Electrica, the Romanian energy supply and distribution company, is planning to invest around 715 million euro until 2018, out of which 121 million this year alone, Mediafax reports. The general director of the company, Ion Rosca declared “ On the one hand important investments in the distribution sector are needed. ...more »

The two units at the Cernavoda nuclear-power plant put out 6.566 million MWh worth of electricity in the first seven months of 2015, 6.043 million MWH of which were fed into the national electricity grid of Romania, according to data posted on th...more »

Three Chinese consortiums have qualified to continue the discussions on starting the project of the hydroelectric power plant in Tarniţa, Cluj County.  The list of pre-qualified investors, after considering the pre-qualification documents c...more »

Three Romanian projects for gas supplies have been declared priority in the second high-level ministerial meeting in the East South Central Europe Gas Connectivity held in the city Dubrovnik, Croatia, on 9-10 July informs the Ministry of Energy. The...more »

Dentons advised the oil and gas company Petroceltic on the purchase of equity in two Black Sea exploration blocks (40% in EX-27 Muridava Block previously held by a subsidiary of Sterling Resources and 30% in the EX-28 Est Cobalcescu Block previously held by a subsidiary of Beach Energy), in the Romanian sector of the Black Sea. ...more »

The AGRI gas project, as a direct energy transport road from the Caspian Sea right to EU's Franco-German industrial core, between Energy producer Azerbaidjan, Georgia and Romania, is seen as a viable project. The feasibility study for AGRI project, that aims to transport gas from the Caspian region, on the territory of Azerbaijan and Georgia, crossing the Black Sea by vessels and involving the construction of two liquefaction terminals (on the Georgian Black Sea coast) and regasification (on the Romanian Black Sea coast ) was presented in an Inter-ministerial meeting that took place on June 22 in Bucharest. ...more »

Law 122/2015 for the approval of some measures for promoting electricity from renewable energy sources and also for amending and supplementing some normative acts was published in the Official Gazette. The purpose of this law is to revitalize the renewable energy market and support the companies owning projects from renewable energy sources with capacities smaller than 3 MW by enabling them the possibility to sign bilateral agreements....more »

Due to the nineteen ongoing processes, the exit from insolvency for Hidroelectrica is not possible says Remus Borza, the Director General of the energy producer. "The processes progressing very slowly. It will not come out of insolvency for sure this year. Hopefully next year," said Borza....more »

The National Authority for Energy Regulation (ANRE) has published on its website the monitoring report of the support scheme for promotion of cogeneration based on thermo energy demand in the first quarter of 2015, showing that the total value of contributions invoiced to consumers is lowered by 28 percent. From the comparison of 2014 to 2013 the report observed that the total amount of contributions invoiced consumers and suppliers exporters fell mainly due to lower contribution amount for cogeneration in the second half of 2014, compared to 2013....more »

The investment agreement with the Chinese company China General Nuclear Power Corporation, the investor selected for the development of units 3 and 4 at CNE Cernavoda, could be finalized by the end of the year says Energy Minister Andrei Gerea .Nuclearelectrica and China General Nuclear Power Corporation signed last year a letter of intent to proceed. The project for units 3 and 4 was evaluated in October last year, to EUR 6.45 billion, but the feasibility study which determined the investment required will be reviewed, according to Agerpres. The agreement between the two companies should have been signed in December last year, but the project is out of the schedule originally announced....more »