Environment Minister Mircea Fechet said that next year's enrollments in the "Green Home" solar photovoltaic installation program should be assigned a bigger budget, according to "certain well-established criteria, and transparent tie-breaking assessment factors known to everyone", emphasizing that the "first come, first served" principle has reached its limits.The minister made these clarifications at a press conference on Wednesday at the Victoria Palace of Government, where he also presented data regarding the completion of the latest session of the program."We cannot turn the 'Green Home' solar photovoltaic installation program into a national Olympic contest of digital skills, where whoever is the fastest gets the money. I believe that Romanians must have equal access to this program and I think we owe it to the Romanians to come up with fair, transparent tie-breaking criteria, which we should discuss in advance with the National Energy Regulatory Authority and with all the institutions that have a say in this matter. Starting next year, enrollment with this program should no longer be over in a matter of minutes or seconds, (...) but should be based on highly transparent and broadly known criteria, scores, tie-breaking and assessment factors," argued Fechet.He added that the program this year had a record-high budget of RON 2 billion, which financed almost 67 thousand Romanian households.The minister also said that by October 13, the Environmental Fund Administration will publish on its website the consolidated list of the approved panel installers. In a different thread, he dismissed suspicions about the apparently too short enrollment times - somewhere between one and two minutes on average - which some attributed to the illegal use of AI, stating that in the situation where demand exceeds by far the funding supply, the first conclusion is that an even higher allocation for the program is required.
The Romanian Ministry of Energy announced that the volume of natural gas exported from the Neptun Deep perimeter to Germany, under a contract previously reported by media, will represent less than 1% of the total estimated production of the Black Sea field, which has estimated reserves of over 100 billion cubic meters of natural gas, […]
For the Romanian IT companies, an important sector in the local economy, 2024 meant fewer new contracts, a much longer time needed to attract new business, increased labor costs amid legislative changes, and an unfavorable global context, according to a report filed at the end of last year by the management of the Employers' Association […]
German company Schieffer Industries will build a plastic components factory for the automotive industry on a plot of land at the entrance to the municipality of Hunedoara in Romania. Works on this investment are expected to be completed in the fall of this year so that production can start at the end of 2025, the […]
The Romanian state would consider the option of returning as a majority shareholder of utility group Electrica (BVB: EL) again and is analyzing ways to do this, sources told Economedia.ro. "It's a working scenario," other sources told Economedia.ro. Currently, Electrica is a listed company on the Bucharest...
Local carmaker Dacia has officially launched its Bigster model for orders in Romania on January 9, with prices starting at EUR 23,000 (VAT included) for the Essential version. The price goes up to EUR 29,500, with VAT, for the top version, Journey Hybrid 155. Deliveries to showrooms are expected to begin in spring 2025, with...
The leaders of the ruling coalition made up of the Social Democrats (PSD), Liberals (PNL), the Democratic Alliance of Hungarians (UDMR), and the minorities' group met on Wednesday evening, January 8, to decide on the new dates for the presidential elections. According to the agreed election schedule, the first round will take place on May […]
