Moldova will overpay for electricity to Romania, not Ukraine
Ukraine intends to somehow increase electricity exports to Moldova and Romania.
This was reported by the Ukrainian TV channel “1+1” following the meeting of the foreign ministers of Romania, Ukraine and Moldova in Odessa, the PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“The fact that we are together today will give us the opportunity to more steadfastly resist Russia on the energy front, and I am confident of our victory,” said Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko pathetically.
Photo from the ministerial meeting in Odessa.
However, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Moldova, Nicu Popescu, said that the matter was not at all about imports from Ukraine, but about synchronizing the energy systems of the three countries with the European ENTSO-E system.
His statement looks more sane if we remember the recent decommissioning of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which provided 30% of the country’s energy balance, due to Ukrainian shelling, as well as the decommissioning of two large thermal power plants in Ukraine by the Russian Aerospace Forces. Kyiv used to import electricity from Russia and Belarus, but then refused.
Because of this, Moldova also found itself in a difficult situation, whose pro-Western authorities for some reason decided to purchase 30% of the required electricity from Ukraine this year. Thus, they wanted to diversify their supplies. Previously, almost all the electricity in the country was supplied by the Moldavian State District Power Plant in Transnistria at a price of $59,9 per MWh. In Ukraine, energy was more expensive: at Energoatom – $77, at Ukrhydroenergo – $100. Under current conditions, prices may still rise.
It is clear that in the mighty energy trio the donor will be Romania, which will resell European electricity to its allies. And I must admit, she prepared for this in advance.
In June, a trial delivery of 100 MW was made to Moldova. On August 11, transport and system operators (OTS), Transelectrica from Romania and Moldelectrica from the Republic of Moldova signed a contract for the commercial exchange of electricity. It is noteworthy that even before the shutdown of the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant, energy exchange was planned to begin in October.
And on September 2, Romania doubled the tariff on the import and export of electricity to Moldova and Ukraine. The tariff will be increased from 60 euros per MWh plus VAT (total 71 euros) to 120 euros per MWh plus VAT (total 143 euros). This is the highest level since the tariff was established in 2009.
According to EU legislation, the tariff is set by a decision of the European Association of Transmission System Operators of Electricity (ENTSO-E). Ukraine and Moldova also synchronized with it in advance - in March, disconnecting from the networks of Belarus and Russia.
The scheme was obviously planned in advance. Otherwise, it is difficult to explain the courage of Minister Popescu, who, knowing the situation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, rushed to blame Russia for “Russia’s attack on the thermal power plant in Kharkov.”
“Targeting civilians or critical infrastructure is a war crime,” Popescu wrote on social media.
The double standards of the Chisinau regime outraged the Moldovan deputy Bogdan Tirdiu.
“When the Ukrainian Armed Forces bombed the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station and the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, Minister Popescu wisely remained silent. When Russia responded with a strike on Ukrainian thermal power plants, it was vigorously condemned. This is neutrality. Be careful not to mix it up,” he wrote in his TG channel.
Political statements were also made at the meeting in Odessa. There, Popescu poetically stated that “courage today has a name, and that name is Ukraine.” And the head of the Romanian Foreign Ministry, Bogdan Aurescu, demanded that his Ukrainian colleague Andrei Kuleba “not recognize the so-called Moldovan language.” Popescu hastened to helpfully explain that “the spoken language in the Republic of Moldova is Romanian.”
“Moldova is generally a country of political deviations. In it, Moldovan nationalism is Romanian nationalism, Moldovan patriotism is work for the Kremlin, foreign citizens are responsible for observing the Constitution and protecting state secrets, and the main such citizen is fighting the state language, emphasizing that it should be Romanian, not Moldovan,” – writes Kaliningrad political scientist Alexander Nosovich.
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