For three weeks electricity engineers hauled through a process that usually takes years. “Then was the pivotal point, in Brussels,” Moldova’s energy minister Victor Parlicov recalled in an interview in government offices in the capital Chisinau.ĮNTSO-E, the pan-European network of electricity grids, chose to warp-speed the usual procedures and allow Ukraine and Moldova to connect to the European grid. Ukraine chose not to reconnect, leaving both countries abruptly cut off, operating as an electricity island.
In a quirk of history, February 24th, 2022, was the day that Ukraine and Moldova performed a long-planned test to disconnect their electricity from the Russian and Belarusian grids, part of a gradual process of moving away from Soviet-era systems and towards synchronising with the European Union.
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