Cutting consumption of energy resources in focus of Moldova's Commission for Emergency Situations

Chisinau, 25 October /MOLDPRES/ - The Commission for Emergency Situations (CSE) has intervened with new measures, in order to cut the consumption of energy resources for avoiding interruptions of electric energy supplies. According to an Instruction approved at a today’s CSE meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Natalia Gavrilita, the managers of the public buildings and commercial units will ensure the work of the heating installations in a minimal regime or at an air temperature which will not exceed +19 Celsius degrees and 15 degrees outside the working time, as far as the technical capacities allow this, the government’s communication and protocol department has reported.   

Also, the indoor illumination of buildings will be reduced by at least 30 per cent, where possible, and will be disconnected immediately as the rooms are freed. At the same time, the fountains, vitrines, decorative, architectural and advertising illumination are to be disconnected, except for the firms’ illumination during the working time. The work of escalators is to be interrupted during the time intervals 7:00-11:00 and 18:00-23:00, except for those used for the carriage of goods and loads, as well as of cases when the suspension can affect people’s security and health.

According to the CSE Instruction, the enterprises which use electric ovens and electric melting devices in the production process will organize the working schedule, so that the processes during which most electric energy is used are carried out outside the time intervals 7:00-11:00 and 18:00-23:00. During the same time intervals, the managers of the water and sewerage supply enterprises will reduce to the minimum the consumption of electric energy through regulating the regime of work of the accumulation reservoirs’ pumps.    

Measures needed for reducing the consumption of electric energy will be undertaken also by the central and local public authorities. They include the cutting of the consumption of electric energy, especially in the peak hours, replacement of incandescent lamps by LED lamps and interruption of the street illumination during the day (7:00-18:00). For their part, the managers of apartment blocks and other buildings with lifts will place, at the ground floor, an announcement, thereby recommending the avoidance of the use of the lift in the time intervals 7:00-11:00 and 18:00-23:00.  

The data on the monthly consumption of electric energy of public institutions, as compared to the previous three years, will be submitted by the providers and distributors of electric energy and published on the website www.controlezfactura.gov.md by the Infrastructure and Regional Development Ministry.    

Under the CSE Instruction, the earlier adopted derogation as to the exemption of the Termoelectrica stock company from the payment of the excise duty on crude on will be applied also to other economic agents which make imports of crude oil.    

To attenuate the shocks of increase in the interest rates on loans borrowed by small- and medium-sized enterprises, the CSE members ruled to empower the Public Institution, Organization for Entrepreneurship Development (ODA) to manage and use the financial means worth 200 million lei for the ‘’support of small- and medium-sized enterprises’’ for the compensation of the interests paid, related to the period 1 August 2022 – 31 December 2022 on the bank and/or non-bank investment loans contracted by small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in national currency, which were active on 1 August 2022. The regulation on the way of compensation of interests is to be approved under government decision. To ensure the transfer to the beneficiary SMEs, ODA will be able to use the technical possibilities of the MPay service.    

Another decision deals with the allocation of financial means worth 102.1 thousand lei from the government’s intervention fund to the General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. The expenses borne for the carriage of humanitarian assistance to Ukraine will be paid in this way.   

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