Moldovagaz will propose to ANRE to reduce the natural gas tariff for consumers by 10% and plans to submit this request on January 26.
Moldovagaz Board Chairman Vadim Ceban told reporters about this. "On January 26, we intend to submit a request to the National Energy Regulatory Agency (ANRE). Preliminarily, we plan to reduce the average tariff for gas supply by about 10%," Vadim Ceban said. According to the member of the Supervisory Board of Moldovagaz, Sergiu Tofilat, there are prerequisites for the reduction of the gas tariff in Moldova, as the purchase price of gas is decreasing, and, besides, in spring, Moldovan consumers should finish paying the financial deviations accumulated before Moldovagaz in 2021-2022. Today, in the calculation of the gas tariff, which was approved in June 2023, the average annual purchase price of gas is $750 per 1 thousand cubic meters. Earlier, the head of Moldovagaz Vadim Ceban said that prerequisites for reducing the tariff for natural gas in Moldova for consumers may appear in early 2024, if the average annual gas price will be $550 per 1 thousand cubic meters or less. Currently, the tariff for household consumers is 18.07 lei per cubic meter, but during the heating season, from November 2023 until the end of March 2024, the population receives compensation through invoices, and the preferential tariff varies from 12 to 17 lei per cubic meter, depending on the degree of energy vulnerability. // 18.01.2024 - InfoMarket.
