National Bureau of Statistics of the Republic of Moldova

Industry and Energy Statistics Division

106 Grenoble Str., MD-2019 Chisinau, Republic of Moldova

European statistics on electricity prices for household and final non-household customers.

Internal Eurostat classification system based on annual electricity consumption bands and tax levels.

Household sector and final non-household sector (industry and construction).

The prices are reported in national currencies per kWh and according to different bands of consumption.

For the household sector, these bands are:

• DA: customers consuming less than 1000 kWh.
• DB: customers consuming 1000 kWh or more but less than 2500 kWh.
• DC: customers consuming 2500 kWh or more but less than 5000 kWh.
• DD: customers consuming 5000 kWh or more but less than 15000 kWh.
• DE: customers consuming 15000 kWh or more.

For the final non-household sector, the bands are:

• IA: customers consuming less than 20 MWh.
• IB: customers consuming 20 MWh or more but less than 500 MWh.
• IC: customers consuming 500 MWh or more but less than 2000 MWh.
• ID: customers consuming 2000 MWh or more but less than 20000 MWh.
• IE: customers consuming 20000 MWh or more but less than 70000 MWh.
• IF: customers consuming 70000 MWh or more but less than 150000 MWh.
• IG: customers consuming 150000 MWh or more.

There exist 2 different levels of disagregation for semestrial and annual prices:

1- Semestrial prices:

These prices are reported twice a year and are divided in 3 levels:

• Level 1 prices: prices excluding taxes and levies.
• Level 2 prices: prices excluding VAT and other recoverable taxes and levies.
• Level 3 prices: prices including all taxes and levies.

2- Annual prices:

These prices are reported once a year together with the data for the second semester and are divided into the following components and taxes:

• Energy and supply: generation, aggregation, balancing energy, supplied energy costs, customer services, after-sales management and other supply costs.
• Network cost: transmission and distribution tariffs, transmission and distribution losses, network costs, after-sale service costs, system service costs, and meter rental and metering costs.
• Value added taxes (VAT): as defined in Council Directive 2006/112/EC.
• Renewable taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the promotion of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and CHP generation.
• Capacity taxes: Taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to capacity payments, energy security and generation adequacy; taxes on coal industry restructuring; taxes on electricity distribution; stranded costs and levies on financing energy regulatory authorities or market and system operators.
• Environmental taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to air quality and for other environmental purposes; taxes on emissions of CO₂ or other greenhouse gases. This component includes the excise duties.
• Nuclear taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges relating to the nuclear sector, including nuclear decommissioning, inspections and fees for nuclear installations.
• All other taxes: taxes, fees, levies or charges not covered by any of the previous five categories: support for district heating; local or regional fiscal charges; island compensation; concession fees relating to licences and fees for the occupation of land and public or private property by networks or other devices.

Household and final non-household consumers divided into consumption bands.

Household customers: Data coming from 2 suppliers out of 2 and representing 100% of the household customers.

Final non-household customers: Data coming from 4 suppliers out of 4 and representing 100% of the final non-household customers.

National territory of the Republic of Moldova excluding the left part of the River Nistru and Bender municipality.

Electricity prices data for Moldova are available since 2015.

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Prices are reported in national currency per kWh. However, Eurostat also calculates and publishes the prices in EURO and PPS (purchasing power parity).
Relative shares of sub-component of the network component and consumption volumes are reported in percentages.

For semestrial prices, the reference periods are from January to June for semester 1 and from July to December for semester 2.

For annual prices, the reference period is the whole calendar year (from January to December).

At EU level:

• Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices and repealing Directive 2008/92/EC (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/2169 of 21 November 2017 concerning the format and arrangements for the transmission of European Statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2019/803 concerning the content of quality reports on European statistics on natural gas and electricity prices pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2016/1952 of the European Parliament and of the Council (Text with EEA relevance).

At national level:

• Law on Official Statistics (no. 93 of 26 May 2017)
• Methodology - https://statistica.gov.md/public/files/Metadate/alte/Metodologie_energetica.pdf - only in Romanian.

At EU level:

• Eurostat does not share the data collected with other organisation appart from its usual dissemination chanel (Eurostat's database, statistic explained articles and press or news release) .

