Romanian customers can order Lodgy MPV at prices that start off from EUR 9,500 (VAT included) and B-Max will hit the local showrooms in July. Dacia presented its Lodgy MPV to the press at the Geneva Auto Show yesterday, for the first time in the world. The model can be ordered by customers in Romania starting [...]
Romania's interior minister, Cătălin Predoiu, expressed cautious optimism about the country's prospects for full Schengen accession following a meeting scheduled for November 22 with Austrian interior minister Gerhard Karner. Speaking on local news channel Antena 3, Predoiu stated that "the pieces are quite well placed" for progress on accession with land borders,
Romgaz (BVB: SNG), the largest producer and main supplier of natural gas in Romania, will list its first bond issue, worth EUR 500 million and aimed to finance the Neptun Deep offshore gas project, on the Bucharest Stock Exchange on November 19. In October, Romgaz issued the first EUR 500 million tranche of a EUR […]
Left without heating after a coal-fired unit at Electrocentrale Craiova broke down, Ford Otosan’s automobile plant in southern Romania ceased operations on November 13, Profit.ro reported. The losses at the factory that is producing some 1,000 automobiles and 1,700 EcoBoost...
Bucharest Exchange-listed Premier Energy Group, active in the renewable electricity generation and energy supply activities in Romania and Moldova, announced its revenues rose by 25% y/y to EUR 816 million in January-September and by 61% y/y to EUR 303 million in Q3 alone, driven by both organic performance and strategic acquisitions. The net profit, however, shrunk […]
Romania's leading energy producer, Hidroelectrica (BVB: H2O), announced its output decreased by 22% y/y to 11.35TWh in January-September, citing both market conditions (a change in the regulations that resulted in volatile prices and volumes traded) and adverse hydrological conditions. The revenues contracted by 25% y/y to RON 7.2 billion (EUR 1.44 billion), roughly in line […]
Lower electricity production amid slightly higher domestic demand and the reliance on intermittent renewable resources led to increasingly more situations when Romania imports electricity at the maximum capacity of its interconnectors, although the net electricity deficit is in the range of only some 3% of total consumption. The power storage capacities can smooth supply and […]
