre.md.). The document has two chapters. The first is a synthesis of the main activities carried out by ANRE to regulate the relations between the energy market participants, the pricing policy and the protection of the consumers. The second is an analysis of the progress recorded on the electric power, natural gas and oil products markets last year. The main report for 2007 shows that ANRE, by the decisions and measures taken, managed to ensure the smooth functioning of the energy system and optimal activity conditions for the energy market operators that worked without sustaining losses. The principal document adapted by ANRE in 2007 was a new methodology for calculating the electricity charges for consumers, which stipulates common principles and criteria for fixing tariffs for all the distributions companies, private or state-owned, providing thus equal working conditions for them. The report authors say that the approval of the new methodology for calculating and applying the prices of oil products in 2007 is a success of the Agency. It is based on the economic principle for covering the purchase, transportation, storing and selling costs of oil products. Under the same report, one of ANRE’s priorities in 2008 is to adopt the new regulations concerning the quality of the supply and distribution of electric power by end-June. The draft regulations stipulate the minimum requirements regarding the quality of the given service and the consequences that the suppliers will suffer for not observing them. Among other priorities of ANRE are the adoption of the methodology of calculating the tariffs for the auxiliary service provided by the natural gas distribution companies as well as the regulations concerning the procedures and rules of adjusting the charges to the services provided in the energy sector. According to the legislation, ANRE presents reports on its activity and on the development of the markets from the sectors regulated by it to the Parliament and Government every year. The reports have been drawn up since 2000 and can be found on ANRE’s website.