Banks are increasingly interested in investment projects in the energy sector, seeing similarities between the banking and energy industries in terms of strictness and sensitivity to public policy and legislative changes, said Valentin Boldeiu, Head of EU Funds at Unicredit Bank.

“There are similarities between the banking and energy industries: both are equally strict and neither can go wrong. There are constraints that cannot be ignored and both are highly sensitive to public policy and legislative changes,” said Boldeiu, at the conference “Digitalization and Energy Efficiency – Oradea”, organised by Energynomics, together with the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR.

Public policies, including aid schemes from EU funds or the state budget, play a crucial role in supporting this sector.

“If we add up all the available funds, we pass the 85 billion euro mark. The funding is there, the projects are there, so we don’t have to complain about the lack of it. All we have to do is sit together and find solutions, and solutions do exist,” he added.

Boldeiu stressed the importance of collaboration between energy producers, banks, public authorities and consultants to develop and implement investment projects.

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“Energy producers, banks, public authorities and an often ignored sector, i.e. consultants, need to get together,” he concluded.

The conference “Digitalization and energy efficiency – Oradea” was organized by Energynomics with the support of the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR, and of our partners: ADC, BCR, Celestica, CRC Energy, Datacor, Fortza.ro, ICAP CRIF, Intesa Sanpaolo Bank, Photon Energy, Polytrade Global, Unicredit Bank, WALDEVAR Energy.