06.19.2012

Romania’s energy independence will be reduced and imports will reach 40%-50% of total consumption in 2030, due to higher demand for primary energy and the natural decline of the local hydrocarbon more

06.18.2012

The aid granted by Romania to support the production of renewable energy is too generous and will lead to overcapacity, which will affect the stability of the country’s energy system, according to a more

06.18.2012

Private investment into energy production is in deadlock in Romania because reforms in this sector ceased in 2004 and the Government does not consider energy an essential infrastructure component, more

06.16.2012

Renewable energy producers received nearly EUR750,000 each day over the past month, and the value of subsidies granted to companies generating power by using wind, sunlight or water resources amounted more

06.14.2012

Romanian energy producers will be compelled to trade all available electricity on a competitive market, according to the country’s new energy Law adopted Thursday. more

06.14.2012

Romania’s Chamber of Deputies on Thursday adopted with 186 to three votes and seven abstentions an energy bill which deregulates the local energy market. more

06.13.2012

The Romanian Senate on Wednesday adopted with 81 to one vote and one abstention a bill amending the energy law, whereby the country’s energy regulator ANRE is placed under the control of the more

06.13.2012

Wind energy is no longer just a trend, because on May 13, wind turbines covered more of the national consumption of energy than the Cernavoda nuclear power plant. At the time, though, the nuclear more

06.08.2012

The Romanian government has pledged to continue a key privatization program in the energy sector agreed with the International Monetary Fund by selling majority stakes in four new power companies in more

06.07.2012

Dan Iulius Plaveti has been recalled as president of Romania's National Energy Regulations Authority, by order of Prime Minister Victor Ponta, and replaced with Niculae Havrilet, former head of the more

06.07.2012

The ICCO group and US company Lockheed Martin on Thursday launched Romania's first private Smart Grid project, in the ICCO Ghimbav Industrial Park in Brasov county, with an investment of $15 million more

06.04.2012

Tinmar-Ind, an energy trader controlled by businessman Augustin Oancea, almost doubled its revenue last year, to more than EUR324 million. more

05.30.2012

GDF Suez Energy Romania, a unit of French-Belgian utility GDF Suez, Wednesday said its sales rose 9% to 3.86 billion lei (EUR910.8 million) in 2011, from RON3.54 billion a year earlier. more

05.29.2012

The short deadlines set for the deregulation of electricity prices in Romania are not credible and authorities have all the necessary means to delay the process, Stefan Botezatu, managing partner with more

05.29.2012

Investments in renewable energies are founded on the need to ensure durable development, given that current sources are exhaustible, but the players in this field face a series of obstacles, Ion more

05.29.2012

Romanian Economy Ministry Daniel Chitoiu signed Tuesday two non-reimbursable financing contracts targeting to build a hydroelectricity plant in Arges county, southern Romania, and a cogeneration unit more

05.28.2012

Romania's Government will give national railway administrator CFR a loan to pay its arrears to the private energy suppliers and will issue an ordinance whereby CFR will pay only the principal on its more

05.28.2012

Romania remains one of the top destinations in the world for renewable energy projects, according to a report from Ernst & Young. more

05.25.2012

Romania’s Competition Council plans to make public in June a preliminary report on its inquiry into the local electricity market launched two years ago, antitrust watchdog president Bogdan Chiritoiu more

05.22.2012

Romania’s energy watchdog ANRE will rethink in June the aid scheme for investments in photovoltaic power projects, and might propose a reduction of the number of green certificates granted for solar more

05.21.2012

Romanian Economy Ministry has awarded a 66 million lei (EUR14.8 million) financing to the local unit of French utility GDF Suez for upgrade works at the Bucharest natural gas network, the ministry more

05.18.2012

Romania will maintain its current royalty rates for oil and gas companies unchanged until 2015, Economy Minister Daniel Chitoiu said Friday. more

05.18.2012

President Traian Basescu said Friday that any of the alternative energy supply projects in the Balkan region is a win for Romania, whether it is Nabucco, the South East Europe Pipeline or the Southern more

05.13.2012

Solar energy was credited by many specialists as being the next energy boom after wind turbines had conquered almost the whole of Dobrogea (SE Romania). more

05.11.2012

The start of the year came with different signals from the main sectors of Romania's economy, so a clear trend cannot be outlined for the first quarter of the year, according to data released so far. more