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

06.16.2012

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

06.07.2012

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

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

05.28.2012

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

05.22.2012

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

05.02.2012

Enel Green Power International, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, Wednesday said it has obtained a EUR180 credit line from Dutch Export Credit Agency to finance wind projects in Romania, the USA and more

04.30.2012

Renewable energy generators are headed for their best year ever on the local market, because the amounts collected in first three months of 2012, under the support scheme provided by the Romanian more

04.23.2012

Schneider Electric Romania, subsidiary of French Schneider Electric, on Monday said it is ready to deliver charging stations for electric vehicles and expects Renault Romania to launch its electric more

02.28.2012

Romania’s national power grid can absorb at most 2,000 MW from wind farms, half of the estimations put forth by system operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO), a senior banker with the European Bank for more

01.31.2012

Producers of energy from renewable sources, such as wind, sun and water, last year collected over EUR95 million from green certificates received for the electricity delivered into the system. Green more

01.17.2012

Renewable energy will soon have to stop relying on government support, since companies investing on this segment are “spoiled” with state aid, Tuesday said Valentin Mircea, vice-president of the 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

A series of investors in renewable energy decided to give up EU funding to finance their projects, and chose the green certificate support scheme, which gives them higher profit and frees up EU funds more

10.21.2011

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, Thursday said it has completed the construction of a 70 MW wind farm in Tulcea, southern Romania, increasing its total installed capacity in the 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

10.17.2011

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

10.13.2011

After Dobrogea was invaded by investors who developed or planned to develop wind farm projects (the installed capacity of wind farms in the region nears that of a reactor at the nuclear plant in more

10.12.2011

Romania's Government on Wednesday approved the ordinance providing state aid through green certificates for renewable energy production, after repeated complaints about delays from business more

10.04.2011

Romanian government has not yet approved the subsidies for renewable energy producers because it fears the impact on the electricity bills will be too high, the Wind Power Association AREE said more

09.07.2011

Romania’s government is bound to approve an ordinance amending the renewable energy law in September, with the new regulations likely to come into force by the end of the month, the energy regulator more

08.04.2011

Romanian consumers are likely to pay by up to 3% or 4% more for electricity once the updated scheme to support renewable energy producers comes into force, CEZ Romania said Thursday. more

07.28.2011

Romanian consumers are bound to pay 1.3 billion lei (EUR306 million) this year to support the country’s renewable energy scheme, according to estimations of the energy watchdog ANRE. more

07.15.2011

The amount of wind energy produced in the first six months of this year was double the amount of 2010 as a whole. Producers of green energy therefore gained more in the first six months of 2011 than more

07.13.2011

The European Commission approved Romania’s legislation supporting investment in renewable energy through green certificate incentives, norms launched in 2008, saying it complies with EU state aid more