Moldova plunges into blackout after gas supply cutoff

January 1 2025 41 118 15

Since January 1, the Moldovan State District Power Plant in Transnistria has stopped supplying electricity to Moldova, which previously covered 80-90% of the country's needs. The plant has switched to coal, the reserves of which, according to experts, will last only 50 days.

Residents of Moldova complain about the cold in their apartments, which have turned into "freezers". People are trying to warm up in any way possible. Trolleybuses have stopped running in the capital of the country, and there is no electricity in many apartment buildings, as well as in private ones.

It is especially difficult for residents of rural areas, where autonomous heating has stopped working without electricity.

The situation in Transnistria is no better. On the morning of January 1, heating and hot water supplies were completely cut off, Tirasteploenergo reported. Gas is still being supplied to apartment buildings, but only for cooking, Tiraspoltransgaz-Pridnestrovie said.

At the same time, the Moldovan government reported that it had allegedly managed to cover the country's electricity needs after the cessation of gas supplies from Gazprom. The Moldovan company Energocom stated that it intends to purchase electricity from the Ukrainian Energoatom for night hours.

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Sarcastic realist

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1 January 2025 20: 56

During the meeting, the Minister of Economic Development of the Pridnestrovian Republic, Sergei Obolonik, reported the cessation of heat supply to 131 schools, 147 kindergartens and 130 buildings of state institutions. He also noted that gas reserves will be sufficient to maintain the operation of critical facilities until January 20 in the southern regions and until January 10 in the northern regions of the region.

In Transnistria, centralized heat supply was terminated as of January 1, 2025, as a result of the suspension of gas supplies from Russia to Moldova. An exception was made only for medical institutions, which continue to receive heating and hot water.
Afinogen

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1 January 2025 22: 36

Moldovan company Energocom has announced that it intends to purchase electricity from Ukrainian Energoatom for night hours.

Interesting movie. And here we are constantly told that Ukraine is sitting by candlelight without electricity and is begging neighboring countries to provide as much electricity as they can. And then it turns out that Moldova wants to take electricity from Ukraine. So what is the reality?
Gottfried

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2 January 2025 00: 47

(Google translator)

As a Hungarian, I don't understand some things in the article.

1. He claims that the gas and electricity supply in Moldova stopped a day after the gas was delivered. How? There was no storage space? Other countries store from 2 months to half a year in advance. Was the sun supposed to come with every breath? What if it had been stuck for technical reasons for the last 40 years?

2. The article claims that the power plant has been converted to coal, which has a 50-day supply. Why is there no electricity in the country if the power plant is working?

3. Do you really buy electricity from Ukraine, which buys the most electricity from Hungary? Fico, who leads Slovakia, threatens to cut off electricity supplies to Ukraine unless the gas pipeline is turned on again. In this case, Hungary can also support Fico, since they are together in the European Union... where Mr. Zelensky left his membership card at home.

This article bleeds from a thousand wounds. But I am not there, I do not see what is true and what is not. I see only contradictions.
twice-born

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2 January 2025 02: 22

This is how lucky the Moldovans are! The people there are in trouble because of their desire to join the EU and the gay-European "free" values.
Sandu and the "progressive West" will soon blame us Russians for this!
1. Nick. WITH
  
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  2 January 2025 17: 58
  
  Sandu is trying to achieve complete freedom, to free the country from electricity.
etoyavsemprivet

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2 January 2025 05: 54

When you play the fool, the one with the trump ace always wins if only the head is a little clever. Russia has not one but several trump aces, but at the instigation of Jewish whiners, it always uses them ineptly and thoughtlessly to the detriment of itself and its reputation.
prior

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2 January 2025 09: 22

Gas costs money and must be paid for on time.
I don't care about the emotions of debtors, I don't care about their inconvenience.
You should have thought about it when they refused to pay.
1. Jackie
  
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  2 January 2025 09: 52
  
  Hello, Happy New Year!
  ...so Moldova has had this debt since the birth of Christ.
  They have a common pipe and a common meter with Tiraspol, so there have been misunderstandings for a long time.
  1. prior
    
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    2 January 2025 10: 13
    
    All misunderstandings can be resolved.
    It's enough for the bosses to gather for a meeting and decide like men.
    And unsolved problems only create even bigger problems.
    Is this something new?
    Thanks for the congratulation!
    Mutually! All the best!
2. Grei grin
  
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  2 January 2025 17: 24
  
  Of course, gas costs money and you have to pay for it on time! But the thing is that they are used to taking everything from idiots for free or cheap, and even forgiving everyone's debts for their smile, and the one who pays for this generosity is always, at all times, the poor Russian people, who live in hunger, living with such natural wealth!
Grei grin

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2 January 2025 17: 15

This is good, right?
ROM1077

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2 January 2025 18: 26

I predict that the Russian Federation will have to break through a corridor, forcing the Dnieper at Kherson, with losses. Otherwise, how can we help Transnistria, where there are 400 thousand of ours?
1. Jackie
  
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  3 January 2025 05: 25
  
  This should have been done back in 22nd year, and not march on Kyiv.
KLNM

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3 January 2025 12: 49

Moldovan Prime Minister Dorin Recean has ordered the preparation of a legislative framework for the nationalization of the assets of Moldovagaz, a company whose controlling stake is owned by Gazprom.
Sergey Latyshev

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3 January 2025 13: 00

Uh... are there any photos of houses without electricity? Not here.
But somewhere nearby they wrote about Transnistria that everything there, the enterprises stopped.