Chisinau, 14 November 2008. Today, as part of the visit of V.V. Putin, Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, to the Republic of Moldova, OJSC INTER RAO UES and the Moldavian state-owned enterprise Moldelectrica signed the Agreement on implementation of the project for separation of power generating units of Moldavskaya GRES for radial operation with the energy grid of Romania.

The Agreement regulates technical requirements for supply of electric power to Romania from the power plant owned by the Russian energy company.

Cross-border supplies from Moldavskaya GRES to Romania are limited due to the fact that the Moldavian and Romanian energy grids are located in different synchronous zones. For this reason, it was decided to apply the process scheme, in which one or several power generating units of the power plant are separated from the Moldavian energy grid and connected to the energy grid of the Republic of Romania. Within the project, it is planned to use the 400 kV power transmission line Moldavskaya GRES –Vulkaneshty and Vulkaneshty – Isakcha (Romania).

Implementation of this scheme will allow an essential increase in supplies to Romania to the amount of about 400 MW or 290 million kWh per month.