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Energy Minister: We intend to extend deadlines for coal plant exploitation
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Romania will request the European Commission to extend by 2-3 years the exploitation deadline for coal plants, because it cannot replace them at present, said energy minister Sebastian Burduja on last Thursday. “We intend to extend deadlines for coal plant exploitation. We do not have another variant in the context in which Romania must be a safe energy surce ...
1 MW solar power station on drug maker Terapia's platform to become operational
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The installation of a 1 MW state-of-the-art solar power station on the platform of the Cluj Napoca-based pharmaceutical company Terapia has been finalized, with the new energy facility expected to reduce conventional energy consumption by 10-15% and to decrease carbon emissions by 746.8 tons of CO2 equivalent per year, the company said in a release.The project carried out by Energobit and co-financed through the National Recovery and Resilience ...
Burduja: About 4,000 GWh lost in hydropower in 2024, 2% of energy production, from prosumers
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Hydroelectric power production fell last year by about 4,000 GWh due to drought, but there was an increase in photovoltaic energy, and prosumers provided 2% of all electricity production, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja announced on Tuesday."In terms of nuclear energy, we are standing at similar figures [to those of 2023, editor's note], we count on and we have counted on the two nuclear reactors at Cernavoda [Nuclear Power Plant] and they are ...
Environment Ministry wants to prolong period of implementation of photovoltaic greenhouses programme
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The implementation period of projects under the "Casa Verde Photovoltaice 2023" programme [Photovoltaic Greenhouses 2023 - editors note] will be extended, the Ministry of Environment, Waters and Forests (MMAP) informs on Tuesday."The minister of environment, waters and forests, Mircea Fechet, signed today the draft amendment to the Financing Guide for the Casa Verde Photovoltaice 2023 programme, in order to support the citizens who benefit ...
Fiscal Authority applies discriminatory treatment for purchase of storage batteries, says prosumers association
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The Association of Prosumers and Energy Communities in Romania (APCE) draws attention to the discriminatory tax treatment applied by the National Agency for Fiscal Administration (ANAF) for the purchase of storage batteries by prosumers."The contradictory decisions of ANAF agencies in different counties create confusion and contradict the law. Since 2024, the VAT for photovoltaic systems including batteries is 9%. However, today the law is ...
Head of Smart Energy Association: We have the price offers for the period until April 1
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Gas and electricity supply contracts are mostly valid or have prices valid until March 31, 2025, so gas price offers have started to appear after this date, claims the head of the Smart Energy Association (AEI), Dumitru Chisalita."Even if, according to the current legislation, it would be necessary to offer and draw up new sales-purchase contracts, suppliers are not rushing to submit offers. Of course, they also have many unknowns ...
Transelectrica completes first invesment with funds from Modernisation Fund
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The National Electricity Transmission Company Transelectrica has completed the investment regarding the implementation of a metering and management system for electricity measurement data on the wholesale market, with total financing for the entire project amounting to 88.806 million RON, according to a press release sent on Monday.According to the same source, the project implementation period is until May 2027.Company ...
EnergyMin: I am confident that this year we will mark a first and inaugurate Rastolita hydroelectric plant
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The completion of hydroelectric plants initiated before 1989 is one of the priorities of the Ministry of Energy, and I am confident that this year we will mark a premiere by inaugurating the Rastolita Hydroelectric Plant, the first one completed after more than 34 years, Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja said."One of the priorities of the Ministry of Energy is the completion of hydroelectric plants started before 1989. Blocked for decades by ...
CNSP: Romania's electricity and heat production to drop 2 pct this year
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Romania's electricity and heat production is expected to decrease by 2% this year compared to 2024, but is then estimated to progressively go up in the next three years, according to the autumn version of the 2024-2028 Outlook Report of the National Strategy and Forecast Commission (CNSP).Thus, electricity and heat energy production is expected to increase 1.4% in 2026; 1.5% in 2027; and 1.3% in 2028.Overall, according ...
Arad local authories complete authorization formalities for the largest photovoltaic park in Europe
Thursday, January 16, 2025
The rural town halls of the Arad rural towns of Pilu and Graniceri have completed all procedures and issued all necessary authorizations for the construction of the largest photovoltaic park in Europe, a private investment estimated at 800 million euros that will be made on a total area of over 1,000 hectares.The mayor of Graniceri rural town, Petru Claudiu Batrinut, told AGERPRES on Thursday that the last documents were issued in December, ...
