12.19.2013

The year 2013 looked like it was going to be a bumpy year right from the start. Rumors about the reduction of the green power support scheme, which attracted more than EUR4.5 billion investments in more

12.10.2013

Romania’s electricity consumption is expected to fall by around 4% in 2013, less than initially estimated, a director of state-run power grid operator Transelectrica said Tuesday. more

12.10.2013

Tinmar Ind, the largest private electricity trader in Romania, posted revenues of over 1.2 billion lei (EUR270 million) in the first nine months of the year, 24% more than in the year-ago period. more

12.09.2013

Electricity supply in Romania was shut off for an average of ten hours and a half last year, almost one and a half hours more than in the previous year, and affected about 9 million consumers. more

12.02.2013

Romanian hydropower producer Hidroelectrica drew no bids at a series of auctions last week in which the company sought to sell electricity valued at 404.2 million lei (EUR91.1 million), energy more

11.19.2013

Romania’s electricity production hit 8,700 megawatts Tuesday, this year’s record high, and the country exported 1,000 MW, Minister-delegate for Energy Constantin Nita said Tuesday. more

11.07.2013

Household electricity bills will increase by 1% as of January 1, 2014, while electricity prices for industrial consumers will rise by 2%, minister-delegate for energy Constantin Nita said Thursday. more

10.31.2013

The price of electricity traded on the spot market of the OPCOM energy exchange in the first nine months reached an average of some EUR34/MWh, a 30% decline on the year-ago period. more

10.23.2013

Power distributors will ensure the electrification of households in over 2,200 remote villages and if investments have no economic justification, they will be co-financed by local authorities, 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

09.26.2013

The power price increase by almost 38% in the years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, according to Eurostat data, is hurting industrial consumers. more

09.26.2013

The five years of crisis led to an accelerated increase in utility prices, which places Romania again on the top spot in Europe in terms of price hikes, according to Eurostat data. more

09.24.2013

Romanian power companies should channel their investment into upgrading existing production facilities instead of building new ones, because the country already produces surplus electricity, an more

09.19.2013

Connecting Romania’s power grid system to other states in the region could boost energy exports, but it could also expose the local market to a massive influx of electricity, an official of the more

09.19.2013

Romanian energy watchdog ANRE Thursday said that price deregulation in the sector is going more smoothly than expected as a decline in electricity production triggered lower prices in the market. more

09.04.2013

Romanian state-run power grid operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO) estimates the country’s electricity consumption will drop at an annualized rate of around 4% in 2013-2014, the company said in a more

08.26.2013

Romanian oil and natural gas company OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) signed energy deals worth 39.4 million lei (about EUR9 million) on energy exchange OPCOM at the end of last week. The electricity is produced more

08.22.2013

Romanian state-run energy holding CE Hunedoara will invest 907 million lei (EUR203 million) to refurbish an electricity production unit and make it less polluting, according to an announcement more

08.08.2013

New taxes applied starting February this year to electricity and natural gas transporters, as well as to natural gas producers, increased budget revenues by about EUR28 million by the end of June, more

07.25.2013

Romania’s OPCOM power exchange saw more than EUR650 million worth of electricity traded in the first half, 85% more than in the same time of last year. The amount of power sold and bought was almost more

07.19.2013

The share of green certificates in end-consumers’ electricity bills will decrease by 33.3% to RON0.034/KWh, following the energy regulator ANRE’s decision Friday to lower the annual certificate more

07.18.2013

Romanian state-run natural gas producer Romgaz Medias will use the gas from its newly discovered Cojocna field to fuel two low-power electric units in the region, the company said in a statement 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

06.26.2013

Romania’s Government approved an emergency ordinance Wednesday allowing the land improvement agency ANIF to sell electricity and lease land improvement equipment to agricultural organizations, which more

06.21.2013

Electricity prices for households and nonindustrial consumers in Romania will fall by an average of 1.3% starting July 1, the country’s energy market regulator ANRE said Friday. more