RSS
Romania absolute leader of Central and Eastern Europe as regards wind energy
Romania has a leading position in Central and Eastern Europe as regards the wind energy production, a report of the programme for sustainable leadeship, belonging to the Cambridge University and the Regional Centre for research in the domain of energy policy (REKK) from the Corvinus University in Budapest.
The document that covers data about Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary was presented in Sofia, within the international conference " Policies for green economic growth in the Balkans" Almost a quarter of the wind units in the new member states of the EU are situated on Romanian territory, the document says. The southern=western part of the country has the best potential for wind production, and the main obstacle for building units is the limited capacity of the electricity transport system. Over the last two years the installed capacities grew at least ten times. There were licences for connection to the national grid of capacities of 17,000 Megewatts as the grid would stand only 3,300 megawatt ( out of which 1,000 megawatt were already connected), the report says.
The authors of the report state that the Southern-western Romania offers the best conditions as regards the photovoltaic solar energy. Romanian potential in this domain is higher than that of the Czech Republic and Hungary and even that of Bulgaria, situated in the south. The national plan of action regarding the energies out of renewable resources includes a grwoth of the photovoltaic energy share up to 260 megawatt in 2020. This objective is conservative enough, and out this reason, there is no possibility that in Romania be recorded a boom of energy from photovoltaic sources, as happened in the Czech Republic.
In 2010, the share of energies from renewable resources in Romania was of 32.3% especially due to the high number of hydropower stations, such as the fact that 2010 was the best year hydrologically speaking. The national plan for action regarding renewable energy in 2010 revised the objective for the share of these energies forn 2020 included in the Energy Stategy of 2007, increasing it from 38% to 42.26%. The increase was a proof of the commitmennt of the government to go on with the development of this sector.