Romgaz's first offers for small domestic and non-domestic consumers could be available in 2025
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Romgaz is preparing to become a supplier of natural gas and if the acquisition and implementation procedures will be carried out according to the established schedule, the first offers for small domestic and non-domestic consumers will be available in 2025, the Ministry of Energy announced on Thursday."The Ministry of Energy welcomes the strategic initiative of Romgaz, Romania's flagship energy company, to expand its activity to supply natural ...
Mintia, Europe's largest gas-fired power plant, to be fully completed in 2026
Thursday, January 16, 2025
Mintia, the largest gas-fired power plant in Europe, will be fully completed in 2026, and by the end of this year at least 1,000 MW of capacity should be already connected to the grid, Energy Minister Sebastian Burduja told a press conference on Thursday."My favorite watchword this year is: investments, investments, investments. If we want Romanians to have safe, accessible and clean energy, we must make investments. Every megawatt we add to the ...
Reuters: Austria's OMV agrees to supply Romanian gas to Germany, sources say
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Austria's OMV has struck a deal to supply Germany's Uniper with gas from its Black Sea project from 2027, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters, as Europe seeks new ways to boost energy security after cutting ties with Russia. The five-year deal for 15 terawatt hours of natural gas from the Beptun Deep ...
R.Power secures grant for 254MWh Romania BESS
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Developer and IPP R.Power has received €15 million (US$15.6 million) in non-reimbursable state financing to build a 2-hour BESS project in Romania, https://www.energy-storage.news/ informs. The independent power producer (IPP) announced the grant on business networking site LinkedIn last week (3 January), saying the RON74.6 million funding from the Ministry of Energy would go towards its first ...
Cold weather and exports to Moldova push up gas prices on Romania’s spot market
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The spot price of natural gas on the Romanian Commodity Exchange (BRM) jumped by 66% y/y to RON 250 (EUR 50) per MWh at the beginning of this year despite the low consumption during the holiday period, according to data presented ...
AEI's Chisalita: Energy market liberalisation, only option for Romania
Thursday, January 9, 2025
The only option for Romania is the liberalisation of the energy market as of April 1, along with market preparation, as much as time allows it, Intelligent Energy Association (AEI) president Dumitru Chisalita said in a statement regarding the expiration of the price caps for gas and electricity on March 31, 2025.According to him, the biggest challenge of the year is related to the fact that in March, the price caps for gas and electricity are set to expire.In ...
Romania's production of crude oil down 3.9 pct, imports up 4.9 pct in first 10 months of 2024
Thursday, January 9, 2025
In the first ten months of 2024, Romania produced 2.246 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), down 92,200 toe (-3.9%) than in the same period of the previous year, according to data centralized by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Imports of crude oil totaled 6.665 million toe during the period, 313,200 toe more than in January-November 2023 (+4.9%).According to the latest Energy Balance Forecast, published by the National ...
South Korea wins €1.9 billion nuclear renovation deal in Romania
Thursday, January 9, 2025
* South Korea steps into nuclear renovation market with Cernavoda project South Korea has clinched a €1.9 billion ($2 billion) contract to renovate a nuclear power plant in Romania, marking a pivotal achievement in its growing presence in the global nuclear energy market. This project, the first overseas nuclear reactor refurbishment awarded to South Korean companies, follows major nuclear power ...
Nuclearelectrica to advance refurbishment of Cernavoda NPP Unit 1 under EUR 1.9 billion estimated investment
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Nuclearelectrica and the international consortium Candu Energy Inc., an AtkinsRéalis company, Ansaldo Nucleare, Canadian Commercial Corporation and Korea Hydro & Nuclear Power Co ceremonially signed the Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) contract for the advancement of Cernavoda Nuclear Power Plant (NPP) Unit 1 refurbishment, estimated value is EUR 1.9 billion, according to a Nuclearelectrica press release.Nuclearelectrica says in the press release ...
Romania targets an extra 2,500 MW in the energy system in 2025
Thursday, January 9, 2025
Romania targets 2,500 new MW in the energy system in 2025, with investments such as Iernut, Mintia, Rastolita, Navodari and private projects co-financed through the PNRR, but the energy must be “safe, affordable and as clean as possible”, the Ministry of Energy said in a statement. “Energy is the heart of the economy. Without safe and cheap energy, there is no decent standard of living and no economic development. ...