The National Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) issued, on Thursday, the establishment authorization for one of the largest wind farms in Romania, Ialomita Nord, with a total capacity of over 246 MW, announced the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja.It is a project owned by the Portuguese company Greenvolt, through Tandarei Solar, and will benefit from the Contracts for Difference (CfD) scheme, which the Ministry of Energy launched last year."The project is among the first to qualify for the CfD scheme, which means that it has secured financing and will be carried out, with a 15-year guarantee of the selling price of the electricity produced. This means jobs in construction and operation, local taxes, income in the economy and, last but not least, clean and cheap energy produced here, in Romania," the minister of Energy wrote on Facebook.He believes that the project can be a magnet for economic development, in a county where there is a great need.Sebastian Burduja recalled that Romania currently has about 3,100 MW installed in wind power."The CfD scheme is, without exaggeration, one of the most important public energy policies of the last 30 years and it will continue in the coming years. And, despite the 'choir of lamenters', who harshly criticized us for this initiative, we have demonstrated that we can have competitive tenders. And we have also fulfilled an essential milestone in the PNRR. This should be the real meaning of the energy transition: to produce more clean energy here, to produce it cheaply, to be sold at affordable prices for Romanians and companies and to transform it into a source of economic development for Romania", the minister of Energy said.
Around 32% of Romanians plan to spend their upcoming holidays abroad, with Greece, Italy, and Spain topping the list of preferred destinations, according to the Visa CEE Travel and Payment Intentions Study 2025. Of those going abroad for the summer, nearly 40% say they are “experience seekers,” prioritizing discoveries and stepping out of their comfort […]
Călin Georgescu, the far-right, Russia-friendly politician who surprisingly emerged as the first-round winner of last year’s presidential elections, will remain under judicial supervision after the District 1 Court in Bucharest rejected his appeal against the prosecutors’ decision to extend the preventive measure,
The mayor of Timișoara, Dominic Fritz, will be the new leader of the Save Romania Union party, or USR, after he received 67.2% of the votes in an internal race. The vote for the new party president was conducted online and started Wednesday at 10 AM and ended Friday at noon. A total of 10,914 […]
The Sports Barometer in Romania, a study conducted by IRES and presented on Thursday, June 12, during the Sports Festival, reveals that 32% of Romanians do not engage in any type of physical activity, and that as age increases motivation drastically decreases. According to the study, 28% of Romanians are super-active and do a form […]
The Romanian-American University has officially launched the country’s first Department of Latin American Studies (DSLA), marking a significant step in its internationalization efforts. The inauguration brought together official representatives from eight Latin American countries - Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay - underlining the strong diplomatic support for deepening educational and cultural […]
Romanian president Nicușor Dan laid wreaths on Friday, June 13, at the Monument dedicated to the memory of the victims of the June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad and at the “Kilometer Zero of Democracy” Monument. The violent events of June 1990 remain in post-communist memory as the “June 13–15, 1990 Mineriad” and refer to the repression, […]
