Petromidia refinery processed a record amount of more than 465,000 tons of raw materials in May, the highest level since 1979 when it was commissioned, KMG International announced. The previous production record of 14,000 tons per day was therefore surpassed upon the upgrade and production capacity increase to over 5 million tons annually....more »

Romania’s main electricity producer and supplier puts up for sale other 22 small hydropower plants from its portfolio through an open outcry auction which will be conducted within September 15 and 18, 2014. The SHPs are divided in 17 asset packages and the starting price for selling all of them is approximately 55 million lei (some 12.5 million euro), according to the company....more »

Natural gas prices will be higher starting from July 1, for both households that will pay by 2.5 percent more and industrial consumers for whom the price increase is lower, by 1.5 percent, said Niculae Havrilet, President of ANRE, the National ...more »

Ovidiu Agliceru has replaced Mihai Stanculescu as general manager of Hidroelectrica, following the decision of Euro Insol, the judiciary administrator of the hydropower energy producer, the company announced through a press release. Agliceru who...more »

Romania climbs one position for the second time in a row in the EY’s report on the attractiveness of investment destinations in terms of renewable energy projects. Our country is positioned the 31st among 40 countries, after the Renewable energy country attractiveness index (RECAI) released in February ranked Romania the 32nd....more »

The Czech-based group, Solek, has been provided over 6.1 million euro for refinancing four of its solar parks in Romania whose total installed power capacity totals 8.58 MW. Refinancing of two of these PV projects (a total of 3.58 MW) is ensured by Garanti Leasing, while the other two, with a cumulated power capacity of 5 MW are supported through a refinance agreement concluded with OTP Bank Romania, the company announced....more »

Apa CTTA Alba, the company controlling wastewater treatment operations in the Alba County, secures the internal electricity consumption in the new wastewater treatment station in Alba Iulia by integrating a cogeneration plant in the project scheduled for completion in March 2015....more »

Transelectrica, the domestic system and transmission operator, announced the signing of the contract for the 400 kV overhead power line (OHL) which will serve as a connection between Resita (Romania) and Pancevo (Serbia). The related notificatio...more »

Hidroelectrica announces the launch of an international open tender for the refurbishment of the Stejaru hydroelectric plant in the Neamt County – in operation since 1960, a project of 75 million euro. The state-owned company sent on May 16 the related documentation for the tender to the National Authority for Regulating and Monitoring Public Procurement for examination. ...more »

Although there were expected about 20 small and medium-sized companies to submit their projects for the Energy Efficiency Programme the Ministry of Economy runs between 2014 and 2017, only five such companies sent their applications by the deadline set by the ministry – May 9, 2014. ...more »