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

10.17.2013

Oil giant Saras, a business of around EUR12 billion chaired by Massimo Moratti, says it has suspended the authorization process for a EUR200 million wind project it planned to build in Constanta, 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

09.20.2013

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

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

07.15.2013

Enel Green Power (EGP), part of Italian utilities group Enel, has connected to the grid its first two photovoltaic parks in Romania, which have a total installed capacity of about 19 megawatts. 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

06.11.2013

Romania remains an attractive market for green energy projects despite the authorities’ recent decision to curtail state support for producers, according to representatives of TPA Horwath and 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

06.10.2013

Verbund, the largest energy company in Austria, says it will not go ahead with investments of almost EUR100 million in expanding the wind project in Casimcea (Tulcea) if the support scheme is modified more

06.05.2013

Amending the law on the production of renewable energy through emergency ordinance is illegal and breaches European directives, the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA) said Wednesday, warning that more

05.31.2013

Prime Minister Victor Ponta has taken an aggressive stance against E.ON Romania after the company’s chief executive Frank Hajdinjak said the group will give up its green energy projects in Romania more

05.29.2013

E.ON Romania, a unit of German utility E.ON, will give up its green energy projects on the local market unless the government reconsiders its plan to reduce subsidies in the field, the company’s 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

04.22.2013

The Romanian Economy Ministry Monday signed 11 financing contracts worth 670 million lei (EUR153.4 million) for several energy efficiency and renewable energy production projects. 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

03.12.2013

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, has invested EUR251 million in its Romanian wind energy network in 2012, the company said in its financial report Tuesday. 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

03.05.2013

The economy could benefit from the renewable energy boom if investors were rewarded based on the amount of components they buy from the local market for their projects, says George Catalin Costache, 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