At national level:

• Data is sent to eurostat.
• Data are published on NBS official page under Statistics by theme / Economic Statistics / Energy statistics

At EU level:

• Regulation (EC) No 223/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 11 March 2009, on the transmission of data subject to statistical confidentiality to the Statistical Office of the European Communities.

At national level:

• Law on Official Statistics (no. 93 of 26 May 2017) art. 19 and art. 20

Published data should not allow identification of single consumers.

According to art. 19 of the Law on Official Statistics No. 93 dated 26.05.2017, producers of official statistics shall take all regulatory, administrative, technical and organizational measures to protect confidential data and prevent their disclosure.

Chapter VII of the above-mentioned law stipulates that the data collected, processed and stored for the production of statistical information are confidential if they allow the direct or indirect identification of the respondents. ) The following shall not be considered confidential:

a) data that can be obtained from publicly accessible sources according to the legislation;

b) individual data on address, telephone, name, type of activity, number of employees of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs;

c) data referring to public enterprises, institutions and organizations funded from the budget, submitted at the request of the public administration authorities.

According to the Law on Official Statistics, art. 20, access to confidential information is granted to the persons who, according to their official functions, participate in the production of statistical information shall have access to individual data in so far as individual data are necessary for producing this information.

The same article stipulates that the access to individual data, which do not allow the direct identification of respondents, may be given for scientific survey projects, whose expected results do not refer to identifiable individual units, under the regulation approved by the central statistical authority.

Art. 23 (5) of the Law stipulates that the the statistical information cannot be disseminated to users if it refers to 1-3 statistical units.

According to the Program of statistical work, data for semester 1 (period January to June) are available in August and data for semester 2 (period July to December) are available in February next year.

The program of statistical work may be accessed on the web page http://www.statistica.gov.md/, under About NBS / Legislative and normative acts (https://statistica.gov.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=323&)

The program of statistical work may be accessed on the web page http://www.statistica.gov.md/, under About NBS / Legislative and normative acts (https://statistica.gov.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=323&)

Electricity prices in Moldova are published on a semestrial basis on Eurostat's website.

Electricity prices in Moldova are published on NBS official page under Statistics by theme / Economic Statistics / Energy statistics

Currently, the Press release/ Analytical Notes on electricity prices are not compiled.

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Electricity prices in Moldova are published on NBS official page under Statistics by theme / Economic Statistics / Energy statistics

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Methodology - https://statistica.gov.md/public/files/Metadate/alte/Metodologie_energetica.pdf - only in Romanian.

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Global Assessment of the National Statistical System of the Republic of Moldova - https://statistica.gov.md/public/files/despre/evaluare_opinii/externe/GA_Moldova_Final_Report_2019.pdf

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Information is included in the sub-concepts S.13.3.1-S.13.3.5.

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Electricity providers that participate in the national data collection are requested to provide the electricity price data within 25 days after the reference period. After arrival, the statistical office checks the micro-data for correctness, consistency and completeness and national averages are calculated and reported to Eurostat during the third month after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2019 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2019 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2020 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2020 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 1st semester of 2021 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

The first version of the electricity price questionnaire for non-households for the 2nd semester of 2021 was sent 40 days after the reference period.

Data are final when disseminated for the first time.

The legal deadline for submitting the questionnaires is the third month after the reference period.

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The information is developed and disseminated without the data of the enterprises and organizations from the left part of the River Nistru and Bender municipality. 

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Comparability over the time is ensured.

No interruptions of time series

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Annual prices are coherent with the semestrial prices.

At the moment we don't know the summary costs for production of statistical data.

No revision policy adopted.

Data are final when disseminated for the first time. 

Household electricty prices collection: 0.000201728

Non-household electricity prices collection: 0

Data are collected based on the semestrial statistical survey according to the statistical report 1-PEE “Electricity prices”. 

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The data are collected on paper acording to the statistical report 1-PEE “Electricity prices” - https://statistica.gov.md/pageview.php?l=ro&idc=635&id=7202 

Given the fact that Republic of Moldova is a small country and only 4 entities are researched, the data are validated in Excel. 

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Seasonable adjustments are not carried out.