OREANDA-NEWS. September 30, 2011. The Head of the Moldovagaz, Alexandr Gusev, said it has to do with the National Agency for Regulation of Energy (ANRE) denying taking into account the enterprise’s investments in development of gas network between villages, when calculating the new tariffs.

Alexandr Gusev stressed that if these investments had been taken into account, it would have increased the gas fee by just 5-10 leis, but would carry on prospects for further implementation of the gasification program.

According to him, about 800 villages of the country haven’t been supplied with gas yet. Moldovagaz’s Head said that since the ANRE doesn’t want to include the company’s investment in construction of inter-village gas pipelines in the tariff, the enterprise’s investment program for 2012 and next years would not stipulate such construction, and Moldovagaz will confine itself to just development of the gas distributing networks inside villages.

At the same time, ANRE director, Victor Parlicov, said the Agency does not include these investments in the tariff as it believes that all costs should be economically expedient. According to him, many villages to which a gas pipeline was laid on, later refused building of inner-village gas distributing networks because of the insufficient demand for gasification from consumers.

For his part, Alexandr Gusev stressed that none of the villages to which a gas pipeline was laid on by the Moldovagaz at its own expense, refused gas and there are its consumers.