The gas transportation company Tiraspoltransgaz-Transnistria published a message today, January 1, in the morning about turning off gas until 12:00 in boiler houses, private sectors and apartment buildings with autonomous heating.
In addition, the Tirasteploenergo company reported that in Transnistria, from 7.00 am, due to the termination of gas supplies, the supply of heat and hot water to residential buildings was stopped. The exception was hospitals and social institutions. The Moldovan publication NewsMaker writes about this with reference to the companies’ statements.
It is noted that Tiraspoltransgaz-Transnistria clarified that in apartment buildings gas will remain available only for cooking. This will be possible due to reserves in the gas pipeline system, but only until the pressure in the network drops to a critical level.
Local residents called on be sure to close the gas taps and not try to restore the gas supply on their own.
Today at 7.00, as planned, Ukraine officially stopped the transportation of Russian gas through the gas transportation system.
December 31 was the last day when Gazprom could book gas for Moldova on a daily basis through the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline (passes through Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and part of the Odessa region of Ukraine).
Since the end of 2022, all Russian gas has been supplied to Transnistria. Right-bank Moldova used gas purchased on the European market. Therefore, all the gas with a volume of 5.7 million cubic meters per day was used for the internal needs of the unrecognized Transnistria, as well as to generate electricity at the Moldavian State District Power Plant located there for the entire territory of Moldova.
Gazprom announced on December 28 that it would stop gas supplies to Moldova because Moldovagaz “regularly fails to fulfill its payment obligations under the current contract, which is a significant violation of its terms.”
On December 16, a state of emergency in the energy sector was introduced in Moldova. On December 31, the country’s Ministry of Energy reported that in January 2025, Moldova will import most of its electricity from neighboring Romania, and 30% will be provided by local thermal power plants.
The Transnistrian authorities also introduced a state of emergency. It was assumed that after the gas supply was cut off on January 1, heating would be turned off in cities, and gas would remain only for cooking. Gas reserves are expected to last for 20 days. From January 1, Moldavskaya GRES will switch to coal-fired electricity generation.
Source: NewsMaker
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