Situation in security zone stabilized
The situation in the security zone was stabilized after a joint peacekeeping post was set there, a Moldovan representative to the Joint Control Commission (JCC), Ion Leahu has told MOLDPRES. On 12 January 2007, the Transnistrian police abusively moved by about 600 metres the Moldovan police’s mobile post situated on the Cocieri-Dubasari road. “We reacted to this. But the Transnistrians brought several hundreds of policemen on the scene in the afternoon of 13 January 2007. Thus, the situation has got tense,” Leahu said.
Later on, the JCC has managed to settle the conflict, ruling the removal of the police posts from the concerned zone. “A post of peacekeepers has been installed there, and it will work until 18 January, afterwards, we will decide”, Leahu added.
Moldovan Reintegration Minister Vasile Sova said that he “will not comment on this incident, because its settlement is within the JCC’s remit”.
UKRAINE BEGINS ENERGY TRANSIT FROM MOLDOVAN POWER STATION TO RUSSIA
Chisinau, January 15 ( INFOTAG ). At midnight Central European Time on 11-12 January, the state foreign economic business Ukrinterenerho began to carry out transit of electricity generated by the Moldovan power station through the Ukrainian grid to the Russian grid.
As Infotag reports with reference to a press release by the Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Ministry, on 11 January Ukrinterenergo agreed with the national energy company Ukrenergo (the operator of the Ukrainian grid) and the state enterprise Enerhorynok (operator of Ukraine’s wholesale electricity market) a schedule for transmission at the level of 180 MW in January.
According to a contract signed with the closed joint stock company Inter RAO EES (Russian Federation), Ukrinterenergo will ensure transmission from the Dniester grid to the Russian grid at the level of up to 200 -800 MW monthly.
Electricity from the Moldovan power station will be delivered to Russia on a substitution scheme: the electricity generated at the Moldovan power station will be consumed in southern districts of Odessa Region (Ukraine), while similar volumes of electricity will be transferred from the eastern part of the Ukrainian grid to the Russian grid.
The contract between Ukrinterenergo and Inter RAO EES on transit of electricity generated by the Moldovan power station through Ukraine to the Russian grid was signed on 26 September 2006. RAO EES owns the Moldovan power station, which is the biggest power station in Dniester. It has installed capacity of 2,500 MW.
According to unconfirmed information, Moldova will receive 0.25 bani per 1 kWh of energy transit. For the time being the energy is directly delivered to Ukraine. If the Moldovan power transmission lines are used for this purpose, Moldelectrica will receive 3.93 bani for their use.
MOLDPRES
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posted: 15 January 2007
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