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07.28.2015

Associations and employers in the renewable energy sector call on the government and the energy regulator to amend the mandatory renewable energy quota supported through the green certificate scheme more

06.18.2015

The green certificate market is collapsing, as no certificates were traded in May and June, affecting investors in renewable energy, particularly small and mid-sized producers, a local organization of more

03.25.2015

The current scheme promoting renewable energy no longer meets investors' needs and green energy producers call on regulator ANRE to come up with an alternative to the current green certificate scheme. more

06.20.2014

The Romanian state is already owing almost EUR200 million to renewable energy investors, representing the value of green certificates investors should have received between July 2013 and April 2014 more

10.30.2013

Romania made nearly EUR100 million from selling some 21.5 million green certificates since January, Environment Minister Rovana Plumb said Wednesday. more

10.28.2013

Green power producers and especially owners of wind and solar farms already have EUR45 million to recover for the three months since the government changed its support scheme. They will get the money more

06.25.2013

The price of electricity will rise following Romanian authorities’ recent decision to limit state support for producers of renewable energy, Zoltan Nagy-Bege, member in the executive board of more

06.10.2013

A controversial emergency ordinance, recently adopted by the Romanian government, which amends the law on the production of renewable energy, has been published in the Official Journal. more

05.29.2013

Romanians who want to sell or rent their homes will be obliged starting July 20 to present the building’s energy efficiency certificate to prospective buyers or tenants. more

04.23.2013

Green power has been the hottest topic in the energy sector since the beginning of this year, with the prospect of changes to the support scheme pitching against one another investors, the authorities more

04.04.2013

A measure reducing the number of green certificates offered for renewable energy production will apply only to producers that enter Romania starting 2014, while the temporary reduction of the aid more

04.04.2013

Romania’s state-run power grid operator Transelectrica (TEL.RO) has asked to receive part of the green certificates allocated via a government support scheme in the renewable energy sector so it more

04.02.2013

Romania’s government will temporarily reduce the number of green certificates granted to renewable energy producers to rein in electricity price increases, according to a draft Government emergency more

03.31.2013

The current system supporting renewable energy producers in Romania does not take into account the impact on the main energy consumers and might affect the latter’s operational sustainability, more

03.06.2013

The reduction of state aid granted to renewable energy producers is detrimental to the sector and will cause many companies to leave the market, according to the Romanian Photovoltaic Industry more

03.04.2013

Romanian aluminum smelter Alro Slatina’s (ALR.RO) presence on the local market depends, in the short run, on the reduction of state aid granted to renewable energy producers, Gheorghe Dobra, the more

02.27.2013

A law significantly cutting the green energy support scheme could take effect as of July 1. At stake are investments of hundreds of millions of euros. more

02.20.2013

Romania plans to reduce the number of green certificates granted to solar energy producers starting with 2014, an official of the country’s energy regulator ANRE said Wednesday. more

11.19.2012

Solar energy was seen as the new boom in renewable energy after the wind power sensation. But after the first ten months of 2012, things don’t look very encouraging and some market specialists even more

05.22.2012

Romania’s energy watchdog ANRE will rethink in June the aid scheme for investments in photovoltaic power projects, and might propose a reduction of the number of green certificates granted for solar more

04.30.2012

Renewable energy generators are headed for their best year ever on the local market, because the amounts collected in first three months of 2012, under the support scheme provided by the Romanian more

03.08.2012

This year started in full gear for renewable energy producers, as they got almost EUR27 million in their accounts in January from the green certificates received for generating power using wind, more

11.23.2011

October turned out to be a good month for wind power, as strong winds drove output up to more than double the level of July, for instance. more

11.14.2011

A series of investors in renewable energy decided to give up EU funding to finance their projects, and chose the green certificate support scheme, which gives them higher profit and frees up EU funds more