12.27.2013

Customers are now making car purchases based on price, as well as on emissions level, since the new taxes they have to pay depend on how much pollution a particular vehicle generates, says Cristian more

12.19.2013

The Romanian Photovoltaic Industry Association, or RPIA, Thursday said the government’s decision to reduce the number of green certificates granted to solar power producers is illegal and abusive. more

12.18.2013

The modification of the clean energy support scheme as of January 1, 2014 will only affect those power generation facilities starting operation on or after that date, Romania’s energy market more

12.05.2013

Green Glass, part of Green Group, will invest EUR2 million next year in expanding its glass recycling plant in Popesti-Leordeni, just outside Bucharest, which cost EUR4 million to set up. more

12.03.2013

Company Green Glass, part of Green Group, will open a glass recycling plant in southern Romania Thursday, following an investment worth EUR4 million. more

12.03.2013

Renewable energy sector has been one of the biggest challenges of 2013 for the business law firms as the scheme rewarding investments via green certificates was amended for the worse and investors had more

12.02.2013

The European Investment Bank will provide a credit line worth EUR200 million to Italy’s Enel Green Power International BV for wind energy investment in Romania, Enel said in a statement Monday. more

11.28.2013

Romania will reach in January 2014 its target quota for renewable energy consumption, six years earlier than the 2020 term agreed with the European Union, the country’s energy watchdog ANRE said more

11.25.2013

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, Monday said its 10-megawatt Podari photovoltaic plant in southwest Romania has been connected to the country’s power grid. more

11.18.2013

Romania’s government should lower its support for renewable energy or it will hinder the local energy industry’s competitiveness on a European and global level, the Association of Large Industrial more

10.30.2013

Romania made nearly EUR100 million from selling some 21.5 million green certificates since January, Environment Minister Rovana Plumb said Wednesday. more

10.28.2013

Green power producers and especially owners of wind and solar farms already have EUR45 million to recover for the three months since the government changed its support scheme. They will get the money more

10.22.2013

Waste recycling group Green Group estimates it will have an unconsolidated turnover of EUR140 million this year, 16.6% more than in 2012, while its profit margin stabilized at 10%. more

10.17.2013

Oil giant Saras, a business of around EUR12 billion chaired by Massimo Moratti, says it has suspended the authorization process for a EUR200 million wind project it planned to build in Constanta, more

10.07.2013

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, Monday said its 6.5 megawatts Colibasi photovoltaic plant in southeast Romania has been connected to the country’s power grid. more

09.30.2013

Investments in photovoltaic parks in Romania were 3.5 times lower in July compared with the previous month after Romanian authorities changed an aid scheme supporting green power producers. more

09.27.2013

Wind energy has been one of the few sectors to record a major boom in the years of crisis after the crash of Lehman Brothers in 2008. more

09.23.2013

Victorio-Alexandru Piturca is investing between EUR1.3 and EUR1.5 million in a photovoltaic park in Olt county (southern Romania), which is due to be completed in nearly a month. more

09.20.2013

Foreign developers of renewable energy products came up with almost EUR60 million for the companies they own in Romania this summer, ZF has found by looking at Trade Registry data. more

09.05.2013

The temporary reduction of state support for renewable energy producers starting July 1 is showing its first effects and the sum investors will have to recover for July reaches about EUR14 million. more

09.04.2013

Romanian realty developer Iulius Group, owned by businessman Iulian Dascalu, is carrying out the certification process for its four Iulius shopping malls, real estate consultancy firm Colliers more

08.22.2013

EDP Renovaveis, the renewable energy division of Energias de Portugal, one of the biggest investors in green energy in Romania, continues the development of wind and solar parks and currently has more

07.31.2013

More than EUR1 billion were invested in wind and solar farms in the first half of the year, and EUR288 million were paid as subsidies to producers. Renewable energy accounted for 12% of total more

07.19.2013

The share of green certificates in end-consumers’ electricity bills will decrease by 33.3% to RON0.034/KWh, following the energy regulator ANRE’s decision Friday to lower the annual certificate more

07.15.2013

Enel Green Power (EGP), part of Italian utilities group Enel, has connected to the grid its first two photovoltaic parks in Romania, which have a total installed capacity of about 19 megawatts. more