The replacement works of some high and medium voltage equipment at the Stănilești and Murgeni transformer stations have been completed. Also, the necessary conditions have been created for the integration into SCADA (control and remote data acquisition) of the two objectives that are part of the modernization project of five stations in Vaslui county, Delgaz Grid announced.
The investment of over 31 million lei is co-financed with approximately 19.4 million lei from the European Regional Development Fund (through POIM 2014-2020, Priority Axis 6: Promoting clean energy and energy efficiency in order to support an economy with low emissions carbon), as well as approximately 3.4 million lei from the national budget, the contribution of the Delgaz Grid being of over 8 million lei, including VAT.
The project, launched in 2019, runs for a period of four years and has as main objective of increasing the safety of taking over electricity produced from renewable resources by reducing the number of interruptions, reducing the amount of undelivered electricity and reducing the maintenance costs of the distribution network.
At the same time, the quality of the distribution service will be improved for the more than 40,000 customers who are fed from the stations included in the project.
Investment projects with European funds
Accessing European funding sources is a priority for the Delgaz Grid in order to achieve the objectives of modernization and digitization of the electricity distribution infrastructure. At this moment, eight projects worth about 205 million lei (about 42 million euros), with co-financing of 153 million lei (about 31 million euros), are in various stages of implementation.
Four projects involving the modernization of three transformer stations from Iași County, five transformer stations from Vaslui County, two from Botoşani County and two from Suceava County are currently in various phases of implementation in order to take over electricity produced from renewable resources.
Two other projects, aimed at modernizing the distribution network and installing 10,000 smart meters for consumers, are underway in the municipalities of Iasi and Suceava.
Also, two projects with European funding are being implemented, one of which aims to strengthen the digital skills of the staff, and the second aims at cyber security objectives.