05.28.2014

Romania has become the 16th most important country for Vestas, Europe’s biggest wind turbine producer, after the Danish company installed another 140 windmills locally in 2013. more

04.03.2014

EDP Renovaveis, the renewable power unit of Energias de Portugal group, completed green power projects worth EUR250 million in Romania last year, according to ZF estimates. more

04.02.2014

Lukerg Renew, a joint venture between Russia's Lukoil and Italian energy group ERG, will borrow EUR67 million to finance a 70-megawatt wind farm in eastern Romania, ERG said in a statement Wednesday. more

04.01.2014

Czech-held utilities group CEZ is likely to renounce a minority stake in Fantanele-Cogealac (Constanta) wind farm, a project in which it invested EUR1.1 billion, but which now has no green more

03.06.2014

LUKERG Renew, a joint venture of Russia’s oil group Lukoil and Italy’s renewable energy company ERG Renew, will complete a 84 MW wind farm in Tulcea County (SE Romania) in a month, following more

03.04.2014

Erste Group and Banca Comerciala Romana will provide EUR76 million funds for the construction of the 108 MW wind farm Crucea North, in the Dobrogea region on the Romanian Black Sea coast, while EBRD more

02.05.2014

Romania ranks fifth among the 28 member countries of the European Union in terms of the size of wind farms installed last year. However, investments completed in 2013 are 25% smaller year-on-year. more

02.04.2014

The number of companies in the renewable energy generation sector increased 18 times in 2009-2013 to 559 companies operating wind farms, solar parks or hydropower plants, which receive subsidies from more

01.12.2014

Investments in wind farms and solar parks could reach EUR3 billion this year after the EUR6 billion invested in Romania in 2009-2013, ZF has calculated based on the information provided by energy more

12.20.2013

Romanian state-owned electricity distributor Electrica said it is reconsidering its plan to build two wind parks, as the two projects are expected to engulf EUR100 million following the government’s more

12.05.2013

Chinese company Goldwind International Limited, a division of Xinjian Goldwind Science & Technology Co., announced it would supply 50 megawatts of wind turbines to the Mireasa wind farm in Romania’s more

11.06.2013

Spain’s Iberdrola will no longer invest in wind power in Romania and will stick to the 80 MW it has out of the 1,200 MW previously planned. more

10.15.2013

U.S. corporation General Electric (GE) has finished installing wind turbines for a 50-megawatt wind farm project developed by electricity and gas distributor GDF Suez Energy Romania, a unit of more

10.01.2013

About one fifth of Romania’s electricity output was being covered by windpower Tuesday afternoon as strong winds knocked down trees and shut down the country’s ports at the Black Sea. more

09.27.2013

Wind energy has been one of the few sectors to record a major boom in the years of crisis after the crash of Lehman Brothers in 2008. more

09.20.2013

Foreign developers of renewable energy products came up with almost EUR60 million for the companies they own in Romania this summer, ZF has found by looking at Trade Registry data. more

08.19.2013

Metallurgical industry electrodes maker Elsid SA based in Titu, southern Romania, has started to develop a 24MW wind farm in Corbu, on the Black Sea Coast. more

08.15.2013

Vestas, Europe’s largest wind turbine maker, posted EUR132 million revenue in Romania last year and a net profit of EUR37,000, according to its first filing with the Finance Ministry. The Danish more

08.14.2013

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing a loan for the construction, commissioning and operation of a 108 MW wind farm operating 36 wind turbines in the Dobrogea more

07.30.2013

Photovoltaic parks operated at higher capacity than wind farms at certain hours in the first part of Monday, the hottest day of the year so far, even though the installed capacity of the latter is more

07.21.2013

French group Filasa announced Sunday it will continue its EUR780 million investment in building 12 wind power parks in Suceava county, northern Romania, despite delays in the project. more

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

07.08.2013

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is considering providing a EUR59 million loan to Spanish firm Inveravante Inversiones Universales to build a 54-megawatt wind farm in Galati, 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