National electricity consumption in Romania decreased by 5.7% in the first 11 months of 2023, y-o-y, to a total of 44.664 billion kWh, according to data published on Tuesday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).Commercial electricity consumption stood at 33.900 billion kWh, down 4.6%, while households used 8.6%, or 10.393 billion kWh, less electricity.At the same time, public lighting reported a decrease by 19.7%, to 370.2 million kWh, and technological self-consumption in networks and stations was 4.488 billion kWh, decreasing by 1.9%.According to INS data, electricity exports amounted to 10.426 billion kWh, up 3.884 billion kWh. Technological self-consumption in networks and stations was 4.488 billion kWh, down 88.6 million kWh.Between January 1 and November 30, 2023, primary energy sources decreased by 3%, and electricity sources increased by 1.8% y-o-y.The main primary energy sources in the first 11 months of 2023 totalled 30.049 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), down 933,000 toe y-o-y.Domestic production totalled 16.420 million toe, down 81,800 toe (-0.5%) y-o-y, and import was 13.629 million toe, down 851,200 toe (-5.9%).Thermal power stations generated 15.976 billion kWh of electricity, down 3.609 billion kWh (-18.4%). Hydropower plants generated 17.149 billion kWh of electricity, up 4.269 billion kWh (+33.1%), and nuclear power plants generated 10.176 billion kWh of electricity, up 111.3 million kWh (+1.1%).January 1 - November 30, 2023, wind power plants generated 6.930 billion kWh, which is an increase by 526.5 million kWh y-o-y, and photovoltaic installations gave 1.602 billion kWh, down 120.1 million kWh y-o-y.
During the past years and increasingly in the last months, Romania was subject to a sustained campaign of manipulation and informational interference of foreign origin aimed at influencing the country's public opinion and, more recently, its elections, according to a Romanian Foreign Ministry note. This campaign is still ongoing and has all the hallmarks of […]
There was no retail project completion in Q1 in Romania, but the delivery pace significantly picked up in April and May, when roughly 150,000 sqm of new schemes opened (including one super-regional shopping center – Mall Moldova – in Iasi). This area represents 80% of the entire 2024 new supply, according to data from real […]
DN AGRAR Group (BVB: DN), Romania's largest integrated livestock farm and leading producer of cow milk, closed the first quarter of 2025 with a turnover of RON 51 million (EUR 10 million), an increase of approximately 27% compared to the same period last year. The growth was fueled by an increase in both the volume […]
Romania may commission power generation units with a total capacity of 2.5 GW this year, twice the figure last year, minister of energy Sebastian Burduja said during a conference on May 22, according to Economica.net. Among the generation units to come online this year, Burduja outlined...
Romania’s Treasury sold RON 1.2 billion (EUR 240 million) worth of bonds denominated in local currency and in euros under the fourth issue of the Fidelis scheme aimed at households this year. More than half of the money was raised with the 1-year RON-denominated bonds with a 6.75% coupon (RON 430 million) and the 7-year […]
Romania hopes to submit the fourth disbursement request under the Resilience Facility (RRF) in July, after the revised RRF plan for Romania (PNRR) is endorsed by the European Commission, and to submit another two disbursement requests (out of the four left) by the end of 2026 when the Facility ends, according to the minister of […]
