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Energy Ministry releases Romania’s energy strategy for 2018-2030 in view of 2050
The Energy Ministry has posted on its website, on Thursday, the draft Energy Strategy of Romania for 2018-2030 in view of 2050, document to be approved by Government decision after receiving the environment opinion, ministry sources say quoted by romaniajournal.ro.
Energy Minister, Anton Anton, said that “Romania’s development and increase of economy competitiveness, increase in quality of life and the protection of the environment are closely related to the development and upgrading of the energy system. The draft Energy Strategy for Romania starts with this phrase, this is the concept on which this document is built, whereas the main beneficiary of the Energy Strategy will be the consumer.”
Strategic investments of national interest are considered, as the completion of Cernavoda Nuclear Plant groups 3 and 4, the building of the hydropower plant by accumulation at Tarnita-Lapustesti, the completion of the 600MW group at Rovinari and the building of the Hydro-technical complex at Turnu Magurele – Nicopole.
After the period of public debates, a final document on the strategy will be released, needing the environment opinion. Following these steps, the document is to be approved by Government Decision, according to Law 123/2012, framework law on the energy sector.
Romania’s pit coal reserves are enough for 104 years
Romania’s pit coal resources would be sufficient for 104 years, but their exploitation is impossible, being economically inefficient, so that four of the five groups in Deva will be closed down, show the draft of Romania’s Energy Strategy 2018 – 2030.
”The known pit coal resources in Romania are 232 million tons (85 million toe (tons of oil equivalent)) out of which 83 million tons (30 million toe) permits are leased. The exploitation of this primary energy resource is conditioned by the economic feasibility of the exploitation, ”according to the document.
The average calorific value of the pit coal exploited in Romania is 3,650 kcal/kg.
The need for coal for the production of electric and thermal energy will be ensured by the production of the Vulcan and Livezeni mines, complemented by the necessary import, until the reconfiguration of the non-profitable thermal energy capacities from the coal on another more efficient primary energy resource.
”The coal reserves in Romania are impossible to exploit under conditions of economic efficiency, which makes it impossible to build new groups instead of the withdrawn ones, ” the authors of the project said.
The 2018-2030 Energy Strategy of Romania, with the prospect of 2050, was launched Thursday in a public debate. The document will then be approved by Government Decision, according to Law 123/2012, the framework law of the energy sector.
Romania to run out of gas in 14 years, if deposits from Black Sea remain unextracted
Romania's gas reserves will be depleted in the next 14 years, and the rate of exploitation of deposits from the Black Sea is a sine-qua-non condition to further rely on this resource in the country's energy mix, shows Romania's Energy Strategy 2018-2030 project, with a view to 2050, published on Thursday on the website of the Ministry of Energy.
"In order to avoid the significant growth of import dependency, even if they are available from sources and alternative routes, it is necessary to develop the off-shore deposits discovered in the last years in the Black Sea. This is a sine-qua-non condition in order to rely on natural gas in the electric energy mix," the strategy mentions.
The data provided by the National Agency for Mineral Resources, inserted in the project, show that the natural gas reserves of the country, without the ones from the Black Sea, stand at 153 billion cubic meters, which, for an annual production of 10.5 billion cubic meters, would be enough for 14.6 years.
The gas production from the Black Sea will reach its peak in 2025: "the production of natural gases will drop after reaching a peak of 132 TWh in 2025, as a result of the production in the Black Sea, to 96 TWh in 2030 and 65 TWh in 2050".
The exploitation of mineral oils in the Black Sea will have a major contribution in ensuring Romania's energy security. Cumulative levels of conventional onshore and offshore production could potentially exceed the currently estimated level of the internal market's demand, which is relatively linear.