06.19.2013

Romania’s solar power output became noticeable in the national energy system Tuesday at noon, when 16 megawatts of solar power were fed into the grid, according to real-time statistics by power grid more

06.17.2013

An average wind farm in Romania has a capacity of 50 MW, way above the European average, due to the low population in rural areas in Dobrogea (SE Romania), the region boasting the best wind in more

06.10.2013

Verbund, the largest energy company in Austria, says it will not go ahead with investments of almost EUR100 million in expanding the wind project in Casimcea (Tulcea) if the support scheme is modified more

06.06.2013

Romanian energy output fell 6.1% on the year to 7.29 million tons of oil equivalent in the first four months, hurt by falling production in the thermal sector, official data showed Thursday. more

06.06.2013

Czech Republic’s CEZ, Italy’s Enel, Energias de Portugal and Spain’s Iberdrola are the companies with the most significant investments in green power in Romania and the first to be affected by more

06.05.2013

Amending the law on the production of renewable energy through emergency ordinance is illegal and breaches European directives, the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA) said Wednesday, warning that more

06.02.2013

Romania is the least competitive European Union country because of electricity prices and made a mistake when applying a green certificate scheme to support the production of green power which enables more

05.29.2013

Romania’s long-delayed project to build a EUR1 billion thermal power plant in the eastern county of Braila is not likely to materialize unless the government considers granting state aid to support more

05.21.2013

Romania had more than 94 megawatts installed in solar power parks by May 16, 2013 compared with 49 MW at the end of last year, according to national power grid operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO). more

05.17.2013

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has cancelled plans to provide EUR207 million funding for a EUR276 million power plant the Russian owner of aluminum smelter Alro (ALR.RO), more

05.15.2013

Economy Minister Varujan Vosganian said he supports the continuation of the nuclear power production program in Romania and the fact that planned investments in building two new reactors at the more

05.15.2013

RCS&RDS, Romania’s largest cable TV company that branched out into solar power last year, is looking for a buyer for the power generated by one of its solar PV farms. more

05.10.2013

Romanian energy output fell 7.7% on the year to 5.44 million tons of oil equivalent in the first quarter, hurt by falling production in the thermal and nuclear sectors, official data showed Friday. more

05.09.2013

China Huadian Engineering could get the permit to build a EUR1 billion coal-fired power plant near the Rovinari thermal power plant in November, and construction work could start towards the end of more

05.01.2013

Belgian real estate developer Warehouses DePauw (WDP), which owns a logistics park supplied with solar energy in Arges county (southern Romania), plans to build photovoltaic parks of over 10 MW close more

04.29.2013

Solar power producers may be forbidden to install photovoltaic panels on farmland, Romanian Minister-delegate for Energy Constantin Nita said Monday. more

04.19.2013

Enel Green Power (EGP), the renewable energy division of Italian utilities group Enel, intends to enter the Romanian solar energy sector and develop farms with a total capacity of 55 MW between 2013 more

04.17.2013

Local authorities in Suceava, northeastern Romania, will sell a five-hectare plot of land, for EUR315,000, to industrial engineering company Adrem Invest which previously leased it in view of building more

04.11.2013

Investment company Energreen Investment Europe has bought a 17 megawatt peak solar power plant in Brasov, central Romania. more

04.10.2013

The average electricity price dropped almost 40% in the first quarter of the year, and the trading price on the day-ahead (spot) market is now closer to the price in the similar period of 2009. more

04.08.2013

Investors in green energy kicked off production at facilities with a capacity of EUR350MW in the first two months of the year, following investments of around half a billion euros. more

04.05.2013

Romanian energy output fell 7.1% on the year to 3.56 million tons of oil equivalent in the first two months, hit by falling production in the thermal and nuclear power sectors, official data showed more

03.29.2013

An investor in a solar PV project who now gets six green certificates per megawatt/hour of power generated might get only four as of this summer, and the get the rest after mid 2016, according to a more

03.27.2013

“Prispa”, the house that can produce more energy than it consumes, owned by a family in Bacau county (NE Romania), has obtained the permit to join the energy grid, issued by Germany’s E.ON, the more

03.17.2013

Romania’s energy potential from geothermal sources could be evaluated at about EUR1.5 billion, based on the data on investments accomplished up to date and the most recent studies in the field. more