Moldova increased consumption of Ukranian electricity by 3.6 times in 2010
Ukraine supplied 24.8 million kW/hour of electricity to Moldova in 2010, which is 3.6 times more (+17.9 million kW/hour) than in 2009. The data was provided by the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Ukraine.
For example, the supplies to Moldova went up over 4 times in December against the equivalent period of 2009 and reached 3.3 million kW per hour.
As Infotag has already reported, Moldova was buying about 75% of the consumed energy in Ukraine till 2009. But due to some price difficulties, Moldova has restarted buying electricity from the Moldavskaya GRES at the cost of 5.5 American cents per 1 kW/hour since January 1, 2009. The purchase contract runs out in the end of March 2011.
Ukraine was exporting about 250 million kW/hour of electricity to Moldova till the stoppage of exports, and there has been kept only a so-called interchange power regime since January 1, 2009. The Ukrainian electricity exports went down about 2 times in 2009 due to the Chisinau's refusal to buy its electricity.
Ukraine hopes to restart the electricity supplies to Moldova in 2011. The Power Trade company that enters the group of the System Capital Management governing company of Ukraine, which belongs to businessman Rinat Achmetov, bought the right to access the 200 MW throughput-capacity power supply networks towards Moldova in the end of 2010.
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