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Hidroelectrica Announces Electricity Price Adjustment Starting April 1, 2025
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Hidroelectrica, Romania’s leading electricity producer and supplier, and the cheapest provider so far in our country, informed its current and future customers that, starting April 1, 2025, it will apply an adjustment to the active electricity price for the energy supplied to its customers. According to Profit.ro, Hidroelectrica will increase the price of active energy by 60%, starting with April ...
E.ON and Continental Automotive Complete Construction of a Solar Power Plant in Timisoara
Thursday, February 27, 2025
E.ON Energie Romania and Continental Automotive, one of the largest developers and manufacturers of innovative automotive systems, have recently completed the construction of a solar power plant in Timisoara. The project involved E.ON delivering a turnkey solar system consisting of 1,440 panels, installed on the roofs of Continental Automotive’s production halls in ...
Minister Burduja: Romania's US-backed nuclear power projects should be kept out of election row
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Romanian nuclear power projects backed by U.S. companies should not be affected by recent criticism from members of President Donald Trump's administration over a cancelled election, Romania's energy minister said. Romania's top ...
Drilling for Black Sea offshore gas project to start in a matter of weeks
Thursday, February 27, 2025
In just a few weeks, the massive semi-submersible drilling rig Transocean Barents known as the Mighty Barents will travel from its current anchorage location in Constanta Port 160 kilometers out to sea, to start drilling the 10 gas wells inside the Neptun Deep perimeter, Reuters reports. Considered one of the European Union's most significant gas deposits, the project is expected to double Romania's production and potentially turn it into a net exporter at a time when ...
Gov't to initiate within short regulatory act on establishment of energy communities
Thursday, February 27, 2025
The public consultation process on the project regarding the establishment of energy communities ended a few days ago, and the observations received will be integrated into the final form of the regulatory act which will be initiated in the next period by the government, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja announced on Tuesday."As early as in the spring of last year, we have set up a working group tasked precisely with the preparation of this initiative, and ...
EnergyMin: Neptun Deep project will consolidate Romania's position at the forefront of gas producers in the EU
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Romania is already at the forefront of gas producers in the EU, and the Neptun Deep project will strengthen this position, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja wrote on his Facebook page on Sunday.According to the minister, "Romania has a historic opportunity to play an important role if it defends the direction it has carefully built over the decades. And this depends on each one of us. We are already at the forefront of gas producers in the EU, and the Neptun ...
Coal production down 14.2 pct in 2024, imports down 1 pct in 2024
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Romania's coal production exceeded 1.924 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe) in 2024, 14.2% lower (minus 319,700 toe) than in 2023, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Imports of coal amounted to 195,600 toe in the mentioned period, down by 1,900 toe (minus 1%) compared to the previous year.Both the dynamics of coal production and imports are expected to decrease until 2027, as other energy production ...
Romania maintains its assessment that by 2032 it will double its electricity production
Thursday, February 27, 2025
Romania maintains its assessment that by 2032 it will double its electricity production and become a major energy exporter in the region, however, for this to happen, an intelligent energy transition is needed, one that uses all the country's sources and resources to generate as much energy as possible, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja wrote on his Facebook page on Friday.According to the minister, Romania needs as much secure, ...
Minister Burduja: No risk for Romanians to be left without gas or electricity supplies
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The assessment of energy production capacities and of consumption coverage during this frosty spell has shown that there is no risk for Romanians to be left without gas or electricity supplies, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja declared on Tuesday at the end of a Winter Command meeting."We called a Winter Command meeting today to assess the state of the National Power System, the condition of the networks, the possible issues in the field, also the ...
Romania's crude oil production down 4.3 pct in 2024, imports up 12.3 pct
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Romania produced nearly 2.675 million tonnes of crude oil equivalent (toe) of oil in 2024, 120,500 toe less (-4.3%) than in the previous year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Last year, gas imports totaled 8.277 million toe, 905,000 toe more than in 2023 (+12.3%).According to the latest Energy Balance Forecast, published by the National Commission for Strategy and Prognosis (CNSP), the production of ...
