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Saint-Gobain and ENGIE start works at largest on-site solar park in Romania
Thursday, May 18, 2023
Saint-Gobain and ENGIE Romania announce the start of the construction of the largest on-site photovoltaic park in Romania. Located on the land of the Saint-Gobain glass factory in C?l?ra?i, on an area of 14 hectares, the photovoltaic panel system will be intended for the production of renewable energy within the industrial site, the resulting production will be used 100% for ...
HPI Wind gets USAID’s MESA support for large-scale wind power generation in Moldova
Thursday, May 18, 2023
A special purpose company set up in 2022, HPI Wind was selected to receive support for the fundraising process under the USAID-funded Moldova Energy Security Activity (MESA), the company announced. In the past year, HPI Wind has developed a 200MW portfolio of top-notch wind energy projects across the nation, 105MW of which have already attained grid exclusivity. With this pipeline in place, HPI Wind’s full focus now is on securing funding to further ...
PM Ciuca about Romania's openness to analysing, continuing , strengthening Korean presence in nuclear power
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Romania's Prime Minister Nicolae Ciuca said on Wednesday that in his conversation with his South Korean counterpart Han Duck-Soo he expressed Romania's openness to analysing, continuing and strengthening the Korean presence in the field of nuclear power."I reiterated my support for increasing South Korean green field investment projects. I want to express my hope that we will see new South Korean investment projects in Romania also as a result of high-level ...
Romania's transition to green energy, a €20 billion financing opportunity for banks
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Romania’s transition to green energy represents for the banks and opportunity for financing of 20 billion euro, according to an analysis made by a management consultancy company. The consultancy company McKinskey & Company Romania estimates the potential of the green energy market (solar panels, heat pumps, insulation) to over 30 billion euro until 2040.At present, the Romanian state is ...
Control room simulator of first small modular reactor in Romania, inaugurated by UPB and Nuclearelectrica
Thursday, May 11, 2023
The Polytechnic University of Bucharest (UPB) and Nuclearelectrica will launch, on Friday, in an event that will take place in the Aula Magna of the higher education institution, the first Energy Exploration Center (E2 Center) in Europe, which houses the control room simulator of the small modular reactor (SMR) NuScale."The E2 Center, developed as part of the Foundational Infrastructure for Responsible Use of Small Modular Reactor Technology (FIRST) program, ...
Photon Energy commissions two power plants with total capacity of 9.5 MWp in Romania
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Photon Energy N.V. announces that Photon Energy Engineering Romania S.R.L. – the Group’s Romanian subsidiary dedicated to engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) services – has completed and grid-connected another two solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in its Romanian market. The plants have a combined generation capacity of 9.5 Mwp, ...
Romania continues to be a net exporter of electricity after the first quarter of 2023
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Romania continues to be a net exporter of electricity in 2023, due to the reduction of consumption and resources good for hydro power stations and wind turbines which compensate the drop in the production of the stations on coal. The total production of electricity of Romania was, in January and February 2023 of over 10 TWh and the net consumption was almost 8.9 TWh according to the data of ...
Romania re-emerges as hot solar destination but not without obstacles
Thursday, May 11, 2023
After experiencing a burst of solar installations almost a decade ago, Romania is now said to be at the start of a new wave of photovoltaic (PV) capacity deployment, https://renewablesnow.com/ informs. Last week, more than 100 ...
Official Laszlo Borbely: Romania is falling behind Europe in terms of municipal waste recycling
Thursday, May 11, 2023
The coordinator of the Department for Sustainable Development of Romania's Government, Laszlo Borbely said on Thursday, at the inauguration of the PET Recycling Team Targu Mures plant, that such an investment is extremely useful, especially since Romania is falling behind Europe in terms of municipal waste recycling, with only 11.3pct compared to the European Union average of over 40pct."I will tell you two data which prove that an investment ...
