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Romania has six out of 15 environmental infringement issues to solve
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Romania has only six environmental infringement issues to solve out of a total of 15 once reported, Minister of the Environment and Forestry Rovana Plumb told a specialist conference on Tuesday.'Waste is one of the important challenges facing Romania in the province of the environment. Romania has 15 infringement issues related to environmental protection, of which six are still to be settled. A first one, involving Sulina, will be settled next week, when European ...
Beach Energy ventures offshore Romania
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Beach Energy Ltd., Adelaide, has agreed to take a 30% interest in the offshore Est Cobalcescu block in the Black Sea offshore Romania and will form a joint venture with Melrose Resources PLC and Petromar Resources SA. The move comes via Beach’s partnership with Melrose in the Mesaha permit in Egypt. Beach is expected to spend $24.8 million during the first ...
Romita to put EUR 41 mln for a 10MW biomass plant in Romania
Thursday, September 20, 2012
Italian Romita Energie Verde plans to invest around EUR 41 million for a biomass unit with an installed capacity of 10MW in the Cluj County, making this the largest renewable capacity of this kind in Romania, and one of the largest in South-East Europe, according to a statement of the Cluj County Council. Local authorities met earlier this week with Italian representatives of investment funds and Romita to discuss the project ...
Leaked EU paper maps energy infrastructure black spots
Thursday, September 20, 2012
EU countries are urged to speed up the connections of their gas and electricity grids, according to a draft European Commission report on investment in energy infrastructure, seen by EurActiv. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as Malta, Cyprus, Spain and Portugal, are on a “gas island” because of insufficient infrastructure connections with the rest of the EU, the draft report says. But perhaps more ...
Romania’s Transgaz working on EUR 24 mln project to connect natural gas supply to Bulgaria
Thursday, September 20, 2012
A new project is underway to connect Romania’s natural gas supply to Bulgaria. The move is a response to the gas supply crisis in the region during the extreme cold weather and the Ukrainian/Russian dispute that interrupted a vital supply route into Europe causing shortages. The EU decided that countries should have two sources of natural gas to prevent a repeat of the shortages. The new pipeline will connect Giurgiu and Ruse, passing under the Danube. The ...
EU study sparks regulation debate over ‘high-risk’ shale gas
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Tough new regulations could be slapped on the shale gas industry if the EU acts upon legislative and environmental failings identified in its most comprehensive analysis yet of the sector, due to be released last Friday [7 September]. Shale gas drilling poses a ‘high risk’ to human health and the environment that is worse than that posed by other fossil fuels, according to a 300-page report prepared by the EU's environment directorate. It is also currently ...
Ordinance on ANRE passes in Chamber of Deputies
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The deputies approved on Tuesday the Emergency Ordinance on the organisation and activity of the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE), partly approving the reexamination request of President Traian Basescu. The decision to pass the Emergency Ordinance 33/2007 on the amendment and completion of the Law of electrical power and Law on gas 351/2004 was made with 241 votes in favour, one against and two abstentions. Chairman of the Commission of industries within ...
Primary energy resources decrease by 3.5pct in first seven months
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Primary energy resources decreased, in the first seven months of this year, by up to 3.5 percent compared to the corresponding period of 2011, while the domestic production fell by 2 percent and imports by 6 4 percent, according to a National Institute of Statistics (INS) release.The main primary energy resources in the first half totaled 19,845.3 thousand tons of oil equivalent (toe), a decrease of 723 thousand toe against Jan. 1 - July 31, 2011. The domestic ...
Hidroelectrica to commission hydro-aggregate at Rusanesti plant, Olt County
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Hidroelectrica is commissioning today an upgraded hydro-aggregate at the Rusanesti power plant, Olt County, that is part of a unique European project for an ensemble of five hydropower plants each equipped with four pump turbines.This will be the 17th upgraded hydro-aggregate to be re-commissioned out of a total of 20 included in the project, with costs being valued at 385 million euros. The final investment for the entire project is expected to reach 400 million ...
Large countries oppose EU Gazprom deals scrutiny
Thursday, September 13, 2012
Poland is the only large EU country in favour of involving the European Commission in scrutinising bilateral agreements with Gazprom, says a leading member of the European Parliament. The European Parliament stands united ahead of the vote on the proposal for setting up an information exchange mechanism involving the Commission in agreements between EU member countries and Russia, said Kari?š. The ...
