According to the expert, for Moldova, stopping Ukrainian gas transit even for a week means an unprecedented general energy crisis.
However, on January 1, the Moldovan state company Energocom announced that Romania would provide up to 62% of the republic's electricity needs in January. Moldova will be able to generate another 28% at its own capacity, and plans to cover the remaining 10% with renewable energy sources. At the same time, the country's authorities called on local consumers to use electricity sparingly in order to avoid rolling blackouts.
As for Transnistria, the situation there after the cessation tunisia mobile database of Russian gas transit turned out to be much more difficult. According to the statement of the Minister of Economic Development of the unrecognized republic, Sergei Obolonik, made on January 8, the gas reserves in Transnistria for the daily needs of residents will last for 24 days. The official noted that the country is in a state of energy and humanitarian crisis.
As noted by Tamara Safonova, Doctor of Economics and General Director of Independent Analytical Agency of the Oil and Gas Sector LLC, by the beginning of 2025 there will be only two routes for Russian pipeline gas supplies to Europe: Blue Stream and Turkish Stream. Both of them pass through Turkey.
Despite the fact that the capacity of the Turkish Stream, which is far from fully loaded, is 31.5 billion cubic meters per year, it decreases as it moves deeper into Europe. The Balkan Stream, which is a continuation of the Turkish Stream in Bulgaria, Serbia, Croatia and Hungary, is capable of pumping only 15.8 billion cubic meters per year. Thus, as the expert noted, it will not be possible to transfer 15 billion cubic meters of gas from the Ukrainian to the Turkish direction.