Companies from Moldova to benefit from compensations for electric energy

Chisinau, 10 January /MOLDPRES/ - Deputy Prime Minister, Economic Development and Digitalization Minister Dumitru Alaiba today informed about  the launch of a programme on the compensation of the costs for electric energy, designed  for the companies from Moldova, meant so support the native producers and back the competitiveness. The programme provides for the fact that the state will compensate for the entrepreneurs up to 50 per cent of the increase in tariff for electric energy for a period from three to six months. The assistance will be directed especially to the companies from Moldova which produce essential food products.      
„Just as Prime Minister Recean has said, we come up with a programme of compensations of the costs for electric energy, which will support our companies, our producers easier cope with the current challenges. This is a direct support, which will be meant especially for the more sensitive sectors, in order to back their competitiveness. The firms which produce in our country essential products, food products: milk, meat, eggs, bread, etc., will have priority,’’ Deputy PM, Economic Development and Digitalization Minister Dumitru Alaiba said.      
The official stressed that the support would be extended also to other sectors from the processing industry, such as the producers of footwear, clothes, furniture, electric components, etc.  
The programme sees that the state will compensate up to 50 per cent of the increase of the tariff for electric energy for a period from three to six months, depending on the financial resources available. The authorities estimate that about 10,000 companies are potentially eligible for these compensations.   
„In these times full of challenges, our support is more important than ever. We, the government, must assume an active role in the protection of the citizens and the economy. Together, we will prove solidarity and resilience before the external crises triggered by those who do not want good to our people, entrepreneurs, economy, our country. It is not for the first time when Russia uses energy resources as an instrument of blackmail and pressure in its attempt of destabilization, discouraging, demoralization of our people. It is for the first time when Moldova is subjected to economic pressures on behalf of Kremlin, in an attempt to make us deviate from the road we have chosen. We saw also in the past embargoes, blackmail and threats, for years in a row. We always found solutions, we adapted; we became stronger and more united, more convinced by the fact that the way we have chosen is the correct one. The things will be like this time as well. The difficulties did not divide us, but united us; they taught us to look for solutions, to work, to adapt, to become stronger,’’ Dumitru Alaiba said.       
The economy minister noted that the support would be directed where there is greatest need and namely to the companies for which the invoice for electricity represents a significant share in the production costs.  The compensation will be enforced starting from the first day of the tariffs’ increase. ‘’We will announce, on the next days, a detailed regulation, eventually approved through decisions of the Commission for Emergency Situation (CSE),’’ Dumitru Alaiba said.  
At the same time Deputy PM Dumitru Alaiba urged the entrepreneurs to invest in the energy efficiency of all production processes, in more advanced equipment, which consumes less and give higher productivity, thermal insulation and renewable energy sources.    
PM Dorin Recean last week asked for the preparation of additional measures on backing the citizens and the business environment, in the context of the adjusting of the tariffs for electric energy.