Romania needs a lot of heat pumps in the coming years to achieve its decarbonisation target in the heating and cooling sector, Sorin Elisei, director general at the Ministry of Energy, told a specialist event on Wednesday."On the electricity side, we are starting to do well. In 2030, Romania has an 87% reduction in emissions in the energy sector as against 1990 - and that is largely due to the "coal fault", so to speak, the elimination of coal, just as we set our targets under the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNNR)," Elisei told a ZF ESG 2024 conference on the pillars that underpin sustainable investments and how to build sustainable businesses.In his opinion, carbon capture and storage could be something that Romania could take advantage of, offshore rather than on-shore, but also an opportunity that is directly linked, for example, to the cement industry."We will need a lot of heat pumps in the coming years to be able to achieve our decarbonisation target in the heating and cooling sector. We see how other countries have attracted investment in factories - and that's what I think we should be moving towards. As Mr Fechet [environmental minister] said about investing in a glass factory, we should reach out to producers of net zero technologies. The renewable part for which billions and billions of euros have been allocated is on a good track."Minister Fechet said on Wednesday that funding sources are currently being sought at government level in order to attract investment to Romania for glass processing, given that the glass industry is one with a high added value that involves very high investments and operating costs. (Photo:https://www.myclimate.org/)
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Wizz Air announced it was opening its temporary base in Chişinău, in Moldova, and will offer direct connections to 16 destinations next winter, including eight new routes. The airline is offering non-stop flights between Chişinău and Berlin, Bologna, Brussels Charleroi, Dortmund, Memmingen, Paris Beauvais and Verona, as well as the new route to Nuremberg. In […]
Romania’s executive recently approved the acquisition of 58 new short-distance trains, RE-R2 and RE-R3, with 200 and 160 seats respectively, in contracts totaling RON 3.3 billion (EUR 683 million). Prime minister Marcel Ciolacu announced the approval of the purchase. "We are approving a major investment project that connects large urban centers via modern rail transport. […]
Romania is a strategic tech hub for the operations of the Brazilian technology multinational Stefanini in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Farlei Kothe, newly appointed CEO of North America, EMEA, and APAC, shares more on the company's expectations for the year to come, how its growth strategy informs its recruitment plans, and its work […]
The heads of Moldova's security institutions announced on Thursday, October 17, that several hundred Moldovan citizens were trained in Russia, Serbia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina to incite street movements aimed at overthrowing the constitutional order. The head of the National Police, Viorel Cernăuțeanu, the director of the Information and Security Service (SIS), Alexandru Musteața, and interim chief […]
