05.01.2012

Dobrogea could become Romania’s new energy hub, as the battle for a spot in south-eastern Romania is fought with higher budgets than the entire energy market’s worth, combined with the latest more

04.20.2012

South-eastern Romania is full to the brim with wind power projects, some of them already functional and some in various stages of approval, with wind farm investors now targeting Moldavia, as shows a more

03.27.2012

For the first time in over two years since people started talking about the wind power boom, the windmills made their presence felt in 2011, generating 2% of the total energy produced in Romania, more

03.08.2012

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, plans to add another 180 MW to its Romanian wind energy network in 2012, taking its installed capacity to around 450 MW, general manager Francesco more

02.13.2012

Romania has become the seventh largest country in the European Union and leader in the region in terms of wind farm investments made last year. more

02.10.2012

Wind farms have been disconnected from the system, distributors have suffered millions of euros in damages and 50,000 residents in small towns have been left in the dark. more

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

01.18.2012

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

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

12.05.2011

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

11.15.2011

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

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

10.04.2011

Cristian Secosan, general manager of Siemens Romania, says 2011 brought a significant increase in orders, so despite all uncertainties that put economic growth to the test this year, the German more

08.23.2011

The ten largest wind energy projects now operating in Romania have a total installed capacity of over 700 MW, matching that of a nuclear reactor at the Cernavoda power station. Investments in these more

08.09.2011

Galati county has become the star of the year in terms of the number of wind energy projects that have won network connection contracts. Vaslui, Botosani and Suceava also caught the interest of wind more

08.05.2011

Over 20 years, Cluj-based EnergoBit built a group with turnover of over EUR100 million, which has ended up competing on an equal footing with all major international companies on the energy equipment more

08.04.2011

CEZ Romania, a unit of Czech power group CEZ AS, expects wind power output will triple to around 0.9 TWh in 2011, as more turbines are scheduled to start production in the next period. more

08.02.2011

National grid company Transelectrica (TEL.RO) says it has slowed down the process of signing contracts that allow “windmills” to connect to the grid because of the very high volume of requests. more

07.25.2011

Electrica, the largest state-owned energy supply and distribution company, which will also become an energy producer next year, says it had to revise its investment plans for a wind power farm twice 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

06.15.2011

Romania’s installed wind power capacity might reach 1,000 MW by the end of the year, double the level seen in December 2010, despite investor walkouts based on “the legislative chaos”, wind more

05.03.2011

Enel Green Power, the renewable energy unit of Italian utility Enel, Tuesday said it has started works on its third wind farm in Romania, a 70-MW project in the southeastern county of Tulcea. more