Parliament gives final green light to energy efficiency directive
Thursday, September 13, 2012
The EU tightened the energy efficiency thumbscrew by one notch Tuesday (11 September), when the European Parliament plenary threw its weight behind the new Energy Efficiency Directive, negotiated before the summer break with EU member states. The directive came as a result of the March 2007 EU summit, when member states had struck an agreement on a 20% energy efficiency target by 2020, together with a 20% renewable energy target and a 20% CO2 reduction target. Whilst ...
Romanian ambassador to Azerbaijan: We hope for feasibility study for AGRI project in November
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Romania's Ambassador to Azerbaijan Daniel Ciobanu hopes that the feasibility study for the AGRI project should be ready by the end of November.'The AGRI project is vital for Romania. The things are going well. The company was selected to perform the feasibility study and we hope it is ready by the end of November. Azerbaijan are a hundred percent politically open as are all the other countries involved,' said Ciobanu, who attended the Annual Meeting of the Romanian ...
Cyanides to be used for only 10pct of gold ore mined at Certej
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Gold at Certej, the western Romanian county of Hunedoara, will be mined using a technology that utilises cyanides in a closed circuit only and only for the gold concentrate, which is just 10 percent of the gold ore subjected to processing under the project, Director General Nicolae Stanca of Deva Gold, the company carrying out the investment in the mining project, said Tuesday.'No cyanides will be used under the Certaj mining project from the flotation stage to the ...
Natural gas consumption declines to 79.56 million MWh, in first semester of 2012
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The natural gas consumption in Romania totaled 79.56 million MWh in the first semester of 2012, increasing 2.363 percent compared with that in the similar period of last year, which amounted to 81.485 million MWh, according to the data centralized by the Energy National Regulatory Authority (ANRE).The domestic natural gas production that went to consumption in June stood at 84.96 percent of the total sources, the first two producers (Romgaz and Petrom) covering 96.05 ...
S&P cuts Romania's Transgaz Medias to 'BB'; outlook neg
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The following statement was released by the rating agency on Sept 04 2012 : Overview -- The regulatory environment for gas transmission activities in Romania has become less supportive, in our view, and weighs on Transgaz's competitive position. -- We are lowering our long-term foreign and local currency ratings on ...
Installed windpower capacity in Romania up 112.6 pct in 2011, it might double this year
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Installed windpower capacity in Romania surged by 112.6 percent in 2011, compared to 2010, with estimates revealing that the installed capacity doubled in 2011, according to the 2012 Report entitled Wind Energy and Other Renewable Energy Sources in Romania, launched on Wednesday by TPA Horwath and the law firm Schoenherr & Associates.The latest figures show an installed capacity of 1,140 MW in April 2012 in Romania and according to the experts in the renewable ...
Filasa International to invest 3 billion euros in wind projects in Romania
Thursday, September 6, 2012
The French company Filasa International will invest 3 billion euros in wind power projects in Romania by 2013 through the agency of Eolenvest, a fact that implies the development of some total capacities over 2,000 MW, said managing director of Filasa International Bernard Esquirol on Thursday when they began work on the project of South-Eastern Wind Farms, in the Braila-Buzau area (south-eastern Romania).'In Romania we are going to develop projects on producing wind ...
Enel Green Power: Moldova Noua wind farm in Romanai enters operation
Thursday, September 6, 2012
Enel Green Power (EGP) has completely connected the new Moldova Noua wind farm in the Banat region of Romania to the grid, EGP reported on Thursday in a press release.The fully operational plant, comprised of 21 2.3 MW SWT wind turbines with a total installed capacity of 48MW, 25MW of which have been online since December of last year, will be capable of generating some 130 million kilowatt hours, thus avoiding the emission of over 70,000 tonnes of CO2 into the ...
EurActiv: UN panel blows cold air on EU renewables policy
Thursday, September 6, 2012
A United Nations body has found that the European Union has failed in its commitments towards transparency and public participation in renewable energy policies - a move which has been hailed as a victory by wind farm opposition groups. The Compliance Committee for the Aarhus Convention, an international agreement on environment policy transparency, claimed the EU - which is a signatory - has failed to put in place a proper regulatory framework and clear instructions ...
Hidroelectrica denounced a contract with Paroseni, through which they lost 253.6 million lei in three years
Thursday, August 30, 2012
Euro Insol, the administrator of the electricity producer Hidroelectrica denounced a procurement contract for energy from the Paroseni thermal power station, through which the company which is in bankruptcy lost 253.6 million lei ( 56.8 million euro) over the last three years. Hidroelectrica signed the contract with the Paroseni thermal power station in 2008, for a period of ten years. ...