Installations of new photovoltaic and wind farms have progressed at a slow pace over the past year, but by the end of February next year Romanian prosumers will have an estimated capacity of around 2,000 MW.

“In the last two years, things have not developed, from one point of view, as we wanted. They have evolved in terms of authorisations, which are very many, but in terms of projects, things are the same as two years ago,” said Gabriel Andronache, vice president of the National Energy Regulatory Authority – ANRE, during the “More renewables for Romania” conference, organized by Energynomics.

If in 2021 the PV parks in the country totalled 1,357 MW installed, today the capacity is 1,528 MW. Wind farms have also increased to an installed capacity of 1,427 MW from 1,414 MW in 2021. At the end of July, 84,733 prosumers were registered with a total installed capacity of 1,063 MW. In February 2024, installed capacity at the prosumer level is expected to increase to 2,000 MW, but the area where a significant advance in wind turbine installations is expected is offshore wind.

“The good and most important things are also in the offshore area and here we must look very carefully so that by the end of the year we have an offshore law that will allow us to have 1,000 MW offshore by 2030 out of the 3,000 MW we are expecting. The yield of offshore wind is 40-60%, compared to onshore at most 25%,” Andronache added.

In addition, the future submarine power cable linking Georgia to Romania will be able to connect 5,000 MW of power generation capacity, including offshore wind. Once in operation, this energy transmission cable will be able to contribute to the decongestion of grids in Dobrogea, including by taking energy to be produced by the nuclear reactors 3 and 4 at Cernavodă, as well as electricity produced in Bulgaria.

“More renewables for Romania” conference was organized by Energynomics, with the support of our partners among which Alive Capital, Astrasun, BCR, Elektra Renewable Support, EnergoBit, Eximprod, Ensys Renewable Solution, ING Bank, LAPP Romania, Metacon, Noark, Photomate, REI Grup, TAW Energy, Volt, Wiren.