The year 2025 will be quite good in terms of new energy capacities that will be installed, according to the latest data published by the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE). 137 new energy capacities are expected to be put into operation in 2025, and their total installed power is 6,111 MW, according to the latest […]
Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu has not yet introduced the 1.5% construction tax, which is being strongly contested by the energy sector, into legislation, but he is asking Romanian companies to freeze prices for half a year. “We are introducing the tax on special constructions, which will not be applied until the regulations have been issued […]
Sinteza has signed a financing contract with the Ministry of Energy, from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), for the establishment of a new production, testing and recycling capacity for electrolytes used for the manufacture of industrial batteries for storing electricity, the company informs in a report submitted to the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB). […]
The Federation of Energy Employers (FPE) draws attention, in a letter sent to government and parliamentary officials, that the new 1.5% construction tax, adopted without consulting the industry, will significantly affect investments in the sector, some of them strategic for Romania, and the high costs that will be borne by companies will be transferred to […]
Hidroelectrica, the largest electricity producer in Romania, has launched the tender for the rehabilitation of four of the six groups of the Stejaru hydroelectric power plant. The other two have already been modernized. “Refurbishment of Stejaru HPP. Refurbishment of HA1÷HA4 and power plant installations”, is the title of the tender notice posted by Hidroelectrica in […]
Complexul Energetic (CE) Oltenia, the state-owned company that operates the quarries and coal-fired power plants in Rovinari, Turceni and Ișalnița, is seeking advice on a study to be submitted to the European Commission requesting a 3-year postponement of the closure of the power plants until December 31, 2028. CE Oltenia is asking the consultant to […]
The construction permit for the Poiana tunnel, on the Sibiu-Piteşti Motorway (A1), has been issued, and the Italian contractor is mobilized on site and is carrying out preparatory work for the construction of the access areas of the TBM installation, with which the two galleries will be drilled, announced on Tuesday, the Minister of Transport, […]
The Ministry of Energy presented, in the new government program, the old project of a combined cycle gas-fired power plant, with a capacity of 500 MW, which would be developed in Mureș County, in Fântânele, where the old thermal power plant operated, stopped in the 1990s and subsequently largely demolished. Here is what is written […]
Romgaz, the first state-controlled gas producer in Romania, has put out to tender the construction works for its first photovoltaic park. A 41 MWp photovoltaic power plant, on the land of which agriculture would also be carried out. “Construction of a dual-regime photovoltaic park in Zagăr, Mureș County” is the name of the contract put […]
The new government’s energy sector program, which will continue to benefit from a dedicated ministry – the Ministry of Energy is no longer being merged – broadly contains the same objectives, with a novelty however being the one related to the establishment of a capacity reserve in coal-fired power plants. The nuclear program, the extraction […]
The minister proposed to take over the portfolio at the Ministry of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, received a favorable opinion on Monday in the specialized committees convened in Parliament. Burduja was validated with 32 votes “for” and 19 “against”. “I thank my colleagues who trusted me for a new mandate. I presented to them the vision […]
The completion of the first mountain highway, which will cross the Carpathian Mountains, including the first mountain tunnels in the highway profile, by the end of 2028, is among the objectives of the Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (MTI) included in the government program proposed by the PSD-PNL-UDMR-parliamentary group of national minorities coalition. MTI also […]
Following an assessment by the European Investment Bank under the Modernisation Fund, the European Commission announced on Thursday that it has paid €2.7 billion to support 39 investment projects in eight member states, according to a press release from the EU executive, writes Agerpres Among the 39 projects is the installation of at least 1,500 […]
John Wood Group PLC (‘Wood’ or ‘the Company’) has been awarded a significant contract by OMV Petrom for a major project to boost the production of sustainable fuel in Southeast Europe. Under the scope of this project, the Petrobrazi refinery in Romania will become the first major production facility for sustainable aviation fuel in the region. […]