Consequences of the energy crisis

Gas supplies to Pridnestrovie resumed three weeks ago and the republic began to return to normal life. However, our country will still be eliminating the consequences of the energy crisis for a long time. The PMR President Vadim Krasnoselsky spoke in his Telegram channel about how heat supply, gas supply and energy organizations worked during the crisis and what losses they suffered.

Heating workers eliminated more than 2.5 thousand emergency situations on main and intra-quarter heating networks during the energy crisis. "Tirasteploenergo" eliminated 1970 breaks, spending 1.1 million rubles on unscheduled work. Another 3.5 million are expenses related to the salaries of specialists. 624 thousand rubles were spent on launching mobile boiler houses for social institutions and installing equipment to convert them to diesel fuel.

Thermal power engineers encountered serious difficulties in Bendery. There were 584 breaks, and more than a million rubles were spent to eliminate it. Another 500 thousand went to the construction of 320 meters of a temporary heating network for Bendery medical institutions.

The President said that more than 11 million rubles were allocated from the Reserve Fund for the purchase of solid fuel boilers, generators, electrical appliances, as well as for moving wards of round-the-clock social institutions to heated buildings.

The President paid special attention to the situation in the Pridnestrovian economy. Vadim Krasnoselsky noted that its basis is the manufacturing complex. The share of industry in GDP is about 30%. Enterprises employ 20% of the population employed in the economy, providing 40% of tax revenues. It was necessary with the onset of the new year to suspend the activities of about four dozen industrial enterprises, including industrial giants: the Moldovan Metallurgical Plant, Tirotex, and the Rybnitsa Cement Plant. Some production facilities were transferred to night work, while most were forced to close.

The PMR President cited detailed figures in his Telegram channel:

– Moldovan Metallurgical Plant: 1588 out of 2172 employees were on downtime, 146 on vacation, 13 quit;

– Rybnitsa Cement Plant: 209 out of 644 employees were downtime, 89 on vacation, 4 quit;

– Tirotex Factory: 1840 out of 2068 specialists were downtime;

– Moldavizolit Plant: 365 out of 412 plant workers were downtime, 43 on vacation, 5 quit;

– JSC Odema: 192 out of 220 employees in January were idle, 6 left the enterprise.

Foreign trade turnover (excluding energy) in January of this year is 37.6% lower than the 2024 figure. Imports fell by 24%, while exports fell by 60%. Exports fell in almost all areas: chemical products (91.3%), textiles (83%), metals (82.5%), clothing (48.8%), food products (40.1%), and footwear (34.15).

Revenues from the provision of paid services have been significantly reduced – the state treasury lost 6.3 million rubles.

State budget losses from the single customs payment amounted to 9 million rubles relative to the planned figure. This is despite the fact that December taxes were received in January, which exceeded the collection for the same period in 2024 by 4.3 million. In February, based on the results of January work, or to be precise in the wording, the absence of activity of the majority of economic entities of the republic, the decrease in budget revenues will be approximately 40%.

The source is the official telegram channel of the PMR President