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Romgaz prepares to exploit the 250 Noul Sasesc well, in Sibiu county
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Romgaz is allocating over 11 million RON for provisional preparatory works, drilling and production tests at the 250 Noul Sacesc exploitation well, according to an announcement published on the public tender website.The contract, with an estimated value of 11.213 million RON, will be awarded through an open tender, based on the lowest price criterion."The well shall be located in the outside of built-up areas of Laslea commune, Sibiu county. The ...
Romania's gas imports down 19.2pct in the first 9 months of 2022; production down 4.3pct
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Romania imported, in the first nine months of 2022, a quantity of usable natural gas of 1.666 million tonne of oil equivalent (toe), 19.2pct (-396,200 toe) less than in the same period last year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).In the mentioned period, the domestic production of natural gas was almost 5.17 million toe, by 4.3pct (233,100 toe) below the one registered in the first nine months of 2021.The ...
Romanian&Hungarian energy regulatory authorities conclude cooperation agreement
Thursday, December 8, 2022
The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) and the Hungarian Office for Energy and Public Utilities (MEKH) signed a cooperation agreement to manage the energy crisis and promote security of supply, ANRE informs on Friday."Considering the energy crisis, the need for security of supply has increased significantly in recent months, and the importance of international cooperation for this has also increased. The cooperation agreement ...
Hidroelectrica steps in and helps Moldova with 100MW
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Romanian hydropower company Hidroelectrica will deliver electricity to Moldova under a contract providing 100MW supply over the first 11 days of December, followed by 20MW afterwards, Moldova's state-owned energy trader Energocom announced on its Facebook page. The volume of electricity purchased under bilateral contracts from Romanian suppliers ...
Romania to build new radioactive waste repositories
Thursday, December 8, 2022
The National Nuclear Power Company (SNN) wants to pay up to RON 8.34 million, excluding VAT, to find out what issues relevant to environmental protection it will have to develop in the Environmental Impact Report for the refurbishment project of Unit 1 at the Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant and the expansion of the Interim Spent Fuel Storage Facility (ISFSF), ...
Rompetrol, 20 years of activity in the Republic of Moldova
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Rompetrol Moldova, part of the KMG International Group, is celebrating 20 years since establishment. During these years it consolidated its presence in the country and became the most important supplier of fuels at national level. Currently, the company has over 1,000 employees, with a total contribution to the state budget of the Republic of Moldova of over 733 million dollars over its 20 years of ...
Transelectrica planning 52 ml RON worth of investments to increase power supply security in south Bucharest
Thursday, December 8, 2022
The national electricity transmission company Transelectrica earmarks 51.645 million RON for works aimed at increasing the power supply security at the 400/220/110/10 kV Bucharest South transformer substation, the company announced on the public procurement website.The purpose of the investment is to improve the quality of the electricity transmission service and increase safety and redundancy in the supply of network users, scale up ...
Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary agree to boost gas grid interconnections
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Greece, Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary agreed on last Thursday to upgrade the interconnection and transport capacity of their gas grids, part of their long-standing efforts to diversify gas sources and boost their role in Europe's energy supply chain, Reuters reports. In 2016, the four countries agreed to develop the necessary infrastructure for the realisation of the so-called Vertical Gas Corridor, which will enable bidirectional gas ...
Romania becomes net gas exporter
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Romania switched to net gas exports in late November for the first time in nearly a year and a half, as weak demand allowed it to balance on domestic production and storage alone, https://www.argusmedia.com/ ...
How Romania is attempting to misuse REPowerEU funds
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Plans to revive a series of old hydroelectric projects in Romania have angered environmental campaigners, https://emerging-europe.com/ informs. Romania’s government plans to use funds allocated under the REPowerEU package to ...
Romania allows prosumers to install photovoltaic panels in several locations
Thursday, December 8, 2022
The Government of Romania adopted an executive order to make it easier for prosumers to connect solar panels to the distribution grid and allow them to consume the output in locations other than where they installed their photovoltaic facility, ...
Romania to seal memorandum for green energy transport with Azerbaijan and Georgia
Thursday, December 8, 2022
Romanian foreign affairs minister Bogdan Aurescu tackled recently with his Azeri counterpart Jeyhun Bayramov the latest details related to the green electricity cable to link the two countries and stretch to Hungary as well. The two met in Poland at Lodz on the occasion of the OSCE ministerial council. The memorandum between the four ...
Ministry of Energy's Popescu: Closing coal capacities cannot be done without having at least gas investments
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The closing of the coal capacities cannot be done without having at least the gas investments that we envisaged, Elena Popescu, with Ministry of Energy's General Directorate of Energy Policies and Green Deal, told a Monday's specialized event."We are not completely replacing coal with gas. We have 1,300 MW and we are closing 4,950 MW by 2,030. So it is a totally unjustified comparison. What are we replacing? We are closing coal and replacing it with some gas ...
E.ON Romania delivers 68 turnkey photovoltaic plants worth over 11 million euros
Thursday, December 1, 2022
More than 60 companies have received 68 turnkey photovoltaic power plants delivered by E.ON Energie Romania, with an annual energy production of 1,400 MWh and investments of over 11 million euros, informs the energy supplier in a press release sent on Monday.The number of projects implemented by September is almost double compared to the whole of last year, adds E.ON.The 68 turnkey photovoltaic plants completed and delivered for more than 60 partner ...
Electricity import up 513 GWh in 2021, export up 1,106 GWh
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The electricity import increased in 2021 by 513 GWh compared to the previous year, and the export increased by 1,106 GWh (+23pct) compared to 2020, when it was 4,809 GWh, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).The net electricity production (representing the gross production from which the consumption used for the production of electricity and thermal energy is subtracted) was 5,4636 GWh, higher by 2,712 GWh than in ...
EnerMin: Regulation proposed by European Commission on gas market leads to price increases, not price capping
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The recently proposed regulation by the European Commission for the correction of the price of natural gas represents rather an invitation to price increases, and not a capping mechanism, wrote on Facebook the Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu, who participated on Thursday in the extraordinary meeting of the TTE - Energy Council, organized in Brussels, in the context of discussions at the European level on the management of the effects of the energy ...
Romania will cope with winter without any major energy issues
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Romania will cope with winter this year without any major problem in its energy system, senior official with the Ministry of Energy George Niculescu said on last Thursday, adding that natural gas stockpiles are monitored daily."Another very important subject in this period is energy security. There is a lot of talk about this winter, about what problems we will face this winter. I see all kinds of say fatalistic opinions that we will have problems... The ...
53MW PV park is going online in southern Romania
Thursday, December 1, 2022
A 53MWp photovoltaic park developed in southern Romania, at Frasinet in ...
Enel's Romanian assets to be sold quickly for EUR 1.9 bln
Thursday, December 1, 2022
The total value of the three branches that the Italian group Enel is going to sell in Romania (electricity distribution, supply and green power generation) is estimated at a combined EUR 1.8 - 1.9 bln, and the sale is expected to be completed in early 2023 at the latest in April, according to information floated ...
Bulgarian PV equipment supplier AmonRa raises 1.6 mln euro in IPO to boost SEE expansion
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Bulgarian solar photovoltaic (PV) equipment supplier AmonRa Energy [BUL:AMO1] said on Wednesday it raised over 3.1 million levs ($1.64 million/1.58 million euro) in an initial public offering (IPO) on the BEAM growth segment of the Sofia bourse. The funds will help the company grab a larger share of the renewable energy market in the Balkans, with some of the capital to be channelled to build new ...