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Listed below are the procedures, time and cost required for a business to obtain an electricity connection for a newly constructed building.

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  • Name of Utility: ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A.
  • City: Chisinau

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No. Procedure Time to Complete Associated Costs
1 Submit an application for an electricity connection to ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. and await issuance of technical conditions

The application for an electricity connection is submitted in person. Currently, it is not possible to submit an online application. The following information and documents are required: Name of the company and its address; business sector; required load; level of supply reliability; nominal voltage at the connection point; certification of property rights; certification of absence of outstanding electricity bills for other properties. If the required load is above 50 kW then the utility also requires calculation of the load where it is specified for what purposes the load will be used.



Agency: ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. 		19 calendar days no charge
* 2 Await and obtain review of the location relative to the distribution grid from ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A.

ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. carries out an external inspection of the site before issuing technical conditions. In practice, a representative of the customer is present, but this is not a requirement. It is most likely that there will be only one inspection at this point. In rare cases there is a second inspection in case all the details were not figured out during the first inspection.


Agency: ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. 		1 calendar day no charge
3 Await completion of the external connection design by a private design company

Given the assumed load a project design of the external connection is required. After the technical conditions are issued the electrical design company prepares the design of the external connection and obtains from various government organizations documents certifying compliance of the project. If there is a crossing of the road during the project design stage the hired company gets the approval of the project in 1 to 10 organizations including communications, water, gas depending on what is required.

Agency: Private electrical design company 		25 calendar days MDL 12,500.0
4 Obtain an excavation permit at the Department of Transport

The hired electrical contractor before completing the excavation works obtains the permit .

Agency: Minsitry of Transportation 		5 calendar days MDL 1,100.0
5 Await completion of external works, including meter installation by an electrical contractor

Before the works can start it is required to receive a permit for turn off the power. It takes 10-20 days to receive the permit and the electricity users are notified that the power will be turned off. After the design is approved an electrical contract carries out external connection works according to the technical conditions and the design.
The electrical contractor purchases all the materials, including the meter. The materials can be purchased from any retailer. The meter has to be bought at ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. and certified by ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. The meter is installed by the electrical contractor. At the end of the external works two electrical engineers fill out documents certifying compliance with technical conditions. One of the electrical engineers is in charge of testing the installed equipment and the other one is in charge of filling out documents necessary to receive operation permit.




Agency: Private electrical installation company 		75 calendar days MDL 130,000.0
6 Obtain an operation permit from the State Energy Inspectorate

After the external connection works are finished, the electrical contractor submits documents to the State Energy Inspectorate for the inspection of works, starting from the point of connection and ending at the internal wiring. State Energy Inspectorate completes the inspection and given that the works are consistent with the technical conditions, project and technical norms issues an Act for Admittance to Operation.

Agency: State Energy Inspectorate 		11 calendar days no charge
7 Sign a supply contract and a contract assigning responsibilities for repair and maintenance of the electrical line and await final connection

The customer submits the operation permit to ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. and signs a supply contract on the same day and electricity starts flowing. On the basis of this Act ICS RED Union Fenosa SA prepares a document dividing responsibilities for maintenance of the cable, which acts as a supplement to the supply contract and prepares supply contract.



Agency: ICS RED Union Fenosa S.A. 		5 calendar days MDL 500.0
* Takes place simultaneously with another procedure.
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