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Gas rates for household consumers increase about 8pct in July and 2pct in October, 2013
Thursday, November 22, 2012
The regulated rates of natural gas supply will increase from April 1, 2013, about 5 percent for non-household consumers, and, from July 1, 2013, around 5 percent for non-household consumers and about 8 percent for household consumers, according to the annual report of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) on the establishment of regulated prices and rates.Also, the natural gas supply rates will increase from October 1, 2013, about 3 percent ...
Romania to produce 84 pct of its energy from renewable sources by 2050
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Romania will produce 84 percent of its energy from renewable sources by 2050, as such production is put at 25 percent at present, reveals the Energy [R]evolution Report for 2012 launched by Greenpeace Romania at a news conference on Monday.According to the conclusions of the research, in which estimations are made based on two scenarios (Energy [R]evolution and a benchmark scenario respectively), the renewable sources at present meet a quarter of the ...
EC: A better energy deal for consumers
Thursday, November 22, 2012
EU countries will be pushed to fully apply EU energy rules so the market works to its full potential for consumers. EU countries have agreed on common rules for a more competitive energy market, one that offers people and businesses secure and sustainable supplies at fair prices, European Commission said in a statement last week. These rules are key to overcoming the challenges facing us today, including climate change, over dependence on ...
It's time to complete the internal energy market
Thursday, November 22, 2012
An efficient, interconnected and transparent European internal energy market will offer citizens and businesses secure and sustainable energy supplies at lowest possible cost. With today's Communication on how to make the internal energy market work the Commission calls on Member States to step up their efforts to transpose and implement the existing EU internal energy market rules. The Commission will work with Member States to empower consumers and to reduce state interventions which ...
President Basescu: Time is ripe for us to resume open pit gold or copper mining
Thursday, November 22, 2012
President Traian Basescu said on Friday in remarks delivered at the Cotroceni presidential palace that it is high time Romania resumed open pit mining, be it for the exploitation of either copper or gold resources.'The time is ripe for us to resume open pit mining, be it for gold or copper, because global prices have now turned profitable activities which were no longer so 10-15 years ago, when they were halted,' Basescu said.He mentioned that he failed ...
ANRE suggests fewer green certificates for renewable energy
Thursday, November 22, 2012
Romania's National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) is suggesting fewer green certificates for investment in renewable energy in order to avoid the situation in which end consumers would be unable to pay for the aid scheme, officials of the Economy Ministry and ANRE told a Focus Energetic conference.'There is the risk for a conflict between regulations and the readiness of end consumers to pay for the aid scheme for renewable energy. The International Monetary Fund ...
ANRE to regulate the coming on the market of the wind energy producers
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The development over the last years of wind power stations started to produce discontent on the energy market of Romania. Both the representatives of the units of energy from classical sources as well as those of the national operation of transport “Transelectrica’ accuse the lack of clear regulations for the coming on the market of wind energy production, fact which could lead to powerful imbalance in ...
Wind power growth to slow, pick up after 2020
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The growth of wind power generation is likely to slow over the next few years, hit by cutbacks in the budget subsidies in the United States and Europe that have driven 15 years of construction, says a report published Wednesday (14 November). Held back by a struggling world economy and the failure to create commercial conditions which stimulate more green investment, the report by the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) and Greenpeace ...
EBRD lending Romania 91 million euros for wind farm
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing Romania a loan of 91 million euros towards the construction and operation of an 80 MW wind farm located in Chirnogeni in the Dobrogea region.The project developer is EP Global Energy (EPGE), and the total cost of the project is expected to be roughly 130 million euros.The construction will start before the end of 2012, and full commissioning is expected to take place during the first ...
Gov't extends investment agreement for building Cernavoda reactors 3 and 4
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Government at its meeting on Wednesday approved extending an investment agreement aimed at building reactors 3 and 4 of Cernaovda Nuclear Power Plant (south-east of the capital) after Jan. 1, 2013, in a move meant to draw fresh investors, the Executive's spokesman Andrei Zaharescu has announced.The current investment agreement, which expires at year-end, when a decision on the investment should have been taken, has been extended by six months in the present form; ...
Energonuclear has now two foreign investors
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The state wants to attract new investors into the project of units 3 and 4 of Cernavoda nuclear plant and to reduce its shareholding, as EnergoNuclear has now two foreign investors, ArcelorMittal and Enel, whose cumulated stock is 15 percent, and Nuclearelectrica with 85 percent, secretary of state with Ministry of Economy Rodin Traicu told Agerpres in an interview.'During the visit paid to China in a delegation, we held talks with Guandong Nuclear company, whose ...
