Romania provided emergency energy assistance to Ukraine in August and September of this year, which consisted of electricity supplies intended to balance tensions in the interconnected network of continental Europe, which began to fluctuate due to emergency synchronization with it in March of neighboring countries. energy systems from Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, less than a month after the start of the Russian invasion. Ukrainians asked for help after a Western country asked them to completely stop exporting energy carriers, writes Profit.ro.

″The reason for providing emergency assistance to Ukraine was that interzonal voltage fluctuations with very weak damping were detected in the “Continental Europe” association in the east-west direction, and the transport network operator (transport and system operator – no) from Spain contacted by request Ukraine, in accordance with the procedures for the emergency connection of the energy systems of Ukraine and the Republic of Moldova, to reduce the export balance to 0 MW,” says the official document analyzed by Profit.ro.

Ukrainians paid a total of more than 9.6 million lei for this energy, so the average price was about 2,580 lei/MWh.

In August and September, the average day-ahead market closing price (PZU) on the Romanian stock exchange OPCOM was 2,400 lei/MWh, respectively 1,855 lei/MWh.