Energetic Dictionary

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Auxiliary services of electric power supply provided to the customers and third parties by the supplier at tariffs calculated in accordance with the Methodology for estimation of costs, estimation, approval and revision of prices for auxiliary services rendered by the electric power distribution enterprises.

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Municipal enterprise that manages housing resources, municipal enterprise of communal services, co-operative society of house construction, association of condominium co-owners, association of owners of privatised dwellings, other economic agents, which own or manage housing resources.

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Consumer who uses electric power to cultivate plants and raise livestock. Also, agricultural consumers are the irrigation installations, the technological machine stations, enterprises for repair of agricultural equipment, forestry, fish-farming, apiculture enterprises, veterinary laboratories, plant and animal protection stations , etc.

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Any natural or legal person who submitted an application to obtain an approval for the connection and/or conclusion of the electric power supply contract.

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A natural person who received the authorization to manage, execute and check the works performed on the electric installations and to prepare the documentation related to these works.

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Period in which, because of the breakdown of some electric power installations and equipment or because of the lack of balance between production and consumption of the electric power and energy, the functional parameters of the electric power system cannot be maintained within the admissible limits.

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Consumer who uses electric power to sell agricultural and industrial products and to provide services to the population and economic agents.

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Set of equipment, a component of the user installation, intended to compensate the reactive power.

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Provision of a permanent electric coupling between the customer’s installation and the electric power network.

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Natural or legal person, who uses the electric power by connecting its user installation to the electric network at one or more points of supply (delimitation).

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Electric power, agreed by the parties at the conclusion of an electric power supply contract, which the customer is entitled to consume from the electric network. The contracted power is determined as: a) the nominal power of the power station (transformer); b) result of multiplication of the voltage (U) and the admissible charge (Iadm) of the conductor, cable or the result of multiplication of the voltage and the nominal current of the commutation device, by selecting the minimal value.

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Termination of the connection between the electric network and the consumer’s installation through the commutation device or through decoupling of conductors or cables from the network.

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Legal person, holding a license for distribution of electric power. The distribution unit can be simultaneously the electric power supplier.

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Natural or legal person who holds and uses, on the basis of a contract of location, a dwelling in a block of flats or a hostel, for a purpose other than that of dwellings that belong to the owner.

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A network for the distribution or transportation of the electric power.

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A system made of high, medium and low voltage lines and transformation and commutation equipment, as well as additional installations, which ensure, on the whole, the distribution and supply of the electric power up to the point of delimitation.

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Holder of license for the transportation, distribution or supply of electric power.

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Consumer of electric power who has the right to choose its supplier, also from abroad, and to conclude a direct contract with this supplier for the supply of the necessary electric power, having access to the electric power transport and/or distribution network.

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Increase in the capacity of the existing distribution network or construction of new networks or segments of distribution network to satisfy the demand for electric power of the applicants from the new or the existing localities, neighbourhoods, or districts.

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Unforeseeable and insurmountable events as interpreted by the Chamber of Industry and Trade.

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Theft of electric power from the electric network by means of: - interference in the operation of the measuring equipment, through different methods, with or without its deterioration and with or without misuse of its seals; - unauthorized connection to the electric network or connection by avoidance of the measuring equipment; - unauthorized change in the scheme for connection of the measuring equipment, which leads to the incomplete registration of the amount of electricity used.

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Consumer who has its own house, apartment or a hostel room and uses electric power only for household needs.

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Consumer who uses electric power for the manufacture of industrial and agricultural products, extraction and processing of raw material, processing of products, execution of other works and provision of other related services. Also, industrial consumers are construction sites, enterprises of production, transport and distribution of various types of energy, pump stations, rail, motor, river, air and other transport.

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A system made of conductors, cables, commutation devices and other installations that ensure the distribution of the electric power to the dwelling from the terminals and up to the commutation equipment installed in each flat of a block of flats.

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Consumer with a contracted power exceeding 100 kW.

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Conditions in which the forced reduction of the electric power used by consumers is imposed to certain limits in order to maintain the admissible parameters of operation of the electrical energy system.

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A natural person, who received a dwelling for rent on the basis of a rental contract, signed with the administrator of housing resources for a limited or unlimited period and for money, in accordance with the valid laws and regulations.

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Method of calculation of electric power quantity consumed depending on the power of the electric receivers and the number of hours of use by the type of electric receiver or on the contracted power and the hours of its use.

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A set of equipments or systems, which serve for the measurement of the power and the record of quality of electric power supplied to the consumer, used for billing.

