05.19.2014

Complexul Energetic Oltenia, a company formed by the merger of Romania’s coal mines with coal-fired thermal power plants, is seeking to boost exports as consumption decline and renewable energy are more

05.19.2014

Romania’s six largest electricity generation companies, the state-owned Hidroelectrica, Complexul Energetic Oltenia, Nuclearelectrica, Electrocentrale Bucuresti, Complexul Energetic Hunedoara and more

04.29.2014

Romanian state-owned railway company CFR SA will buy electricity on the local regulated power exchange OPCOM, starting June 15, 2014, Transport Minister Dan Sova said Tuesday. more

04.29.2014

Electricity distribution companies such as Enel, E.ON, CEZ or Electrica currently get about a third of the average Romanian energy bill, while the production cost accounts for less than 30% of the more

04.28.2014

Romanian power grid operator Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) Monday raised 69 million lei (EUR15.2 million) at several electricity auctions on the local energy exchange OPCOM. more

04.28.2014

Complexul Energetic Oltenia’s electricity will reach Serbian and Hungarian consumers after the country’s second largest electricity generator sold 300 million lei (EUR67.4 million) worth of power more

04.10.2014

Slovenian electricity trader GEN-I says it is interested in supplying natural gas and wants to find end power consumers in Romania, after having signed one of the largest deals ever conducted on the more

04.09.2014

Technologies in the telecom industry help companies in other industries reach their clients more easily, Aurelian Sideri, director de marketing al Enel Romania, said Wednesday at the ZF Mobilio '14 more

03.20.2014

The biggest electricity consumers in Romania, aluminum smelter Alro Slatina and steel plant ArcelorMittal Galati, will have to spend 177 million lei (EUR39 million) to comply with the green power more

03.19.2014

Bucharest subway operator Metrorex will organize an open auction to purchase approximately 170,000 megawatt-hours of electricity, the company said in a statement Wednesday. more

03.19.2014

Romania's insolvent state-owned hydropower generator Hidroelectrica estimates it will produce 13.9 TWh of electricity this year, 6% less than in 2013, when it produced 14.8 TWh. more

03.14.2014

Romanian power grid operator Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) plans to sell 2.3 terawatt hours of electricity on the local energy exchange OPCOM in a bid to raise 373.77 million lei (EUR80 million). more

03.12.2014

Romanian hydropower generator Hidroelectrica on Wednesday said its electricity output rose 25.4% on the year to 14.8 terawatt-hours in 2013, covering around one quarter of the domestic production. more

03.06.2014

Romanian aluminum company Alro Slatina (ALR.RO) will prepare a plan to shut down part of its production facilities, in an attempt to reduce costs, which could result in a significant number of job more

02.28.2014

Electricity bills might increase by 0.5%-1% in April following Romania’s energy watchdog ANRE decision to hike the 2013 green certificates quota for suppliers, according to sources on the energy more

02.26.2014

Alro Slatina's electricity costs are very high and the measures targeted by the government to lower the burden for industrial consumers have produced no effects so far, company chairman Marian Nastase more

02.24.2014

Energy holding CE Oltenia, Romania’s biggest thermal power producer, is poised to generate 25% more energy this year compared to 2013, the weakest year in the company’s history. more

02.19.2014

Romanian state-run natural gas producer Romgaz Medias (SGN.RO) plans to sell around 563,000 megawatt hours of electricity on the local energy exchange OPCOM in a bid to raise 106.96 million lei (EUR24 more

01.23.2014

Romania resumed its traditional position of net electricity exporter last year, helped by the good production of hydropower and wind power, much different from 2012 when the summer drought forced the more

01.22.2014

Power producers suffered because of low prices last year, while distributors had a good 2013, so vertically integrated energy companies stood to gain in the end, according to Luca D’Agnese, chief more

01.17.2014

Romanian nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) plans to sell 1.67 million megawatt hours of electricity on the local energy exchange OPCOM in a bid to raise 285.2 million lei (EUR62.9 more

01.07.2014

Romania’s electricity consumption fell in 2013 for the second consecutive year, after several major industrial consumers either entered insolvency or scaled back operations. more

12.31.2013

Tinmar Ind, the largest private electricity trader in Romania, owned by businessman Augustin Oancea, says it has budgeted growth of 25% of its revenue to 2.13 billion lei (EUR478 million) in 2014. more

12.19.2013

The year 2013 looked like it was going to be a bumpy year right from the start. Rumors about the reduction of the green power support scheme, which attracted more than EUR4.5 billion investments in more

12.10.2013

Romania’s electricity consumption is expected to fall by around 4% in 2013, less than initially estimated, a director of state-run power grid operator Transelectrica said Tuesday. more