Kyiv-based Power-Trade Ltd., part of the largest Ukrainian private energy company DTEK, expects to start commercial supplies of Ukrainian electricity to Moldova from the second quarter of 2011, Power-Trade director Andriy Favorov has said.
"I think that this will be an issue of importance in the second quarter of next year," he told the press on Tuesday in Kyiv.
Favorov said that currently the company us continuing to hold talks with Moldova.
"Tough talks on commercial exports are underway. The number of consumers with whom we can speak in Moldova is restricted, and there are certain contract liabilities between them and the present suppliers," he said.
As reported, Power-Trade from July 2010 registers the final monthly net power flow between Ukraine and Moldovan power grids under a contract with Energocom signed on February 17, 2010.
Ukraine stopped commercial exports of electricity to Moldova from early 2009, when Energocom started replacing earlier imported electricity from Ukraine with electricity generated at a Moldovan hydro power plant.
The Fuel and Energy Ministry said that net power flow towards Moldova over the first ten months of 2010 was 19.9 million kWh (compared to 5.5 million kWh year-over-year).
