OREANDA-NEWS. November 11, 2009. As it was informed in ANRE, it is 0,9% less than within nine months of 2008. The largest amount of electricity - 1 billion 990.48 million kWh was purchased by RED Union Fenosa, and the smallest - 237.29 million kWh –by RED Nord - Vest. Moldova purchases electricity from the Moldavian HES located in Transnistria and owned by the Russian company "Inter RAO ES".

As the Prime Minister of Moldova Vladimir Filat has announced before, own generating capacity of Moldova (excluding Transnistria) accounts for only 25-30% of the total volume of electricity necessary.

According to him, the Moldovan authorities are interested in enhancing national energy security, construction and modernization of the existing generating capacities, diversification of sources of energy supply. He noted that Moldova proposes the CIS countries to launch joint projects in the energy field, to increase energy production in Moldova and expand its supplies to Balkans.