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Transelectrica signed contracts for 10,000 MW installations in the wind sector
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Transelectrica signed contracts of 10,000 MW units of wind energy production and offered agreements for another 10,000 MW, stated on Thursday the head of National Energy Department of Translelectrica Marian Cernat at a conference regarding renewable energy. “ By April 2012 contracts for 10,000 MW installed and for another 10,000 MW are agreed upon “ Marian Cernat said. “For the integration of wind units in the system it is necessary the ...
PNL leader : We have to make a decision on exploitation of natural resources
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Leader of the National Liberal Party (PNL, in opposition) Crin Antonescu said late on Thursday that regarding the exploitation of Romania's resources, he agrees with the assertion made by President Basescu, that a decision must be taken.'I agree on these matters with a statement Traian Basescu made in that speech (the swear-in ceremony of Environment Minister Attila Korodi - editor's note), otherwise completely inappropriate. I agree with the assertion ...
Eurobarometer: 96 percent of Romanians think that EU must help developing countries have access to energy
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Ninety-six percent of the Romanians (76 percent totally agree and 20 percent tend to agree) think that the European Union must help developing countries have access to energy and 68 percent of the Romanians think that this assistance brings benefits to the EU too, reveals an Eurobarometer survey that was published by the European Commission on Thursday. The survey, which was performed over March 19-21 on a representative sample of 13,500 people of the ...
Piebalgs: EU energy aid to include gas, exclude biofuels
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Some of the EU’s millions of euros of energy aid to the developing world could be spent on gas projects, EU Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs has told EurActiv. But biofuels, nuclear and coal energy will not be funded. “I cannot exclude that we will be in gas, particularly gas flaring projects,” Piebalgs said Monday (16 April).“We would like to support a very clean energy mix [and] in some cases gas could be supported. At ...
Solar companies warn against 'dangerous' tariff talk
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Unpredictable cuts to Europe's feed-in tariff schemes for solar energy threaten the recession-hit renewable sector with disaster, the head of the solar industry’s business association has told EurActiv. An economic slowdown worsened by strong global competition – particularly from China – has increased reluctance among banks to lend to solar energy firms. That in turn could spell calamity if investor ...
Windfarms don't cause long-term damage to bird populations, study finds
Thursday, April 19, 2012
A major new study has quashed fears that onshore windfarms are causing long-term damage to bird populations, but found new evidence that some species are harmed when windfarms are built. The study by conservationists into the impacts on 10 of the key species of British upland bird, including several suffering serious population declines, concluded that a large majority of species can co-exist or thrive with windfarms once they ...
First Highlights at ENREG ENERGIA REGENERABILA® 25-27.04.2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
The fourth edition of ENREG ENERGIA REGENERABILA®, trade fair on renewable energy and energy efficiency invites you between 25th-27th of April 2012, at Expo Arad International, with innovations from national and international companies. The trade fair brings together also this year, experts and key persons from this areas and develops the common interest that Romania, Hungary and Serbia has for renewable energy and energy efficiency. The program of the event ...
PM Ungureanu: Mining state-owned companies feed on state budget money
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The state-owned companies in the mining segment are 'pumps sucking money out of the state budget,' Prime Minister Mihai Razvan Ungureanu told public radio station Radio Romania Actualitati on Thursday. 'There have been no company with public management over the past twenty years in the mining sector to generate profit. They are feeding on the state budget in order to stay alive, while taking the money out of the Romanian citizens' pockets and boosting prices as ...
Minister Korodi: I shall make public technical viewpoints relating Rosia Montana project in three weeks
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Minister of Environment and Forestry Attila Korodi on Wednesday in an interview with the radio public station assured he will make public his technical points of view regarding the Rosia Montana mining project by the end of April.'(...) three weeks are needed for some research, because for the last three years, namely the one-year mandate of Mr. Nemirschi and the two-year mandate of Mr. Borbely, many things have happened. I need to be updated, to find ...
Roman Copper appoints president in Romania to coordinate Cupru Min privatization
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The Canadian company Roman Copper appointed Joel Hayes as president for Romania to coordinate the acquisition of Cupru Min company, according to a company release sent to Agerpres on Tuesday night.Hayes has been living in Romania since 1995 and working as investment manager of Romanian-American Investment Fund and has successfully concluded four privatizations.Michael Williams, co-founder of the McLeod Williams Corp, a mining company in ...
