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Romania's Energy Strategy 2016-2020: Romania's electricity to use various primary energy sources
Competitiveness and modernisation in Romania's electricity generation sector could be approached by gathering the current producers that use various primary energy sources, reads a report by an electricity working group related to Romania's Energy Strategy 2016-2020, with an eye to 2050 posted for public debate on the website of the Energy Ministry.
"A possible approach of securing competitiveness, sustainability and modernisation of the generation sector may be gathering in big companies the various producers that use different primary energy sources - coal, natural gas, hydropower, and renewable energy resources. Nevertheless, the producers using just one source of energy should first of all correctly compute their operational and personnel costs to be able to operate efficiently in a limited time slot in a given order of precedence. Efficiency could be improved both inside integrated companies and outside them based on access against an order of precedence," says the report.
The reports adds that the current circumstances, with each producer using only one kind of primary energy source, the producers using natural gas and coal, both expensive fuels, might not become profitable.
"The electricity generating facilities that use fire coal and natural gas are necessary in order to ensure energy security. The current mix allowed for difficulties to be overcome. The problem remains that the electricity mix is made up via several companies that use only one kind of fuel in a competitive market. Electricity providers are the ones to do the aggregation, and they obviously seek the least expensive electricity. That makes electricity generated from natural gas and coal to be excluded from their preferences. Given the circumstances, there is a risk of the electricity producers using preponderantly such fuels failing to gain enough working hours in order to become profitable," the report says.
The Energy Ministry has put up for public debate all the reports of the working group related to Romania's Energy Strategy 2016-2030 with an eye to 2050; anyone interested may file by May 31, 2016, suggestions, opinions and recommendations using a form to be downloaded from the website of the Energy Ministry, the Energy Strategy section. They will be taken into consideration for drawing up an integrated quality analysis of the Romanian energy sector.
The final strategy document is expected out around September 15, 2016.