The Ministry of Energy has already issued invitations to potential investors ahead of Moldova’s second RES auction, positioned as an onshore wind tender with a defined storage requirement. The tender targets up to 170 MW of supported onshore wind capacity and links it to battery storage sized at a minimum of 0.25 MWh for each 1 MW of supported wind capacity, installed under market conditions.
To align bidders on process, documentation, and implementation constraints, the Ministry convenes a Bidders Conference on 29 January 2026, running 08:30–16:00 in a hybrid format at Urban Business Centre (UBC) in Chișinău. The agenda is structured as a practical, business-to-business working session: it starts with the policy frame and the tender overview, moves into a step-by-step walkthrough of bid documentation and evaluation mechanics, and then shifts into the topics that typically decide execution risk and bankability—grid access, balancing and BESS market participation, the contractual structure of the support instrument, and cybersecurity expectations for critical infrastructure.
The morning begins with registration and welcome coffee (08:30–09:00), followed by opening remarks and the objectives of the day (09:00–09:30). Speakers listed for the opening include Dorin Junghietu, Minister of Energy, and Giuseppe Grimaldi, Head of the EBRD Moldova Office, alongside the Energy Community Secretariat. From an investor perspective, this segment is where the government signals how it frames the auction: what it expects the market to deliver, and which issues it wants clarified early rather than during bid submission.
The policy and market context comes next (09:30–09:45), with Carolina Novac, Secretary of State at the Ministry of Energy, presenting Moldova’s renewable energy targets and the objectives behind the tender. The conference then moves into “Tender at a glance” (09:45–10:00), covering key parameters, the outline of the support scheme, the timeline with core deadlines, and the publication and consultation path for tender documents. The agenda names Andreas Gunst (DLA Piper) as the speaker for this segment.
The core of the conference is a structured walkthrough of the tender documentation, designed to help bidders map requirements to evidence and avoid technical disqualification. The agenda breaks this walkthrough into four connected blocks. It starts with admissibility criteria, including the documents required for a valid bid submission, consortium and conflict-of-interest information, rules on multiple bids and partial support, and a prior approval requirement tied to the Council for the examination of investments of importance for state security. It then moves into qualification criteria for technical bids, including site and project-specific qualification requirements. The next step is a “roadmap” of supporting documentation, spanning grid connection, land eligibility, and environmental protection requirements. The final block covers financial bid evaluation and the pathway to large eligible producer status, including tie-breaker and marginal bid rules, bid security, the status and options for qualified investors who are not selected as winners, performance guarantees, and the Government Decision and resulting obligations for successful bidders.
The agenda lists a set of speakers for this documentation and evaluation segment, including Aygul Adamson, Paula Corban-Pelin and Sorin Dolea (DLA Piper), Ion Iordachi (Public Services Agency), and Vakhtang Kvekvetsia (NERA), followed by a Q&A moderated by the Ministry of Energy from 11:30 to 12:00. A networking lunch is scheduled for 12:00–13:00.
The afternoon agenda turns explicitly to operating model and compliance, which is where investors usually pressure-test assumptions on dispatchability, revenue stacking, and lender requirements. The program includes a session on balancing services and BESS market access, covering eligible balancing products, metering and dispatch readiness, and aggregation options for BESS assets. The same block references grid integration and grid access, the CfD mechanism through the contractual outline of the regulated Electricity Purchase Agreement (CAEE)/CfD, and a dedicated segment on cybersecurity and critical infrastructure protection framed around what investors should expect under cybersecurity law. Speakers listed for these system and compliance sessions include Octavian Ciobîrca (Moldelectrica), Dionisie Ceban (ANRE), and Diana Gotmaniuc (Cybersecurity Agency).
Two market panels anchor the final third of the day. Panel 1, “Delivering clean energy projects in Moldova” (14:00–14:30), focuses on delivery constraints that tend to dictate schedule and cost, including supply-chain issues, logistics, permitting, and inter-institutional coordination, and it also covers battery technologies and storage solutions through the lens of market readiness for utility-scale BESS and technology selection. The agenda names Victor Serdiuc (State Roads Administration) and Nicu Boruz (Oversizzed Permit International Services) among the speakers for this panel, followed by a Q&A session (14:30–14:45). Panel 2, “Financing clean energy in Moldova” (14:45–15:15), addresses financing, guarantees, bankability, risk mitigation, and commercial considerations for storage, with Alexandru Cosovan (EBRD) listed as a speaker.
The day closes with a concluding Q&A and closing remarks (15:15–15:30), moderated by Alexandru Sandulescu, EU High Level Adviser on Energy, followed by coffee and networking until 16:00.
For bidders, the agenda makes the conference’s intent easy to read: it is not a generic “information day”, but a working format that links policy objectives to bid compliance, then to grid and market integration, and finally to execution and finance.
Investors planning to participate are expected to confirm attendance and, where possible, submit questions in advance, so answers can be handled in a structured way during the Q&A sessions.
