Russia and Moldova have concluded the largest-ever contract to supply energy

Each month, the Moldovan Power Station, owned by Russian company Inter RAO EES , will deliver to the republic of 250 million kilowatt hours Contract signed for 15 months – from January 1, 2009 to 31 March 2010.TPP is supplied with electricity to almost completely cover domestic consumption of the country. The cost of electricity in Moldovan Power Station for Moldova will be about 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. The current contract to provide electricity to the republic, concluded with Ukraine, will expire in June 2009 goda.Postavki for consumers Moldova will be able to increase the download Moldovan Power Station until four or five of the twelve existing power plants. In recent years, has worked only two or three power. Moldovan Power Station – gazougolnaya station in the Transdniester region, one of the largest electricity producers in the region. The company is located in the city Dnestrovsk on the territory of the unrecognized Trans-Dniester Moldovan Republic. Its capacity is 2.52 thousand megawatts, and bandwidth of transmission lines enables you to export up to 1.2 thousand megawatts of electricity. In 2004 it was privatized, and the 2005-meters – purchased Inter RAO EES . However, it is loaded at 400 MW, and then through the delivery to Romania. The station is not working at full power two years ago, when Moldova withdrew from the contract with Russia for the supply of electricity from plants (whereas the annual supply to the republic accounted for 900 million kWh), procured it for Ukraine.S January 1, the company Inter RAO resume deliveries electricity from its plants in the Moldavian republic, which was unable to agree on a price of the last two and a half years. Price supply nearly double the one that offered Inter RAO in 2006, and the volume will grow from 900 million to 3 billion kWh per year. In Inter RAO expect to use revenue from shipments to Moldova for the modernization of the Moldovan Power Station. The station has twelve gas and coal blocks erected in Soviet times, now these facilities are in poor condition and require significant investment.