Razvan Nicolescu, the Minister Delegate for Energy, today notified Romania’s Anticorruption Directorate (DNA) on loss of 7 million euro of the Romanian Authority for Nuclear Activities (RAAN) revealed by a report of the ministerial control body from August 19 on RAAN’s activity and contracts for coal processing in 2009-2013, the Department for Energy announces....more »

The state aid scheme aimed at supporting the large energy consumers by cutting down up to 85 percent of the green certificates (GCs) on the electricity bills could be approved by the EU Commission within the coming two weeks, Bogdan Chiritoiu, President of the Romanian Competition Council, told to Agerpres....more »

China National Electric Engineering Corporation (CNEEC) will run a project worth 271 million dollar for the refurbishment of Unit 4 at Deva thermal power plant, also developing the facilities for the operation of Units 3 and 4, reads Mediafax....more »

Razvan Nicolescu, the Minister Delegate for Energy, today met with a delegation from Enel led by Luca D’Agnese, member of the group’s board, in charge with international business. Talks treated Enel’s operations in Romania in the context of the announced sale of the domestic assets, reads a press release of the Department for Energy....more »

Prime Minister Victor Ponta attended the inauguration ceremony of the Iasi-Ungheni pipeline, along with his Moldavian counterpart, Iurie Leanca and Gunther Oettinger, European commissioner for energy. The project is aimed at providing the Republic of Moldova with an alternative to the gas supplied by Gazprom, thus ensuring a greater level of independence, as Moldavians will have access to gas providers from Romania....more »

Nuclearelectrica today announced the initiation of the procedure for selecting competitive investors to complete the project on the construction of Units 3 and 4 of the nuclear power plant from Cernavoda....more »

The Government announces that the price increase in natural gas delivered to households and scheduled for October 1 will most likely be deferred due to a dispute with EU Commission’s DG Enterprise on an alleged ban on natural gas exports from Romania....more »

Baroness Arielle Malard de Rotschild will be supported by the Department for Energy for a position within the future Board of Directors of Electrica, while Victor Cionga and Victor Grigorescu are the candidates designated by the Romanian State for becoming members of the board which will be established on September 22, 2014, when the first General Meeting of Shareholders subsequent to the company’s IPO is scheduled....more »

The Department for Energy has issued a draft ordinance which established important tax facilities for the investor that will engage in the project regarding the 1000 MW pumped-storage hydropower station at Tarnita-Lapustesti, the Cluj County....more »

Romania's largest thermo energy producer, Electrocentrale Bucharest, set up a joint venture with Japanese firm Marubeni Corporation to develop a gas power plant with a total installed capacity of 250 MW. The investment for the plant located in Fantanele, Mures county will amount to about 170 million euros.  The joint venture, SC Fântânele Gas Power SA, will be owned 90% by Marubeni Corporation and the remaining 10% of shares by Electrocentrale Bucharest, the company being operated as an independent power producer. The project involves the development of electricity generation units powered by natural gas, located inside the former Fântânele thermoelectric plant, which is currently disused....more »