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

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

02.01.2013

Enel Green Power Romania, a subsidiary of Enel Green Power, increased the share capital by 500 million lei (EUR114.4 million), to RON2.93 billion at the end of 2012, through the cash inflow of its more

01.28.2013

Romanian businessman Marin Moraru, general manager of the Braila-based Marex group whose operations target swine farming, meat processing, alcohol and bioethanol production and agriculture, is more

01.28.2013

Renewable energy producers in Romania collected more than EUR310 million in green certificates in 2012, through the government support scheme, which is three times more than they got in 2010. more

01.24.2013

Investors in green power, an industry that witnessed a boom over the last three years, are getting increasingly worried because of the rumors about the modification of the support scheme for the more

01.06.2013

Constanta, Tulcea, Galati, Caras-Severin and Braila are Romania’s top counties when it comes to installed capacity of green power projects. The five counties have attracted more than EUR2.5 billion more

12.28.2012

Enel Green Power, a unit of Italy’s utility Enel, has connected to the grid three new wind farms located in southeastern Romania, with a total capacity of 206 megawatts, the company said in a press more

12.20.2012

Green power producers got more than EUR260 million via the support scheme of the Romanian government in the first eleven months, according to the data published by national grid company Transelectrica more

10.30.2012

Renewable energy attracted investments of around EUR1 billion in the first nine months of this year in Romania, with more than EUR900 million drawn by wind energy alone. more

09.26.2012

The Romanian Government has allotted 20 million lei (EUR4.4 million) by the end of the year to finance the projects already submitted under the Green House program, Environment Minister Rovana Plumb more

09.05.2012

The capacity of the operational wind farms in Romania might double by the end of 2014, from the current 1,390 MW, which cost about EUR2 billion. Although this is a significant leap from the 14 MW more

08.30.2012

Romania now has green energy projects the size of the two Cernavoda nuclear reactors, after investments of over EUR2 billion. more

08.02.2012

While wind farms projects have already attracted EUR2 billion investments and solar farms are seen as the new stars of green energy, projects turning wood or waste into power are tentatively more

07.25.2012

Renewable energy producers got green certificates worth some EUR138 million in the first six months, which is significantly higher than the about EUR95 million they got for the entire last year. The more

06.28.2012

The scheme granting six green certificates per each megawatt of solar power generated remains valid for the projects done by early 2014. more

06.18.2012

The aid granted by Romania to support the production of renewable energy is too generous and will lead to overcapacity, which will affect the stability of the country’s energy system, according to a more

05.25.2012

Green power producers collected from the support scheme put in place by the Romanian government almost EUR100 million in the first four months of the year, as much as they did last year. Eighty 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

05.13.2012

Solar energy was credited by many specialists as being the next energy boom after wind turbines had conquered almost the whole of Dobrogea (SE Romania). more

05.09.2012

The first-quarter electricity production of Dorobantu wind farm brought OMV Petrom (SNP.RO) 61,763 green certificates, which might be valued at EUR3.39 million at current market prices, Romania’s more

05.03.2012

Wind turbines planted by Czech group CEZ in Dobrogea, in Fantanele and Cogealac, will put over EUR170 million into the pockets of CEZ, with the group thus becoming one of the largest local producers 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