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Procedures for calculation of expenses that are not included in the tariff for electric power, supported by the electric power distribution stations to provide auxiliary services.

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Power strictly necessary for the consumer to maintain the technical means, which ensure the safety of equipment and of the personnel.

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The minimum power necessary for a consumer to maintain the equipment and installations, which are required to function according to the technological process, in order to avoid some irrecoverable production losses.

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Seal counterfeiting, removal of seal, deterioration or any other action with the genuine seal which leads towards the shift of seal on its wire; or removal of the seal wire.

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A permanent public administration authority with a status of legal entity , which regulates the economic and commercial activities carried out in the electric power sector.

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Legislative acts, normative-technical and normative-economic documents, rules, statutes, standards in force in the territory of the Republic of Moldova.

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Written notice according to the Agency’s model, issued by the distribution unit to the applicant, which stipulates the optimal technical conditions and the obligatory works that have to be executed by the applicant, to connect its user installation to the electric network of the distribution unit.

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Written communication, according to the Agency’s model, sent by the supplier to the consumer, which warns the consumer about a possible disconnection of his/her user installation from the electric power network.

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Oral communication by the distribution unit or the supplier to the consumer (by phone or personally) about an unannounced suspension of electric power supply or other faults of the electric network, which lead to the deterioration of quality of electric power supplied to the consumer or jeopardize the normal operation of the electric energy equipment.

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Natural or legal person or a group of persons who hold, use and have at their disposal a property (a flat in a block of flats, a room in a hostel, a non-habitable room or an undivided property in a block of flats) in accordance with the provisions of the legislation in force.

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Expenses for the installation, devices, conductors, etc., as well as for the necessary works for the connection of electric installations of the applicant to the electric network of the distribution unit.

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Expenses borne by the supplier for the reconnection of the consumer’s installation to the electric network.

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Written communication to the supplier by a consumer or a group of consumers, which expresses a demand, complaint or a claim that refers to the activity of the supplier, infringement by the supplier of the contractual terms, violation of the consumer’s rights (etc.)

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Location of the consumer’s installations, including those of its sub-consumers, where the electric power received through one or more points of supply (delimitation) is consumed.

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Temporary suspension of the electric power supply without the disconnection of the consumer’s installations from the electric network, given the need to perform some maintenance and/or repair works planned by the distribution unit with a prior notification of consumers.

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A place where the electric installations of the consumer are connected to the electric distribution network and where the assets of the consumer and those of the distribution unit or of the supplier are delimited by property rights.

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The highest power with at least 30 minutes duration of continuous registration, which the consumer may use from the electric network in the rush hours of the charge curve of the distribution network, as agreed between the parties upon the conclusion of the electric power supply contract.

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Corridors, staircase, lift, loggias of the block of flats, halls, basements, technical floors, shared kitchens, laundries and drying rooms, meeting halls, etc., where the electric power is consumed to satisfy the common needs of all the dwellers of the block of flats.

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A building, a basement and other auxiliary rooms, which are shared by the dwellers of the block of flats.

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Consumer with a contracted power not exceeding 100 kW.

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Consumer classified as a state organization/ institution (school, kindergarten, military unit, penitentiary, etc. ) financed from the state or local budget that uses electric power for its own needs.

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Natural or legal person whose electric installations are connected to the electric installations of a consumer with whom he/she signed an electric power supply contract.

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Legal person holding a license for the supply of electric power.

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Electric installation which is used to make the connection between the electric network and the user installation that belongs to the consumer.

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Temporary suspension of electric power supply contract at the consumer’s request or at the supplier’s initiative.

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Temporary suspension of electric power supply to consumers without disconnection of user installations from the electric network.

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Termination of electric power supply to the consumption point, during the period specified in the request for suspension of contract, submitted by the consumer.

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Provisional installation arranged for the use of electric power during a period of time, which does not exceed one year.

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Termination of the electric power supply contract, at customer’s request or on supplier’s initiative.

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Consumers of electric power who do not belong to the groups of household, industrial, agricultural, commercial or state consumers.

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Set of installations, equipment and networks of the consumers designed for the use of electric power and located downward of the delimiting point.

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Temporary suspension of the electric power supply to the consumers, due to an accident in the electric network, without the disconnection of the consumer’s installation from the electric network .

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Sudden reduction of the voltage lower than 90% of the nominal value, followed by the return of the voltage to its initial value after a short period of time, in accordance with GOST-13109