Chimcomplex launches tender for construction of high-efficiency gas-fired cogeneration plant
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Chimcomplex Borzesti has launched the tender for the construction of a high-efficiency gas-fired cogeneration plant in Ramnicu Valcea, estimated at 203.576 million RON.The project is financed through the National Recovery and Resilience Plan - Pillar I. Green Transition - Component 6. Energy - Investment Measure 3 - Development of flexible and high-efficiency gas-fired production capacities for the cogeneration of electricity and heat (CHP) in the district ...
Hidroelectrica Completes Major Maintenance Stage at Portile de Fier
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Hidroelectrica announces the completion of a major stage in the maintenance work on hydroaggregate No. 1 at the Portile de Fier I/Iron Gates Hydroelectric Power Plant. The project, initiated in July 2023, involved the complete dismantling of the hydroaggregate, transporting the components to the UCMH factory in Resita for expertise and repairs, followed by reassembly and testing of the rotor-turbine assembly at the ...
Energy minister: Neptun Deep offshore gas project is past 33 pct completion milestone
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The Neptun Deep offshore gas project is already ahead of schedule and past a 33% completion milestone, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja announced on Friday in a Facebook post."Today I visited the Transocean Barents drilling rig in the Port of Constanta, a technological marvel Romania relies on for the Black Sea gas extraction through the Neptun Deep project - Romania's most important energy project after the completion of Cernavoda nuclear power ...
Final electricity consumption in Romania increases by 1.8pct in 2024
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Final electricity consumption in Romania in 2024 was up 1.8% over 2023, amid an increase in household consumption by 2.7% and in commercial electricity consumption by 1.6%, while public lighting decreased by 6.7%, data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS) show. In 2024 the main primary energy sources totalled 32.713 million tons of oil equivalent (toe), down 27,900 toe from January 1 - December 31, ...
Energy efficiency programme to be financed through Romanian-Swiss Cooperation Programme
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The "Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy" programme, financed under the Swiss-Romanian Cooperation Programme and intended for both municipalities and smaller and disadvantaged communities, was launched on last Thursday in the presence of the Minister of Development, Cseke Attila."Through this programme, we support environmental protection and better energy efficiency," the minister said, according to a press release.The programme will ...
ELCEN launches procurement procedure for planned Energy District feasibility study
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Bucharest power and heat company ELCEN has launched the procurement procedure for the feasibility study for the planned Energy District, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja announced on Facebook on Thursday."Last spring I first told you about the Energy District, an ambitious urban project which involves the construction of a compound in the Grozavesti area to accommodate the headquarters of the Energy Ministry and of the companies under its ...
Romania wants to restart coal-fired power plants, but won’t give up climate neutrality target
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Romania embarked on the Green Deal without analysing the phasing of coal-fired power plant closures “fairly enough”. That is why the government plans to ask the European Commission for permission to extend the deadline beyond 2030, said Casian Nitulescu, secretary of state at the energy ministry. “On the Green Deal versus Smart Deal, we have indeed embarked on a rather complicated and sensitive ...
Energy Minister asks Rompetrol for a new investment plan
Thursday, February 20, 2025
Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja has asked Rompetrol to implement a comprehensive and well-structured investment plan to increase safety. The Energy chief’s reaction comes after a fire broke out in the Mild Hydrocracking (MHC) facility at Petromidia on Friday morning, even though the refinery’s operational activity was not ...
Delgaz Grid starts modernization works at Roman transformer station, project worth 10 mln. euro
Thursday, February 20, 2025
The distribution company Delgaz Grid began in the fourth quarter of 2024, together with its partner ETHGroup, the modernization works at the Roman Laminor transformer station, through an investment of over 51 million lei including VAT (around 10 million euros) from which over 36,000 customers from Roman municipality and 111 other localities in the surrounding area will benefit. After the ...
Record-high difference between domestic and European gas spot price
Thursday, February 13, 2025
The persisting uncertainty on the Romanian gas market caused transactions to be carried out almost exclusively on the spot market, which builds up the risk of gas price increases at the slightest variation in demand; the difference between the domestic spot price of gas and European prices already hit an all-time high, president of the Smart Energy Association (AEI) Dumitru Chisalita argues.In a statement on Tuesday he explains that with the chilly ...