07.17.2013

Forty-two major wind projects, which have attracted investments of almost EUR3.3 billion, were operational or in the final testing stage at the beginning of this month. They have a total capacity of 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

06.05.2013

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

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

04.10.2013

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

03.12.2013

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, has invested EUR251 million in its Romanian wind energy network in 2012, the company said in its financial report Tuesday. more

03.12.2013

After three years and over EUR3 billion investments in 2,000 MW of wind energy, Romania is polluting more than it did before the 800 turbines were put in place. more

02.11.2013

Romania ranked fifth in the European Union in terms of newly-installed wind power in 2012, with 923 new MW, following investments of around EUR1.5 billion. more

02.08.2013

A Chinese investor is making a bet of around EUR100 million to build the largest solar park in Romania, while other Chinese companies want to invest in wind turbine manufacturing. more

01.18.2013

A foreign manager says what the Economy minister should have said: Romania stands to gain too little from the green energy boom because most equipment is not built locally. more

12.28.2012

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, has connected to the grid three new wind farms located in southeastern Romania, with a total capacity of 206 megawatts, the company said in a press more

12.18.2012

Lukerg Renew, a joint venture between Russia's Lukoil and Italian energy group ERG, has acquired an 84MW wind project in Romania from Italian renewable developer Inergia, Windpower Monthly reported more

12.07.2012

A number of 21 large wind farms were either operating or undergoing testing in Romania at the beginning of December, following investments of over EUR2.5 billion, according to the latest data released more

10.10.2012

Romania will boast the largest onshore wind farm in Europe at the end of 2012, after Czech-based CEZ has announced it would finish works on its EUR1 billion investment in Fantanele and Cogealac near more

10.10.2012

The wind power, a business consultants and investors have made millions of euros from in recent years is about to slow down abruptly and the outcome looks much like what happened in real estate, said more

08.15.2012

Romania is the country where the renewable energy division of Energias de Portugal (EDP), one of the major European energy groups, recorded the highest growths in the last year, with the Portuguese more

07.27.2012

Vestas, the world's leading manufacturer of wind turbines, with almost EUR6 billion in revenue in 2011, has installed EUR550 million worth of wind turbines in Romania over the last two years, ZF has more

06.22.2012

Environmental protection and construction equipment manufacturer Comelf, controlled by the Uzinsider Bucuresti group, in 2009 started making small parts for wind power farms, an industry that was just 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

06.13.2012

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

Romania had fifteen wind farms worth more than EUR1.7 billion operational at the beginning of June. Four of the fifteen farms, whose total capacity stands at about 1,165 MW, more than a Cernavoda more

05.25.2012

Green power producers collected from the support scheme put in place by the Romanian government almost EUR100 million in the first four months of the year, as much as they did last year. Eighty more

05.15.2012

The Muntmarks were among the first people to set their eyes on the wind power three years before Romania became a EU member and now one in two turbines in service are part of a farm they developed. more