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.
Romanian transport minister Sorin Grindeanu claimed that another 250 kilometers of highway and express road will be opened to traffic in 2025. If the promises are fulfilled, Romania will reach nearly 1,500 kilometers of high-speed road this year, and will hit the milestone of 2,000 kilometers of highway over the next three years. "Last year, […]
Banca Transilvania (BT), the biggest financial group in the country, said that it successfully completed its merger with OTP Bank Romania, strengthening its position as the market leader with a 23% market share. The integration boosts BT's assets by 9%, its loan portfolio by 13%, and expands its presence, particularly in Bucharest and central Romania. […]
Drone fragments found on March 1 in Romania’s south-eastern Galați county are of Russian origin and carried an active combat payload, the Ministry of National Defense (MApN) announced in a press release. The fragments were found 500 meters from the border with the Republic of Moldova. The explosive payload was detonated...
Rates of decline in output and new orders soften Stocks of purchases increase for the first time on record Sharp and accelerated rise in input costs, but charge inflation cools Latest data provided signs that the decline across the Romanian goods-producing lost momentum midway through the opening quarter of the year. Although conditions remained challenging, […]
If Russian president Vladimir Putin, who invaded Ukraine in 2022, is not stopped, "he will certainly go to Moldova and perhaps further, to Romania," French president Emmanuel Macron warned in an interview with several French newspapers quoted by Le Monde. The statement came after the...
The government of Romania will continue to cap the price for "a large part of the electricity purchased by the Republic of Moldova" from domestic producers in Romania, acting president Ilie Bolojan declared during a press conference held in Chisinau on February 28 with counterpart Maia Sandu,
