It’s the weekend of the St Nicholas celebration, but also of one for bookworms as one of Bucharest’s two major book fairs is on. Meanwhile, more season markets and events bring a festive atmosphere. ...
According to the data provided by the National Energy Dispatch, the demand for electricity storage is 4,000 MW until 2030, half of which will come from batteries and half from pumped storage hydropower plants, the minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja declared on Friday.According to the minister, Romania must do what it should have done for decades, namely pumped storage hydropower plants, because "we are the only country in the EU with the geography that allows such investments and that was not able to carry after all, such a hydroelectric plant. It is much more useful than a field of batteries. Much more useful because it stores energy for a much longer period and is much friendlier to the environment. (...) That is why I and the Council of ministers in Brussels always say: give us a favorable framework for pumped storage hydropower plants through which we can speed up, on the one hand, the environmental approval procedures, and on the other hand, we can access more financing because they are expensive projects and there are projects that cannot be done overnight."As to the pumped-storage hydropower plant project from Tarnita-Lapustesti, he mentioned that the feasibility study procedure is underway and if this fails, a public-private partnership option will be used."In the public-private partnership, there are big partners, with some of them I have met, they could enter from this moment. We do not have a feasibility study, they assume part of the costs and then when you have the study, the shares in the shareholding structure are renegotiated. But we have no way to give up this investment," said Sebastian Burduja.
It’s the weekend of the St Nicholas celebration, but also of one for bookworms as one of Bucharest’s two major book fairs is on. Meanwhile, more season markets and events bring a festive atmosphere. ...
In the context in which agri-food systems are responsible for almost one third of global greenhouse gas emissions, Auchan Romania assumes an active role in the transition of its supply chain toward a more sustainable model. At the second edition of the Climate Supplier Event, organized under the aegis of the Climate Change Summit, the […]
Janiva Magness, the winner of seven Blues Music Awards following 26 nominations, and nominated for a Grammy for a career spanning 17 albums, is set to perform at the 14th edition of the Brașov Jazz & Blues Festival, which will take place between August 14–16, 2026. Magness is one of the most valuable and influential […]
Auction house Artmark announced a major auction for this winter featuring an engraving created by Francisco Goya, the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Romania's late communist leader Nicolae Ceaușescu received this gift from King Juan Carlos I as a gesture of diplomacy. The engraving entitled “The Engagement – Capricho […]
Authorities managing Romania's Bicaz Gorges–Hășmaș National Park has built a fish ladder system on the Bicaz River, which will allow protected species to migrate and reproduce. There are several bridges and small bridge structures in the Bicaz River that have a “bottom sill,” meaning small waterfalls. Fish that do not jump like the trout cannot […]
The far-right opposition parties in the Romanian Parliament are set to file a motion of no confidence against the government headed by prime minister Ilie Bolojan. The motion, authored by senator Ninel Peia of the Peace – Romania First group, is specifically aimed at the reformist party Save Romania Union (USR), and is entitled “Romania […]