04.10.2013

The average electricity price dropped almost 40% in the first quarter of the year, and the trading price on the day-ahead (spot) market is now closer to the price in the similar period of 2009. more

04.08.2013

Investors in green energy kicked off production at facilities with a capacity of EUR350MW in the first two months of the year, following investments of around half a billion euros. more

04.05.2013

Romanian energy output fell 7.1% on the year to 3.56 million tons of oil equivalent in the first two months, hit by falling production in the thermal and nuclear power sectors, official data showed more

03.29.2013

An investor in a solar PV project who now gets six green certificates per megawatt/hour of power generated might get only four as of this summer, and the get the rest after mid 2016, according to a more

03.27.2013

“Prispa”, the house that can produce more energy than it consumes, owned by a family in Bacau county (NE Romania), has obtained the permit to join the energy grid, issued by Germany’s E.ON, the more

03.17.2013

Romania’s energy potential from geothermal sources could be evaluated at about EUR1.5 billion, based on the data on investments accomplished up to date and the most recent studies in the field. 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

03.12.2013

After three years and over EUR3 billion investments in 2,000 MW of wind energy, Romania is polluting more than it did before the 800 turbines were put in place. more

03.11.2013

Romania should focus its energy strategy on smaller, yet more flexible projects that require lower investments, instead of large energy projects, such as reactors 3 and 4 of the Cernavoda nuclear more

03.07.2013

Romania’s energy output fell 2.6% on the year to 1.93 million tons of oil equivalent in January, mainly due to declining production in the thermal power sector, official data showed Thursday. more

03.03.2013

Industrial engineering company Adrem Invest said Sunday it will start the construction of a cogeneration thermal power plant using biomass in Suceava, northeastern Romania. more

02.28.2013

The solar power industry may create new jobs as a significant part of a photovoltaic project may be developed with Romanian resources, Halil Demirdag, CEO of power producer Smart Group, said Thursday. more

02.22.2013

Dacia, the largest carmaker in Romania and one of the best-known Romanian brands abroad, has decided to become a producer of solar energy through a solar panel project which is set to be installed on more

02.18.2013

State-run energy company Complexul Energetic Oltenia, which was created last summer by the merger of major thermal power stations in Oltenia (S Romania) with the coal mines managed by Societatea more

02.15.2013

Local authorities in Piatra Neamt (northeastern Romania) want to build a photovoltaic park worth 72.2 million lei (EUR16.4 million), with an installed capacity of about 3 megawatts. more

02.11.2013

Romania ranked fifth in the European Union in terms of newly-installed wind power in 2012, with 923 new MW, following investments of around EUR1.5 billion. more

02.08.2013

A Chinese investor is making a bet of around EUR100 million to build the largest solar park in Romania, while other Chinese companies want to invest in wind turbine manufacturing. more

02.07.2013

Romanian power output declined 2.7% on the year to 22.76 million tons of oil equivalent in 2012, on falling production in most sectors, official data showed Thursday. 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

01.23.2013

Romania will export to Austria and Turkey the energy produced at the thermal power plant Complexul Energetic Oltenia will build in partnership with a Chinese firm, Laurentiu Ciurel, the general more

01.18.2013

A foreign manager says what the Economy minister should have said: Romania stands to gain too little from the green energy boom because most equipment is not built locally. more

01.17.2013

Bogdan Enoiu, who runs communication group BV McCann Ericskson Romania, is close to finalizing a EUR4 million investment in a solar park located close to Ploiesti, southern Romania. more

01.08.2013

Romania’s government is searching for investors to finance the construction of a 1,000-megawatt hydropower plant in Tarnita-Lapustesti, a project valued at EUR1.2 to EUR1.4 billion, minister more