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Romanian businesses back BusinessEurope stand on EC proposal to trade ETS certificates
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The Romanian Businessmen's Association backs the position taken by BusinessEurope on the European Commission's proposal to modify the emissions trading system (ETS) aimed at trading the polluting substance certificates.'The Association believes that any modification of the system agreed in the European Union should only be made by taking into account the interests of some members, even ...
Vestas awarded 72MW contract in Romania
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The 36-turbine order constitutes the first part of a project consisting of a total of 42 V90-2.0 MW wind turbines to be installed in Tulcea County in Romania The ...
EnviMin Varga wants Romania's 11 river basins to be planned on German model
Thursday, April 18, 2013
Minister-delegate for Water, Forestry and Aquaculture Lucia Varga said Thursday in Ramnicu-Valcea that she intends to request the planning of Romania's 11 river basins along a German model.'In order to prevent the effects of floods of the past years, we have to conceive a wide-ranging project and give up on tinkering, and I mean here the works conducted where floods stroke. We could use ...
EU's chief science advisor gives shale gas go-ahead
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The EU’s chief scientific advisor has said that evidence allows the go-ahead for extracting shale gas, the energy source at the centre of a European policy tug-of-war. The EU executive launched a green paper on 27 March, setting out Europe's energy and ...
Governments reconfirm commitment to ensure Nabucco is selected as first route for Caspian Gas
Thursday, April 18, 2013
The fourth NABUCCO Committee convened in Budapest, Hungary last week. The Committee comprises senior representatives of those governments who are signatories to the Intergovernmental Agreement – Bulgaria, Hungary, ...
Visit of China Gezouba Group Corporation delegation, interested in hydropower plant at Tarnita-Lapustesti
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Representatives of China Gezouba Group Corporation (CGGC) on Tuesday pay a visit to Cluj County (central-western Romania) and have talks with the local authorities concerning the project for the construction of the hydropower plant of Tarnita-Lapustesti, of Transilvania Motorway and the construction of the Emergency Regional Hospital.According to a release of the Prefecture of Cluj remitted to ...
Uruguay interested in Constanta, Montevideo ports cooperation on energy
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romania and Uruguay will stage a business forum in Bucharest in October or November meant to boost the economic relations between the two states, Romanian Foreign Minister Titus Corlatean announced at a news conference on Tuesday with Uruguayan counterpart Luis Leonardo Almagro Lemes, who particularly showed interest in the energy-sector exchanges, which he said can open new ways for ...
Romania's integrated waste management requires at least EUR 1.3 bln by 2020
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romania needs at least 1.3 billion euros in the programming period 2014 - 2020 to create an integrated waste management infrastructure, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Rovana Plumb said on Tuesday at the opening conference of the International Environment Fair ‘Romenvirotec 2013'.'We need technology advance in the environmental sector, particularly in Romania, whose sensitive issue is ...
ME: Romgaz and Transgaz strategy activities, institutional and international relations, to be Bucharest-based
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romgaz and Transgaz headquarters will remain in Medias (Sibiu County, central Romania) and only the strategy activities, institutional relations and international relations will be conducted from Bucharest, organised within some secondary headquarters, according to an Economy Ministry release remitted on Tuesday.'These measures will not imply layoffs or staff redundancies in the two companies, as the ...
Natural gas imports, down 12.6pct in first 2 months
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romania imported in the first two months of 2013 a natural gas quantity of 384,400 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), by 12.6 per cent (55,200 toe) lower compared to that in the similar period of 2012, according to the data centralized by the National Statistics Institute.In the first two months of this year, the domestic production of natural gas totaled ...
Refined coal production drops by 21.5 percent in first two months of 2013
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romania's refined coal production totalled 849,400 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) in the first two months of 2013 and was by 21.5 percent (232,100 toe) lower than the one in the similar time span of last year, according to the data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics. In the above-mentioned span of time Romania imported 109,400 toe of ...
Lucia Varga: Romania loses 5 billion euros because of illegally cutting down woods
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Romania lost more than five billion euros because of illegally cutting down woods in the past two decades, Lucia Ana Varga, Minister Delegate for Water, Forests and Fisheries, told a press conference in Alba Iulia (central Romania) on Saturday.She emphasized the fact that the main cause of floods in Romania was the uncontrolled deforestation. ...
Statistics: Fall in primary energy and electric power resources in the first two months
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Primary energy resources have decreased by 7.3 percent and the electric power resources by 5.6 percent in the first two months of 2013, compared to the same period last year, according to data the National Institute of Statistics (INS) published on Friday.According to statistics, the main primary energy resources over January 1 - February 28, 2013 totaled 4,997,900 tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), down by 393.2 toe ...
Mihai Adrian Albulescu, appointed Romania's representative in Nabucco Committee
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Economy Ministry's Secretary of State Mihai Adrian Albulescu was appointed Romania's representative in Nabucco Committee, through a decision of Prime Minister Victor Ponta released in the Official Gazette.Through the same regulation, Rodin Traicu was released from the office of Romania's representative in the Committee.Nabucco Committee includes governmental representatives of the transit countries of ...
Transelectrica requesting weighted allocation of green certificates for transmission grid
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Transelectrica is calling on the authorities to allocate 0.1-0.2 per cent of a green certificate earmarked to energy producers from renewable sources for the development of the national transmission grid, Transelectrica Director General Gheorghe Stefan told Energy Business Summit on Thursday.'We are requesting that part of the green certificates be steered toward the development of the grid, which is overstressed. ...
Constantin Nita: Royalties for shale gas, to be established through differentiated collection system
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The fees for the exploitation of shale gas will be established after the assessment of the exploration results and it will be a royalty collection system differentiated from the other natural resources, Minister Delegate for Energy Constantin Nita said at the Energy Business Summit.'For the shale gas, we shall have a royalty system different from the rest of royalties. For now, we cannot speak of taxation; we still ...
New EU rules target transparency of oil, gas revenues
Thursday, April 11, 2013
The EU has adopted new laws aimed at increasing the transparency of government payments from the oil and gas industry, in a move hailed by U2 frontman Bono as a "gamechanging breakthrough" on corruption in resource-rich developing countries. Ministers, the ...
Ponta: I am for shale gas exploration; if we discover deposits, I will be for exploitation in safe conditions
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Prime Minister Victor Ponta said, on Friday, March 29, he is for the shale gas exploration, adding that an eventual exploitation might start only in five years time, in compliance with all environmental standards.'The idea is this: at the moment, for Romania and for all of Europe, the issue of gas price is fundamental. First of all, for the population - the price; but especially for industry, which becomes ...
Electricity price to rise by as much as 40 pct in the short term under draft Urgency Ordinance
Thursday, April 4, 2013
The price of electricity will rise between 25 and 40 percent in the short term, with half of the growth caused by green energy subsidies in the context of the prices' liberalization and the shaping of the regional market, provides the draft Urgency Ordinance amending and supplementing Law No. 220 / 2008 on the establishment of the system for the promotion of renewable energy generation, a document that was released for public ...
Industrial consumers to pay less than half for granted green certificates
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Industrial consumers will pay 50 percent less for the green certificates from July 1, 2013, exemption to which it adds the deducted paid amount under the new scheme of certificate granting, the measure being applicable to consumers with an annual consumption of at least 150 GW, announced the Minister delegate for energy, Constantin Nita, in a press conference on Tuesday.'By the new amendments to Law 220 industrial ...