01.20.2012

Warm winter should be good news for wind farm builders, but this time the lack of rain and snowfall created a problem. Since very big equipment (a wind turbine is around 100-meter tall), is carried on more

01.19.2012

Romanian aluminum maker Alro Slatina (ALR.RO) Thursday said it is considering options, including operations restructuring and stopping less efficient production capacities, if it is unable to buy more

01.18.2012

US industrial giant General Electric says Romania is easily among the top five most attractive European countries for green energy investors, with the main driver continuing to be wind farms, a more

01.18.2012

Romanian oil and gas company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) Wednesday announced malfunctions at the Brazi power plant it is building, thus confirming information previously published by MEDIAFAX. more

01.18.2012

Romania is at the bottom of the European Union rankings by gross domestic product, gross domestic product per capita or average wage. These are but the most obvious of the rankings, though. It is also more

01.17.2012

The thermal power plant built by oil company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) in central Romania will most likely be launched in May, with a six-month delay, because of technical difficulties, people close to the more

01.12.2012

Statements by unionists at aluminum refinery Alro Slatina (ALR.RO) of a potential shutdown of the unit caused the company's stocks to drop almost 10% on the bourse. Management declined to comment. more

01.11.2012

Romanian power output rose 1.7% on the year to 21.47 million tons of oil equivalent in the first 11 months of 2011, fueled by higher production in most sectors, official data showed Wednesday. more

12.29.2011

Romanian state-owned electricity supplier Electrica plans to take out a loan worth up to EUR70 million, for the construction of a wind farm in eastern Romania. more

12.28.2011

Dutch-registered Vimetco, the owner of Romanian aluminium maker Alro Slatina (ALR.RO), Wednesday said it has received seven offers from companies interested in constructing a 250 MW power plant in more

12.20.2011

Romanian state-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica on Tuesday announced the completion of a hydropower plant in southern Romania, following an investment of EUR75 million. more

12.20.2011

The Romanian government will select by next spring a partner for its planned 1,000-megawatt hydropower plant in Tarnita-Lapusteti, an investment valued at over EUR1 billion, Prime Minister Emil Boc more

12.09.2011

Two shareholders of Belgium’s property developer Bel Rom Real Estate plan to build three wind farms in Romania with a total installed capacity of 150 MW. more

12.07.2011

Romanian power output rose 1.9% on the year to 19.47 million tons of oil equivalent in the first ten months, fueled by higher production in most sectors, official data showed Wednesday. more

12.05.2011

US private equity fund First Reserve and Spain’s Renovalia Energy have established a joint venture to own and operate wind projects in North America and Europe, including Romania. more

11.30.2011

Italy’s Enel, the largest private company that distributes and supplies electricity to the Romanian market, will invest over EUR100 million to implement a system of online monitoring for high and more

11.16.2011

Romanian state-run thermal power producer Rovinari Wednesday said its pretax profit more than tripled on the year to 25.5 million lei (EUR6 million) in the first nine months, boosted by a 28% increase more

11.15.2011

The Romanian government will provide over EUR10 billion through a support scheme for green energy projects, but has no certainty that this money, which will be paid through individuals’ and more

11.14.2011

Romanian state-owned electricity producer Electrica expects to obtain up to EUR210 million between 2012 and 2017 from green certificate sales. more

11.08.2011

Romanian power output rose 2.4% on the year to 17.49 million tons of oil equivalent in the first nine months, fueled by higher production in most sectors, official data showed Tuesday. more

11.03.2011

Czech utilities company CEZ, which entered Romania in 2005 when it bought Electrica Oltenia from the government and earmarked EUR1.1 billion to build Europe’s largest wind farm in Dobrogea (SE more

10.21.2011

Enel Green Power, the renewable energy division of Italian utility Enel, obtained financing of EUR112 million from the Danish government's Export Credit Agency (EKF) to invest in wind farm projects in more

10.21.2011

The support scheme granting over EUR10 billion in aid to green energy investors will enter force next week (October 24 through October 30), a moment awaited by investors in the sector for three years. more

10.19.2011

Romanian nuclear power plant operator Nuclearelectrica on Wednesday signed an agreement with China Guangdong Nuclear Power Group, allowing the Chinese company to view the literature on the more

10.17.2011

The amount of power generated by wind farms in the first nine months of the year was over ten times higher than in the corresponding period of 2010, and owners of windmills made more than EUR42 more