Final electricity consumption in Romania decreased by 1.4% in the first month of 2025, to 4.46 billion kWh, y-o-y, while electricity exports increased by 43.1 million kWh, reaching 1.113 billion kWh, according to data published on Friday by the National Institute of Statistics (INS).According to the INS, final commercial electricity decreased by 4.8% in January 2025, y-o-y.Official statistics reveal that, between January 1 and 31, 2025, the main primary energy sources totalled 2.725 million tonnes of oil equivalent (toe), up 73,900 toe from January 2024.At the same time, domestic production amounted to 1.431 million toe, down 5.8% year-on-year, and imports amounted to 1.294 million toe, up 14.3%.In the reference period, electricity sources were 6.095 billion kWh, down 80.8 million kWh.Thermal power plants generated 1.900 billion kWh, down 4.7%; hydropower plants generated 871.6 million kWh (-42.6%), and nuclear-electric power plants provided 1.022 billion kWh (-0.2%).Also, the January 2025 production from wind power plants amounted to 498 million kWh, down 307.3 million kWh, year-on-year, while solar energy produced in photovoltaic installations was 117.4 million kWh, up by 11.1 million kWh.INS data underline that final electricity consumption stood at 4.459 billion kWh, 1.4% lower, household electricity consumption increased by 11.1%, and public lighting decreased by 4.3%.As for the export of electricity, it was 1.113 billion kWh, up 43.1 million kWh from January 2024.Technological self-consumption in networks and stations declined 59.7 million kWh to 522.6 million kWh.
The United States has temporarily suspended the implementation of the Electronic System for Travel Authorization (ESTA) for Romanian citizens as it conducts a review of Romania’s recent designation into the Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that the review is aimed at ensuring compliance with the VWP’s security requirements. […]
A team of students from the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FSEGA) at Babeș-Bolyai University (UBB) in Cluj-Napoca won the gold medal at the 29th edition of the international economics case study competition titled ‘NIBS Worldwide Case Competition.’ The competition held in Nanchang, China, brought together 16 university teams from 13 countries, qualified through […]
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Pavel Popescu, the vice president of media regulator ANCOM, said in an interview with Politico published March 24 that Romania is fighting an information war with Russia to stop election meddling, and not censoring speech, as many US officials and figures like Elon Musk have said. The Politico article names Romania “ground zero in a […]
More than 2,300 military personnel from Romania and 11 allied nations, namely Albania, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Turkey, will take part in the multinational military exercise Sea Shield 25, set to take place from March 31 to April 11. Training sessions will be conducted […]
