General objective of the project: Increase the security of the takeover of electricity produced from renewable resources by reducing the number of interruptions, decreasing the amount of undelivered electricity and reducing the maintenance costs of E.ON Distribution Romania’s electricity distribution network. The realisation of the investment proposed in this project, as a result of which 3 transformation stations with a high degree of importance for the energy system in the region of Moldova will be modernised, contributes to the achievement of specific objective 6.1 Increasing the production of energy from less exploited renewable resources (biomass, biogas, geothermal) – the distribution sector of the Large Infrastructure Operational Programme. The contribution of the project to the achievement of the specific objective of the Programme is justified by: a) The project contributes to increasing the consumption of electricity from renewable resources by carrying out works to modernise three power transformer stations, thus ensuring the optimal technical conditions for the takeover, transformation and distribution of electricity produced from renewable sources. At the three stations that will be upgraded there are currently 4 production parks belonging to 3 producers of electricity from renewable sources with installed power between 5 and 10 MW, namely wind energy (one of the three producers financed its investment through AP4, POS CCE 2007-2013) which, from the date of commissioning to date, have discharged important quantities of electricity produced from renewable sources into the system. Due to the fact that the power required for the station’s consumption is much lower than the approved and discharged power of the manufacturers, a large part of the energy produced and introduced into the 20 kV bars of the station is converted at 110 kV voltage and transported through 110 kV lines to SEN. The proposed project thus contributes to the achievement of the objective assumed by Romania in the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy-24 % final energy consumption from renewable resources. b) The project contributes to increasing the continuity and security of electricity supply in the North-East Development Region by carrying out modernisation and integration works in SCADA system of 3 transformer stations in Iasi county. The effects of modernisation and integration in SCADA of the 3 identified transformation stations will be able to be quantified by: — 97 % reduction of SAIFI (due to wear) due to the modernisation works of 110 KV and medium voltage cells through which will be eliminated the refusals to actuate switches to upgraded cells, respectively the refusals to actuate secondary circuits in all cells; — 96 % reduction of SAIDI (cause of wear) due to the SCADA system that facilitates the real-time transmission of information taken from the transformer and intervention stations to the dispatcher