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Coal imports will fall by more than 40% this year; production will fall by 12.5%
The coal production of Romania will drop this year by 12.5% down to 2.705 million tep, while imports will diminish by 40.3% at 210,000 tep, according to the estimates of the National Commission for Strategy and Prognosis (CNSP).
The latest energy balance forecast indicates that, by 2026, coal production dynamics and imports are expected to decrease as more power generation capacity comes on stream. Thus, in 2024 production will fall by 6.7% (to 2.525 million toe) and imports by 6.7% (to 195 000 toe), in 2025 by 8.6% (to 2.31 million toe) and 4.5% (to 185 000 toe) respectively and in 2026 by 10.2% (to 2.075 million toe) and 2.5% (to 180 000 toe) respectively.
The CNSP points out that in 2022, the difficult international context, in which it was necessary to reduce dependence on natural gas imports, on top of which the consequences of a dry year with unfavourable results on hydroelectric power generation were superimposed, required the additional use of coal, which also implied a slight increase in domestic production, estimated at 2.8%. As for imports, they are estimated to have been significantly reduced, namely -17.5% for coal and -27.7% for coke. Most of the coal resources were used for electricity and heat production (89.3%).