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.
A team of Romanian paramedics won first place at the World Rescue Challenge 2025, a competition that sees first responders and trauma teams from around the world develop new skills and share knowledge. This year, the competition took place in Karlovac, Croatia, and was attended by two Romanian paramedics from Bucharest who have been working […]
Artmark, one of Romania’s leading auction houses, registered record sales of over EUR 15 million despite economic instability, showing the growth potential of the national art market, according to the company’s 2024-2025 market report. Overall, auction sales totaled EUR 11 million, up 8.2% compared to the previous year, while sales through the “Dependent de Artă” […]
Cybersecurity has become a major global priority, impacting individual users, companies, organizations, and public institutions. Social engineering, deepfakes, digital manipulation, and coordinated geopolitical attacks are fundamentally reshaping how we view the digital future. In this context, DefCamp, the largest cybersecurity and hacking conference in Central and Eastern Europe, reaffirms its role as a strategic hub […]
Romanian airline AnimaWings has received its fifth Airbus aircraft, an A220-300, as part of an ambitious expansion plan to build a fleet of 18 planes by the end of 2027, valued at over USD 1 billion. The A220-300 is the airline’s third of this type and will serve both domestic and international routes. Configured with […]
The well-known Romanian car brand Dacia announced the launch of the Duster Pick-Up, a utility vehicle with four seats and a capacity to transport up to 430 kg in the cargo space, on Wednesday, September 17. The car model is available in two engine versions, Hybrid 140 and Mild-hybrid 130 4×4, and has a starting […]
Romanian wrestler Ana Andreea Beatrice, 25, won bronze in the 55-kilogram category at the World Wrestling Championship in Zagreb. The Romanian bested Cuba’s Sanz Verdecia Yaynelis, 6-3, in an emotional match, to earn the medal. To get to the bronze, Ana Andreea Beatrice beat China’s Xuejing Liang in the preliminaries and the US wrestler Cristelle […]
