The Republic of Moldova needs new technologies to help integrate more renewable energy into the national grid, including smart electricity meters, electric cars capable not only to charge their batteries from the socket, but also to deliver energy to a household when prices are higher on the market, sources of storage of excess green energy produced, energy efficiency technologies. This is the message from energy minister Victor Parlicov to potential investors in Japan.

In a few years, once the three energy interconnection projects with Romania - Isaccea-Vulcănești-Chisinau, Suceava-Balti and Iasi-Strășeni-Chisinau - are completed, Moldova will be able to export locally produced electricity. At the moment, limited consumption, tightly linked to domestic consumption, does not allow the installation of larger renewable energy capacities, said the Energy Minister at the meeting with the Japanese Ambassador to the Republic of Moldova, Yoichiro Yamada.

The head of Japan's diplomatic mission inquired about how our country has prepared for the winter, as well as about the increase of electricity generation capacities located on the right bank of the Dniester, in the context that a Japanese company has shown its willingness to invest in this sector in Moldova.

The creation of the electricity market with the arrival of the Romanian operator OPCOM in the Republic of Moldova and its coupling with the European market in the near future will also be another asset, Minister Parlicov argued. The proximity to the European and Ukrainian markets also opens up new economic prospects. That is why potential investors should not see the Moldovan market as separate, was another message of the energy minister.