IAEA Deputy Director General : Cernavoda is a successful nuclear project
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Cernavoda is a successful nuclear project, said on Monday, in the opening of the tenth edition of the NucInfo Day 2012 symposium, the Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy, Alexander Bychkov.IAEA official said, in the context of this international event in Cernavoda (south-east of Bucharest), that the Fukushima nuclear accident has not marked a reversal trend in respects of the global perspectives of the nuclear energy.'We try to ...
Remin Baia Mare resumes tender to put up for sale over 500,000 tons of gold concentrate
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The National Company of Precious and Ferrous Metals Remin Baia Mare (north-west of Bucharest) will resume the tender aimed at selling 500,000 tons of gold concentrate over two weeks, as none of the companies that purchased the technical specifications took part in the first public tender, Remin Director, engineer Ovidiu Galca told Agerpres on Tuesday.Remin, which is subject to an insolvency procedure, put up for sale the gold concentrate with a high arsenic content ...
EnviMin Plumb: Romania is currently recycling only 3pct of aluminium packaging waste
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Romania is currently recycling only 3 percent of aluminium packaging waste, which is far below the European averages, which sometimes reache 70 percent, Romania's Minister of the Environment and Forestry Rovana Plumb told the launching conference on Monday of a project for improving the collection and recycling of household PET and aluminium packaging waste.'Under its commitments, Romania will have to set an annual collection target of 55 percent as from January 1, ...
Secretary of State Traicu: Gas exports may start in 2013
Thursday, November 15, 2012
In a few months it might be technically possible to export gas from Romania and at that time too they might overtax the income as a difference of profit from commercializing energy products, said Secretary of State with the Ministry of Economy, Trade and the Business Environment Rodin Traicu in an interview to Agerpres.According to him, Romania has not exported gas so far as we were not interconnected, therefore for technical reasons. Exports cannot be made now ...
27-million euro loan from EIB for thermal rehabilitation of building in Bucharest
Thursday, November 15, 2012
The European Investment Bank (EIB) granted a 27-million euro loan to fund the thermal rehabilitation of residential buildings of the capital, shows a EIB release remitted to Agerpres on Friday.The EIB loan will contribute to funding the thermal rehabilitation of 94 housing buildings in sector 4 of the municipality of Bucharest in the period 2012-2013. This will contribute to the reduction by about 50 percent of the energy consumption of the buildings in question and ...
MAE: Interconnection of energy system between Romania and Rep. of Moldova, discussed by Bogdan Aurescu in Chisinau
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Secretary of State for Strategic Affairs Bogdan Aurescu met, on Thursday, in Chisinau, the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and European Integration of the Republic of Moldova, Andrei Popov, the two officials paying special attention, in their talks, to the projects of interconnection of the energy systems of the two countries, with a major impact on a concrete connection of the neighboring country to the European grids infrastructure.According to a press release ...
Green public acquisitions in Romania make only 26pct, ie half of European average
Thursday, November 15, 2012
More than a quarter of Romania's public acquisitions, made in 2009-2010, were green, below the EU imposed average since two years ago, reveals the report under the heading 'Green acquisitions for sustainable development', presented on Friday, in a specialized conference of the Save the Danube and Danube Delta Association.The survey authors believe that, to reach the target of 50 percent of ecological public acquisitions (EPA) imposed by the European ...
Unexpected shutdown of Cernavoda n-plant's unit 2 did not affect safety of people or the environment
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The unexpected shutdown on Wednesday of unit 2 of the Cernavoda nuclear-power plant did not effect the safety of the population or the environment, the Ministry of the Environment and Forestry (MMP) reports in a press release.'Information coming from the National Environmental Protection Agency indicates that the automated gamma radiation monitoring devices do not show any increase in the normal values, while the results of the measurements fall within the limits of ...
MECMA supports investor drawing alternative by reducing state stake in Cernavoda reactors 3 and 4
Thursday, November 8, 2012
The Economy Ministry worked out a Memorandum including four alternatives for developing the project of rectors 3 and 4 of Cernavoda, the preferred alternative being that of drawing new investors by reducing the state's stake in the project, Economy, Trade and Business Environment Ministry Director Alexandru Sandulescu told a conference on the Romanian energy system on Wednesday.We have prepared a Memorandum for the development of the project of reactors 3 and 4 of ...