10.15.2013

Aluminum smelter Alro Slatina (ALR.RO) has invested about $100 million since 2002 in increasing its energy efficiency. more

10.14.2013

The European Commission has put several energy projects which involve Romania, including AGRI and a pipeline running from Bulgaria to Austria, on a list of 250 infrastructure projects that may qualify more

10.08.2013

ZFEnglish.com presents the 2013 digital edition of the Energy Annual Report, in English, highlighting the main events in the oil, natural gas, and energy sectors. The report brings a comprehensive more

10.07.2013

Romanian energy output fell 7.2% on the year to 14.09 million tons of oil equivalent in the first eight months, hurt by falling production in the thermal sector, official data showed Monday. more

10.07.2013

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10.03.2013

Romania’s energy market regulator ANRE is calling on the Government to reduce support granted to a quarter of cogeneration plants, arguing that the aid they receive is too high, people close to the more

10.03.2013

Romania will continue to stimulate renewable energy production and is currently looking into potential support schemes for industrial consumers, the country’s Energy Department said in a statement more

10.02.2013

Romania’s energy market regulator ANRE capped at 8.5% from 10% the rate of return (ROR) on investments made by electricity distributors and may increase it by 0.5 percentage points if distributors 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

09.23.2013

Victorio-Alexandru Piturca is investing between EUR1.3 and EUR1.5 million in a photovoltaic park in Olt county (southern Romania), which is due to be completed in nearly a month. more

09.23.2013

Romania’s planned auction to select one or more companies to draft a new national energy strategy will be postponed to an unspecified date due to lack of funds to organize the proceedings, Energy 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

09.19.2013

Unpaid utility bills due to price increases caused some of energy and natural gas suppliers in Romania to enter insolvency, Thursday said Silvia Vlasceanu, general manager of the association of more

09.19.2013

Romania’s future national energy strategy must serve the interests of the private sector and household consumers, rather than those of the state, Gabriel Dumitrascu, head of the Energy more

09.18.2013

Romania plans to finance investments in modernizing its energy sector with funds obtained from selling to power producers greenhouse gas emission certificates, which the country will receive from the more

08.30.2013

GDF Suez Energy Romania, a unit of French-Belgian utility GDF Suez, Friday said its net profit rose 35.6% to 352.5 million lei (EUR79.45 million) in the first half, helped by lower purchase costs. more

08.23.2013

Nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica, which covers around 20% of Romania’s energy consumption, has lost 23 energy sale contracts since the beginning of the year after the buyers decided to more

08.21.2013

Virgil Mailat, the businessman who introduced PET bottled beer in Romania at the time he was a shareholder of Bere Mures brewery, has completed renewable energy projects worth around EUR43 million more

08.02.2013

GDF Suez Energy Romania, a unit of French-Belgian utility GDF Suez, increased by 150 million lei (EUR34 million) to RON154 million the share capital of Buzau-based wind farm developer Alizeu Eolian, more

07.31.2013

Romanian state-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica has started legal proceedings against energy traders Alpiq Romindustries and Energy Holding claiming “several hundred million lei” for more

07.31.2013

More than EUR1 billion were invested in wind and solar farms in the first half of the year, and EUR288 million were paid as subsidies to producers. Renewable energy accounted for 12% of total more

07.30.2013

Romania plans to apply reserve taxation on electricity deliveries to traders and on transactions involving green certificates in a move to fight tax evasion and eliminate cash-related problems 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

07.25.2013

The Romanian government plans to set up an investment fund with an initial capital of over EUR1 billion that would include the state’s minority stakes in the companies held by the Economy more

07.25.2013

Romanian Minister-delegate for Energy Constantin Nita said Thursday he plans to lower cogeneration fees and energy transport tariffs and find additional solutions to support both industrial and more