Iraqi official: Iraq does not oppose Nabucco project, but this is not a priority
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Sheik Humam Baqer Abdul Majeed Hammoodi, who is leading a delegation of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Parliament of Iraq in visit to Bucharest said, on Tuesday, that his country does not oppose the Nabucco project, but that this does not represent, at present, a priority.'Iraq is not against this project, but it is not, currently, a priority. We need our resources for our local needs', underlined the Iraqi official referring to Nabucco gas ...
Romanian Energy Centre to open an office in Brusssels
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The professional association Romanian Energy Centre (CRE) which started its activity on September 2011 will have an office in Brussels beginning with April 25, its aim being to influence the European energy policy so as to promote and support investments in the national integrated energy system both regionally and in Europe, according to a press release. Opening the office in Brussels will be followed on April 26 by a round table on the theme ...
Cernavoda nuke plant two-month power output at over 2.037 mln MWh
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The two units of the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant produced in the first two months of 2012 some 2.037 million MWh of electricity, out of which 1.896 million MWh were delivered to the National Energy System, reveal figures released by company Nuclearelectrica on its website.Thus, Unit 1 produced 1.024 million MWh in the first two months of the year and fed 945.670 million MWh into the power grid, recording an average capacity factor of 101.41 ...
Oil imports increase by 16.9pct
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Romania imported, in the first two months of 2012, a quantity of 686,800 tons of crude oil equivalent, with 99,200 toe (16.9 percent) more than the same period last year, according to centralized data of the National Institute of Statistics (INS). Production of oil rose, in January-February period, to 638,200 toe, being 1.5 percent (9,900 toe) lower compared to that in the first two months of 2011. According to a study of British Petroleum, Romania's proved oil ...
Net coal production increases 15.7 pct
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Romania's net coal production amounted to over 1.085 million tons of oil equivalent during the first two months of 2012, by 15.7 percent (147,300 toe) higher than that during the same time span, last year, National Statistics Institute (INS) data say.Romania's net coal imports totaled 119,400 toe coal, over Jan-Feb, 2012, namely 60.900 toe (104.1 percent) more compared to the imports of the first two months of 2011. According o British Petroleum survey, ...
Methane imports go down 29.4 pct
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Romania has imported 439,600 tons of oil equivalent natural gases, during the first two months of the year, by 29.4 percent (183,400 toe) less than the imports during the same time span in 2011, National Statistics Institute (INS) data inform. The domestic methane production totaled about 1.477 million toe, by 100 toe higher than that of the first two months of last year. According o British Petroleum survey, Romania's natural gas deposits amount to 600 billion ...
Electricity export decreases 81.3 percent in first two months of 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
The export of electricity decreased 81.3 percent in the first two months of 2012 and amounted to 155.6 million KWh, according to the preliminary data released on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).During this period, the electricity resources stood at 11.065 billion KWh, decreasing by 540.9 million KWh (-4.7pct) from the corresponding period of 2011. The Reduction in the electricity resource was mainly caused by a production decline ...
Works on Iasi-Ungheni gas pipeline could get contracted out this summer
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Romania's Minister of Regional Development and Tourism Cristian Petrescu on Thursday met in Chisinau his Moldovan counterpart Marcel Raducan to discuss the implementation of a project for building a gas pipeline between Iasi, Romania, and Ungheni, Moldova. The two officials voiced conviction that works on the pipeline could get contracted out this summer.At the meeting with Moldova's Minister of Regional ...
Romania requests Turkey to continue supporting Nabucco project completion
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Senate's Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Titus Corlatean on Thursday addressed Turkish European Affairs Minister Egemen Bagis the request to continue his support for the completion of Nabucco project, a project which represents 'a special interest in Romania's energy security' and that of the entire region.According to a release, at the meeting between the two officials, Senator Titus Corlatean highlighted the friendship relation connecting the two ...
Romania likely to alter nuclear energy strategy
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Romania could get strategic changes in the nuclear energy field, and investments to be ever higher, Economy Minister's advisor Tudor Serban told the Energy Focus Conference, on Thursday.'There are problems in the nuclear energy field, and countries get their strategies altered. Investments we have to make in safe operation are ever higher. Romania continues its nuclear power strategy, but changes are possible to happen in Romania, too,' said Tudor ...