Romania participates in European household energy saving research project
Thursday, May 11, 2023
Romanian consumers are invited to participate, starting on May 4, in a European campaign aimed at determining the best ways to render households energy efficient through cost-free measures, the Romanian Energy Poverty Observatory (ORSE) announced in a release.The campaign unfolds in six countries - Norway, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey and Romania - through the ENCHANT European research project financed under the EU's research and innovation program ...
OMV Petrom: We are targeting a 30% reduction in emissions by 2030 compared to 2019
Thursday, May 4, 2023
The intensity of the carbon dioxide emissions of our operations dropped last year by approximately 11% to the level of 2019, and until 2030 the company aims at a reduction of 30%, stated Christian Verchere, the general manager of OMV Petrom.According to the press release, OMV Petrom published the Report for Sustainability for 2022. This offers an overview of the economic, environmental and ...
Romgaz made payments of 7.7 billion lei to the Government in 2022
Thursday, May 4, 2023
The National Society for Natural Gas Romgaz made payments to the government of Romania last year worth 7,705 billion lei, according to a report sent on Thursday to the Stock Exchange Bucharest.According to the quoted source, in 2022, the taxes on income, for the production or profits of the commercial societies with the exception of taxes on consumption, such as tax on added value, tax on ...
Transgaz: Over 3.2 billion euros investments in development of National Gas Transport System in next 10 yrs
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Transgaz's investment programme for the development of the National Transport System (NTS) in the next decade is estimated at over 3.2 billion euros, the company informs in a statement.The programme includes investments for the strategic and sustainable development of the natural gas transport infrastructure in Romania and its compliance with the requirements of European regulations regarding the European Green Agreement and decarbonization.If in ...
Natural gas distribution networks are prepared for the transition to hydrogen
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Natural gas distribution networks can be adapted to use a mixture of methane and hydrogen, as is already happening in Germany, for example. The Delgaz Grid company will start, at the beginning of May, a pilot project through which it will test the resistance of the networks and the interest of customers in Media? for this energy source. “We are ready to convert a large part of our networks to ...
Regional integration of the energy infrastructures will provide security and sustainability
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Every European country should begin working on new infrastructures to use hydrogen and to integrate the national grids into a regional energy structure, said Teodora Georgieva, Executive Officer of Gas Interconnector Greece-Bulgaria (ICGB). ”Hydrogen is ...
Camera di Commercio Italiana per la Romania (CCIpR) organizes Energy Forum – Renewables
Thursday, May 4, 2023
On Thursday, May 11, 2023, the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania (CCIpR) invites you to the Courtyard Bucharest Floreasca, for a forward-looking perspective into Romania’s energy transition roadmap and the immediate plans emerging from the national “energy ...
Ember: Europe’s power system went over winter due to low demand and renewables
Thursday, May 4, 2023
Europe’s power system weathered a turbulent winter with the help of reduced demand combined with record renewable generation. A coal ‘comeback’ never materialised, as EU coal power fell compared to last Winter, a new Ember study reveals. ”As Europe headed towards the end of 2022, the ongoing gas crisis combined with low nuclear and hydro output led to concerns about how countries ...
EY Energy Consumer Confidence Index: Wavering consumer confidence could stall the energy transition, new index finds
Thursday, May 4, 2023
* As the impact of the energy transition hits home, consumer confidence drops, and lower-income demographics feel left behind Energy transition success hinges on building consumer confidence: cross-sector, cross-government collaboration required, ...
Commission calls on CROATIA to remove restrictions on export of gas and on ROMANIA to remove restrictions on export of electricity
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The European Commission decided to open an infringement procedure by sending a letter of formal notice ...
Moldova-Ukraine-Romania Electricity Market Integration initiative is aimed at increasing electricity flows
Thursday, April 27, 2023
The coupling of the Romanian, Moldovan and Ukrainian markets is intended to increase electricity flows as well as to develop market monitoring capacities through regional cooperation and, in the longer run, to help establish national capacity markets or a sub-regional capacity market to ensure the security of power supplies, the National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) said in a release.The launch of the Moldova-Ukraine-Romania Electricity ...