2 apr 2013

In the first quarter of the year major fuel distributors boosted pump prices, although estimates made by oil companies at the beginning of 2013 showed that consumption was expected to stay flat at more

29 mar 2013

An investor in a solar PV project who now gets six green certificates per megawatt/hour of power generated might get only four as of this summer, and the get the rest after mid 2016, according to a more

27 mar 2013

“Prispa”, the house that can produce more energy than it consumes, owned by a family in Bacau county (NE Romania), has obtained the permit to join the energy grid, issued by Germany’s E.ON, the more

26 mar 2013

Shale gas can revolutionize the global energy market and coal-based electricity has again taken precedence over gas-fired power stations, says Eveline Steinberger-Kern, head of the energy division more

22 mar 2013

Major state-run energy producer Hidroelectrica has moved from monthly losses of EUR50 million to a profit of EUR10 million last month, shows a report on the company’s financial performance published more

20 mar 2013

U.S. oil group Chevron said that if Romania wants to start shale gas drilling, now is the time to do it because exploration work alone takes five years. No European country is currently producing more

15 mar 2013

Romania could save between EUR4.8 billion and EUR7.4 billion by improving energy efficiency until 2020. more

15 mar 2013

Grup Servicii Petroliere, an offshore drilling company part of the Upetrom group of businessman Gabriel Comanescu, is bidding in what could be the tender of the year to get a contract with ExxonMobil more

14 mar 2013

Grup Servicii Petroliere, part of Upetrom group owned by businessman Gabriel Comanescu, won a new contract with Gazprom, the world’s largest natural gas producer, for oil exploration in the frozen more

13 mar 2013

Italian group Enel, which has become the largest private energy distributor in Romania following privatizations, reached investments of over EUR650 million in wind farms on the Romanian market, with more

12 mar 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

11 mar 2013

Romania should focus its energy strategy on smaller, yet more flexible projects that require lower investments, instead of large energy projects, such as reactors 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda nuclear more

5 mar 2013

The economy could benefit from the renewable energy boom if investors were rewarded based on the amount of components they buy from the local market for their projects, says George Catalin Costache, more

22 feb 2013

Dacia, the largest carmaker in Romania and one of the best-known Romanian brands abroad, has decided to become a producer of solar energy through a solar panel project which is set to be installed on more

22 feb 2013

OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) may have posted its highest net profit ever and may be focusing on oil, gas and power production but the one of its refineries among the largest in the country, Arpechim, is close more

18 feb 2013

State-run energy company Complexul Energetic Oltenia, which was created last summer by the merger of major thermal power stations in Oltenia (S Romania) with the coal mines managed by Societatea more

11 feb 2013

RCS&RDS, one of the largest local telecoms, bought another company in the electricity generation business after acquiring two companies developing solar PV projects in Braila county for EUR20 million more

7 feb 2013

Romenergo, a company that has been active for over 35 years in the energy sector, says as the country has become de-industrialized, companies that used to have a rich activity on foreign markets have more

6 feb 2013

Adrem Invest, a Romanian-held company specializing in industrial equipment, says state support for Romanian companies in major international auctions can be key to developing the local industry. more

28 ian 2013

Renewable energy producers in Romania collected more than EUR310 million in green certificates in 2012, through the government support scheme, which is three times more than they got in 2010. more

25 ian 2013

Enel, E.ON, CEZ and Electrica will pay a lower amount according to the final version of the tax on monopoly they have on Romanian energy distribution networks than ZF calculated based on the initial more

24 ian 2013

Investors in green power, an industry that witnessed a boom over the last three years, are getting increasingly worried because of the rumors about the modification of the support scheme for the more

18 ian 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

9 ian 2013

The last three months of 2012 were very intense for the bilateral contracts platform of energy exchange OPCOM, with 190 out of the year’s 254 transactions sealed in the period. more

6 ian 2013

Constanta, Tulcea, Galati, Caras-Severin and Braila are Romania’s top counties when it comes to installed capacity of green power projects. The five counties have attracted more than EUR2.5 billion more