01.30.2015

Romania’s energy exports, accounting for 15% of the output, touched the highest level in the last ten years in 2014, on the backdrop of lower prices compared with the European average and several more

01.27.2015

The automotive industry and energy sector will get new investments from foreign companies in the next two or three years, as the automotive component sector has already attracted major companies, more

01.22.2015

Romania does not need to increase energy production as the electricity demand will not require such a decision, but improve the efficiency of power stations, according to the representatives of more

01.15.2015

Romania’s energy consumption reached the highest level of the past three years at the end of last week amid the low temperatures, with coal as the main production source, doubled by hydropower more

01.14.2015

Most of the energy companies listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange are preparing to pay the highest dividends ever to their investors after a 2014 when utility companies posted record profits. more

01.14.2015

The price of energy traded on the spot market, a barometer of Romania's power market, soared in the last months of 2014, so that last year’s average was close to the 2013 one. more

01.12.2015

Energy regulator ANRE expects electricity and natural gas consumption to stall this year or even decline slightly amid moves to boost energy efficiency, after electricity demand contracted by 3.8% and more

01.12.2015

The price of a liter of gasoline went below the threshold of RON5 in Bucharest, after an over 20% decline from the July peak. While this is good news for drivers, analysts are warning there are also more

01.07.2015

About 480 wind turbines should have been deployed last year, yet by the end of November only 175 of them had been installed, which means the authorities’ estimates about the clean energy market were more

01.07.2015

EnergoBit Cluj, a major supplier of equipment and services for the energy field, controlled by Polish investment fund Innova Capital, bets on an 8-10% revenue increase this year, on export contracts more

01.06.2015

Electric power consumers will subsidize this year more renewable energy, namely 11.9% of the final gross electricity consumption, compared with 11.1% in 2014. more

01.06.2015

2014 brought a new peak of energy exports, with Romania fully benefiting from the regional context and sending energy worth almost EUR250 million abroad. While, by quantity, energy exports topped the more

12.18.2014

Romania’s government approved an ordinance setting up the Energy Ministry which will take over the attributions of public institution involved in the privatization and post-privatization monitoring more

12.17.2014

Romania’s nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica (SNN.RO) will sell next year 2.25 million MWh energy on the regulated market, down 40% from 3.74 million MWh this year, but at a higher price, more

12.17.2014

The energy sector, from coal mining to the sale of fuel in gas stations, is an about 136 billion lei (EUR30 billion) business, according to ZF’s calculations based on Trade Registry data. more

12.11.2014

Energy sector was full of surprising developments again in 2014. From unexpected exits to fraud scandals, major insolvencies or historic initial public offerings, 2014 had it all, which made it one of more

12.11.2014

Hidroelectrica and Complexul Energetic Oltenia, Romania’s largest energy producers, are preparing to be floated on the stock market. However, the two companies, which supply half of the country’s more

12.10.2014

The supplementary taxes which should have been applied to energy companies by yearend will be kept for one more year, until December 2015, on the backdrop of the postponement of a new royalty system more

12.05.2014

Romania’s energy sector requires investments of nearly EUR100 billion between 2015 and 2035, according to the country’s new draft strategy drawn up by the Energy Department. more

12.05.2014

The supplementary taxes which should have been applied to energy companies by yearend will be kept for one more year, until December 2015, on the backdrop of the postponement of a new royalty system more

12.03.2014

Electrica (EL.RO), Romania’s largest power distribution and supply company, gave up its plan of becoming a producer of renewable energy, a project it embarked upon in 2010. The decision is set to more

11.28.2014

The salaries of directors and managers of large state-run energy companies listed on the BVB rose in the first 9 months of this year by around 8-9%. The leader of the group is Transgaz, the national more

11.24.2014

Romania's energy regulator and several private companies have called on the Department for Energy to postpone by at least one more year the deregulation of the natural gas market for co-generation more

11.21.2014

The five largest state-run listed energy companies have 7.7 billion lei (EUR1.7 billion) cash in their accounts, more than one third of their market value. more

11.14.2014

EDP Renovaveis (EDPR), the renewable power unit of energy group Energias de Portugal, the third most powerful investor in Romanian green energy, in October operated three capital subscriptions in two more