The government will hold a new meeting on Thursday, and the main issue on the agenda will be the adoption of the government’s resolution on making changes to the basic elements for compensating energy prices, Prime Minister Nikolay Chuke announced on Wednesday.

• “As I directed today, I will get the winter plan from the Department of Energy, and of course tomorrow at the inter-ministerial committee we will have the elements of the analysis and of course the conclusions of the analysis on the whole process by which we will amend the Emergency Resolution by which we we will compensate for the prices of energy carriers,” the Prime Minister said at the beginning of the Government meeting on Wednesday.

Virgil Popescu on gas reserves: we are close to 73%

Energy Minister Virgil Popescu said that the winter action plan had already been completed and would be sent to the chancellery, and the prime minister announced that the plan would be adopted by the General Council next week.

Referring to the changes that will be made on Thursday to the emergency decree on energy prices, Energy Minister Virgil Popescu said that together with the Ministry of Finance and ANRE, they are going to finalize “the issue of this tax on the entire electrical chain of energy production and sales”, and the final form will be presented tomorrow in the inter-ministerial committee.

Virgil Popescu also touched on the issue of natural gas reserves.

• “We have approached 73%, we have more than 2.280 billion cubic meters in storage. If I’m not mistaken, the figure we assumed and which we have to report to the European Commission tomorrow, September 1, was 57%. Therefore, we accelerated the pace of gas storage in warehouses with the calculation that we would reach the plan of at least 80% fullness of warehouses,” said the Minister of Energy.