MOLDOVA INCREASES BY 72% UKRAINIAN POWER CONSUMPTION IN 2013

In 2013, Ukraine supplied to Moldova 1.455 billion kW/hour of electric energy, which is 72.1% (609.9 million kW/hour) more than in 2012.

According to the Ministry of Energy and Coal Industry, in 2013, Ukraine increased the export of electric energy by 1.2%, to 9.861 billion kW/hour.

Moldova is one of the leading consumers of Ukrainian power, after Belarus (3.2 billion kW/h) and Hungary, which together with Slovakia, Romania and Poland imported 5.396 billion kW/h of electricity in 2013.

Starting from April 1, 2012, the Ukrainian company TDEK VostokEnergo, which signed an annual contract with Gas Natural Fenosa – Moldova, has been supplying electric power to Moldova. The electric power rate has been preserved at the level of the 2012 year – 6.9 US cents per 1 kW/h.

Moldova produces only 20-25% of the consumed electric energy. The leading power supplier is the Moldavskaya GRES, which belongs to the Russian company Joint Stock Company Inter RAO UES and is located in Transnistria. The import from the Moldavskaya GRES covers only a half of Moldova’s power energy demands, the rest being supplied by the DTEK VostokEnergo. In 2014, the second Ukrainian power supplier to Moldova will become the DonbassEnergo company.

Infotag’s dossier: The DTEK VostokEnergo comprises three thermal power plants: Zuyevska, Kurakhovska (both in Donetsk Region) and Luganska (Lugansk Region). Its installed capacity is 4,157 MW. Following the successful modernization of its equipment, the installed capacity increased 32 MW in 2009 and 40 MW in 2010. The leading private energy company of Ukraine is headed by well-known businessman Rinat Akhmetov.