EBRD Renewable Energy Initiative

RFV will spend about EUR 3.5m this year, mainly on the renovation of district heating capacity. About 80% of the fuel used by the district heating plant it will build for the city will be biomass.

21-Jul-10

Grant Contracts for Biomass Development Awarded

Hungary-Slovakia-Romania-Ukraine ENPI CBC Programme 2007-13 has announced that the first three Grant Contracts within the ENPI CBC were signed on 14th July 2010 in Chust, Ukraine.

13-Jul-10

Romanian Biomass Power Plant to Use Wicker

The first Romanian plant to produce electricity from energy wicker is to be built in Ghilad village in Timis County (western Romania), with a German private investment, as the energy wicker’s calorific values are much higher than the coal’s.
“In addition to other advantages offered by this new source of renewable energy, we will be able to regenerate the land, too, as the wicker plantations do not harm the land, but on the contrary they fertilise it,” Ghilad mayor Cornel Guran told Agerpres.
The German company started to plant energy wicker on a 35-hectare area, which represents the nursery, a year ago. From here, as the wicker reaches maturity, it will be planted on the locals’ thousands of hectares. The wicker can be harvested after two years and can be used for 25 years after its being planted.
Fifty people are planting the wicker for the German company Rebina Agrar, and when the works begin to the power station, other tens of people will be employed plus a couple of hundred others to manually plant the wicker in the nursery.

07-Jun-10

Photovoltaic Panel Manufacturing Facility Launched in Romania

Renovatio Group announced on Wednesday, the launch of largest fully automated PV panel manufacturing facility in Eastern Europe, with an investment is 10 million Euros.

03-Jun-10

50MW Solar PV Factory Set for June Start in Romania

Cyprus based renewables group Renovatio will open a 50 megawatt (MW) per year solar panel manufacturing facility in Romania, which it says is the largest in eastern Europe, on 2 June. The €10m fully automated facility, located in Satu-Mare, will produce around 250,000 solar panels per year.

Renovatio said it chose the 3,000 square-metre site because of a “highly skilled local work force and the logistic facilities in the area.”

28-May-10

RWE Planning 350 MW of Wind in Romania

Germany's RWE energy group, which is participating in the construction of units 3 and 4 of the Romanian nuclear-power plant of Cernavoda, will be developing two wind power projects of a total capacity of 350 MW in two locations in south-eastern Romania, according to market sources quoted by daily Ziarul Financiar.

The company has reached an advanced stage in winning approval for two wind power facilities to be built close to the Constanta Black Sea city. One facility would put out 200 MW and the other 150 MW. Investors are considering other locations in Romania, including the north-eastern province of Moldavia according to Act Media.

20-May-10

Report: CEE next Big Market for Renewable Energy

“As CEE countries take on the challenge of developing their indigenous energy sources, companies are currently experiencing first-mover advantages that could place them ahead of the curve,” Frost & Sullivan says.

23-Apr-10

Romanian Grid Operator Approves 1,500MW of Wind on System

The Romanian grid operator (Transeléctirca) has given the green light for Iberdrola to connect 1,500 MW to the country's electricity grid. The company has described this project as "the most ambitious project of its kind developed in the world”.

The Romanian government has authorised Iberdrola Renovables, which established an office in Romania last year, to set its Bobruja project in motion, which will witness the start-up of up to 50 wind farms in the region of Dobruja, in south-eastern Romania. The Company intends to build these wind farms between 2011 and 2017.

23-Apr-10

Romanian Geothermal Used for Greenhouse Heating

Two million euros have been invested by Transgex Co. to construct a bio-heated greenhouse range in Livada, Romania, for the production of tomatoes. Geothermal water from a deep drilled well is used to heat the greenhouses.

23-Apr-10

Development Opportunities for Wind in Romania Highlighted

The newly unveiled wind farm projects are for an installed capacity of some 2,200 MWh. The wind power facilities are expected to cover approximately 10 percent of the current electricity consumption in Romania. If all the investment projects are carried through by 2010, Romania will have exceeded its 3.7 TWh wind power electricity generating quota to which it committed during accession talks with the European Union.

11-Apr-10

LC Business SRL Tender for Wind Turbines Set

The company has scheduled an open tender for April 23, 2010 for the acquisition and installation of the six wind power turbines for a site near Oravita, Rumania.

02-Apr-10

Siemens Romania Looks Offshore to Black Sea Wind Resource

“We are involved in many projects that have high chances to succeed in Romania’s onshore and offshore wind energy sector,” said Ruset.
The available land for onshore wind parks in the wind-rich zone of southeast Romania’s Dobrogea region is almost saturated and Ruset argues it is “sensible” for potential developers to now focus on installing turbines in the Black Sea. There is also no legislation detailing exactly what the minimum distance from the shoreline is for the turbines to be installed. To clarify this information, the Government should pass a long-awaited regulations on renewable energy this summer.

02-Apr-10

Romanian Wind Power Grows Significantly

Romania’s installed wind capacity is 545 Megawatts for 2010, according to the estimates of the Romanian Association for Wind Power (AREE), compared with 2009’s installed capacity of 14.1 Megawatts, AREE official Dana Duica said.

20-Mar-10

EBRD says Bulgaria, Romania Need to Cut Red Tape to Raise Renewables Share

European Union members Bulgaria and Romania need to streamline their administrative procedures to enhance the development of green energy and meet the targets for raising the share of renewable sources in their energy production, a senior official of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said.

18-Mar-10

Romania Set to Expand Wind Capacity

Romania is set to significantly expand its wind energy capacity over the coming years, improving on its position as one of the European countries with the lowest amount of wind farm capacity installed. Currently the country has 14 MW of wind power installed capacity, but the European Wind Energy Association, in its recently published Pure Power report, predicts this will rise to 3,500 MW, all of that onshore wind power.

04-Mar-10

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