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Impact of renewables in 2015 revealed by UN-backed study
Thursday, March 31, 2016
By EurActiv.com in partnership with edie.net Renewable energy sources added more generation capacity than all other technologies combined in 2015, with a world record ...
KPMG Study: New figures show the weight of the Romanian Oil & Gas Upstream Onshore industry
Thursday, March 31, 2016
* Each euro invested in exploration and production of oil and gas tripled in the Romanian economy, according to a study realized by consulting firm ...
Romania reached three years earlier the 24pct target of renewable energy
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Romania has reached three years earlier the 24pct target of renewable energy assumed for 2018 as it currently has 27pct, said Cristian Busu, State Secretary in the Energy ...
ForMin Comanescu on Romania's efforts to maintain a balanced energy mix
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Foreign Affairs Minister Lazar Comanescu expressed on last Thursday in Berlin Romania's commitment for the implementation of the transition process to a competitive economy, based ...
Energy Minister: discussions with EC on approving the state aid for Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) are lengthy
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The discussions with the European Commission on approving the state aid for Hunedoara Energy Complex (CEH) are lengthy, and solutions do not come from a man's pen or changes to the legislation, as it happened in the previous years, Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu told a Monday's debate on national energy ...
Romania imported, in January 2016, 511,800 tonnes of oil
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Romania imported an amount of crude oil in January 2016 of 511,800 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), higher by 19,100 to (3.9pct) from the same period of last year, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics ...
The energy strategy: the production of oil of Romania will drop and the costs for extraction will increase
Thursday, March 24, 2016
The production of oil of the country will drop on a short and medium term, and the costs of production will be higher and higher, as the resources will come from depth, it is shown in the report of a meeting between the officials of the ministry of energy and the specialists in the domain, regarding the drawing up of the Energy Strategy of Romania 2016 – 2030 with the perspective of 2050. According to Alexandru Patruti, expert in mineral resources and member of the Consultative ...
Population, power plants to consume only domestically-produced natural gas from April 2016 to March 2017
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Population and power plants that provide heating to households will consume only domestically-produced natural gas from April 1, 2016 to March 31, 2017, according to a document of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE). The estimated total quantity of natural gas to be used by households and power plants in the said period is 42.3 million MWh, of which 34.8 million MWh in winter ...
Eurostat: Romania produced in 2013 the lowest amount of municipal waste in the European Union
Thursday, March 24, 2016
With 254 kg per capita, Romania produced in 2013 the lowest amount of municipal waste in the European Union, where in 2014 the average was 475 kg of municipal waste per capita, show the data released on Tuesday by the European Statistical Office ...
Coal production totalled 436,100 tonnes of oil equivalent in January
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Romania's coal production totalled 436,100 tonnes of oil equivalent in January, having increased 4 percent (16,700 toe) from January 2015, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics ...
Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu participated in the second Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue
Thursday, March 24, 2016
Romania has learnt a difficult lesson from the way it has developed the wind and photovoltaic energy industry; in the future, new legislation must be preceded by accurate assessments and thorough studies, Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu told the Berlin Energy Forum, according to a posting on his personal Facebook ...
Reuters: EU leaders sign letter objecting to Nord Stream-2 gas link
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Eight EU governments have signed a letter objecting to the Nord Stream-2 project that would double the amount of gas shipped directly from Russia to Germany, according to a document seen by Reuters. The letter, addressed to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, reignites a debate that has pitched dominant EU member Germany against central and eastern European ...
SOCAR expands filling stations’ network in Romania
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) has increased the number of its gas filling stations in Romania to 33, said the message from the company quoted by http://en.trend.az/.SOCAR commissioned another gas filling station under its brand name on Bucharest-Constanta highway March 16, according to the message.Currently, the company’s gas filling stations operate in 16 regions of Romania.SOCAR is the sole producer of oil products in ...
Energy consumption increased by 8.6pct year-on-year in januaru 2016
Thursday, March 17, 2016
In January 2016, national energy consumption increased by 8.6pct year-on-year to 4.8 TWh, the National Institute of Statistics (INS) announced Friday. Public lighting recorded a 9.9pct decrease and population's consumption increased by ...
Energy Ministry has set up a mining coordination committee
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Energy Minister Victor Grigorescu has set up a mining coordination committee tasked with analysing the current state of the country's mineral energy resources (coal and uranium) and coming up with measures to increase efficiency and streamline operations in order to meet the demand for energy resources needed to achieve Romania's objectives of energy security, competitiveness and ...
OPCOM: 987 green certificates traded in the first two months of this year
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The number of green certificates traded in the first two months of this year on the Centralized Green Certificates Market was 987, 12 times down from the 12,140 units traded in the similar period of 2015, shows data released by the electricity market operator ...
European businesses make billions from free carbon quotas
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Europe’s carbon-intensive industries still reap excessive benefits from the carbon market, according to the NGO Carbon Market Watch. EurActiv France ...
Electricity production increased last year by 1.136 percent
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Romania's electricity production increased last year by 1.136 percent (plus 6.939 GWh) from the previous year, reaching 65,597 GWh; photovoltaic energy production saw the most significant increase of 22.58 percent to 2,003 GWh, according to data centralized by Transelectrica and released by the Energy ...
Rompetrol automates downstream business in Romania
Thursday, March 17, 2016
Rompetrol Downstream started the extensive rollout of OpenTAS including complete SAP integration at several of its sites in Romania, petrolplaza.com informs. The company will implement the integrated system landscape for an automated supply chain at six tank farms and the country’s largest refinery – Petromidia Navodari. The introduction of the automation solution developed by international software and consulting ...
Late publication of biofuels study raises questions
Thursday, March 17, 2016
The European Commission has finally published the Globiom Study on the indirect land use change [ILUC], which it had kept secret and unavailable during the public consultation period for the Renewable Energy Directive for the period ...