Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study

The principal strategic challenges that the electricity sector in Moldova faces are to increase the security of electricity supply by diversifying sources, and to provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy services. To some extent this co...

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Main Author: Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
Format: Report
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2021
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spelling okr-10986-362992021-09-28T05:10:33Z Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study Energy Sector Management Assistance Program ELECTRICITY DEMAND TRANSMISSION GRID ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM ENERGY MARKET The principal strategic challenges that the electricity sector in Moldova faces are to increase the security of electricity supply by diversifying sources, and to provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy services. To some extent this could be achieved by increasing and/or rehabilitating local generation capacity where economically justified. In addition, establishing an effective interconnection with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) would enable the import of competitively priced power from the Energy Community (EnC) and would help overcome Moldova’s electricity sector challenges. Although Moldova joined the EnC in 2010 after having implemented major and successful sector reforms, its electric power system is physically still part of the former Soviet Union’s Integrated Power System/United Power System (IPS/UPS) and is effectively not interconnected with the EU/EnC’s Internal Energy Market (IEM). This sector Study provides guidance to the government on significantly improving Moldova’s security of energy supply via interconnection with ENTSO-E and therefore with the EU/EnC’s internal energy market. The study consists of two main parts: (i) electric power system planning; and (ii) power market design, plus associated annexes. 2021-09-27T13:51:30Z 2021-09-27T13:51:30Z 2015-06-11 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/195111631903776975/Moldova-electric-power-market-options-sector-study http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36299 English CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Moldova
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topic ELECTRICITY DEMAND
TRANSMISSION GRID
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM
ENERGY MARKET
spellingShingle ELECTRICITY DEMAND
TRANSMISSION GRID
ACCESS TO ELECTRICITY
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM
ENERGY MARKET
Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
geographic_facet Europe and Central Asia
Moldova
description The principal strategic challenges that the electricity sector in Moldova faces are to increase the security of electricity supply by diversifying sources, and to provide affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy services. To some extent this could be achieved by increasing and/or rehabilitating local generation capacity where economically justified. In addition, establishing an effective interconnection with the European Network of Transmission System Operators for Electricity (ENTSO-E) would enable the import of competitively priced power from the Energy Community (EnC) and would help overcome Moldova’s electricity sector challenges. Although Moldova joined the EnC in 2010 after having implemented major and successful sector reforms, its electric power system is physically still part of the former Soviet Union’s Integrated Power System/United Power System (IPS/UPS) and is effectively not interconnected with the EU/EnC’s Internal Energy Market (IEM). This sector Study provides guidance to the government on significantly improving Moldova’s security of energy supply via interconnection with ENTSO-E and therefore with the EU/EnC’s internal energy market. The study consists of two main parts: (i) electric power system planning; and (ii) power market design, plus associated annexes.
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author Energy Sector Management Assistance Program
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title Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
title_short Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
title_full Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
title_fullStr Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
title_full_unstemmed Moldova Electric Power Market Options : Sector Study
title_sort moldova electric power market options : sector study
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2021
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/undefined/195111631903776975/Moldova-electric-power-market-options-sector-study
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