11.14.2011

The energy price increase caused by the Romanian support scheme for renewable energy is not a very large sum, it's "only a few lei extra," Monday said Mircea Cotosman, adviser on environmental issues more

11.11.2011

Electrica, the only electricity distribution and supply company still in the portfolio of the Romanian state, says it has to recoup RON1.6 billion (EUR380.9 million) from companies to which it more

11.08.2011

Romania’s planned reorganization of the energy sector has gone from one failure to another, even if the authorities have not formally withdrawn any of the projects that were announced and then more

11.03.2011

Energy and gas prices need to be aligned with European ones between 2013 and 2015, or it will not secure necessary investment, worth EUR35 billion by 2020, especially on the energy segment, Thursday more

11.01.2011

Real estate transactions may be later challenged in court by the signatories or by third parties, if the property exchange or rental contract did not come with the building's energy efficiency more

11.01.2011

Romania’s energy resources rose 1% in 2010 compared with the previous year, while consumption widened by 1.6%, the country's national statistics office said Tuesday. more

10.26.2011

State-owned hydropower producer Hidroelectrica does not have the means to terminate its direct sale contracts, which are “perhaps” concluded over “too extended” periods, Wednesday said the more

10.21.2011

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, Thursday said it has completed the construction of a 70 MW wind farm in Tulcea, southern Romania, increasing its total installed capacity in the more

10.21.2011

The support scheme granting over EUR10 billion in aid to green energy investors will enter force next week (October 24 through October 30), a moment awaited by investors in the sector for three years. more

10.19.2011

The only trend seen by energy prices is upwards, but mechanisms need to be found to protect vulnerable consumers, Eric Stab, country manager for Romania within GDF Suez, said Wednesday. more

10.17.2011

The amount of power generated by wind farms in the first nine months of the year was over ten times higher than in the corresponding period of 2010, and owners of windmills made more than EUR42 more

10.14.2011

Energy investments completed in Romania in 2011 make it the best of the past 20 years, as the value of new electricity projects is around EUR2 billion. more

10.13.2011

The government’s latest bid to reorganize the national energy system, through the creation of complexes Oltenia and Hunedoara, is seen by specialists as a better idea than the two previous ones, more

10.13.2011

After Dobrogea was invaded by investors who developed or planned to develop wind farm projects (the installed capacity of wind farms in the region nears that of a reactor at the nuclear plant in more

10.12.2011

Romania's Government on Wednesday approved the ordinance providing state aid through green certificates for renewable energy production, after repeated complaints about delays from business more

10.10.2011

Electricity and gas traders will need to report their transactions to the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators, or CER, according to new framework adopted by the EU Monday, for the more

10.04.2011

Romanian government has not yet approved the subsidies for renewable energy producers because it fears the impact on the electricity bills will be too high, the Wind Power Association AREE said more

10.04.2011

Cristian Secosan, general manager of Siemens Romania, says 2011 brought a significant increase in orders, so despite all uncertainties that put economic growth to the test this year, the German more

09.30.2011

Romania's Economy Ministry has drafted a government decision on the creation of the Hunedoara Energy Complex, through the merger of energy producers Electrocentrale Deva and Electrocentrale Paroseni, more

09.29.2011

The European Commission has opened infringement proceedings against Romania and other member states for failing to transpose two directives, regarding the electricity and natural gas markets, and the more

09.29.2011

Romania's Economy Ministry has opened a public debate on the draft government decision to create the Oltenia Energy Complex, through the merger of thermal power stations Turceni, Craiova and Rovinari more

09.29.2011

Romania’s raw material supply for electricity and heating will cost 5.69 billion lei (EUR1.3 billion) in the winter 2011-2012 season, 34% more than the costs in the previous inter, according to a more

09.26.2011

Marius Moise, an entrepreneur trained in marketing, set up his own business after persuading several companies with a minimum energy consumption of 50 MWh/year to change their supplier of electricity more

09.26.2011

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development Monday extended a EUR20 million loan to Romanian lender BCR to finance investments in the energy sector developed by small- and medium-sized more

09.21.2011

The energy export contract signed by Romania’s largest energy production companies and the local branch of Serbian energy group Rudnap, will be extended through the end of the year, even though it more