The Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, said on Wednesday, after the meeting with energy producers in Romania, that special efforts were made in the past few days to be able to put decades-old equipment and installations into operation, as well as efforts to expedite projects we. He gave the example of Paroşeni where they also used manual labor to load the coal, they have equipment from the 1950s. He mentioned the restart of coal-fired units in reserve, especially coal, while the price of energy on the spot market of OPCOM has already exceeded 900 euro/MWh, on certain time intervals, on the day-ahead market (PZU).
“We convened this meeting with the main producers in order to have some important topics, on the one hand to know what conditions we can count on in this period in the energy system and how we can, especially on the peak of evening consumption, to compensate, we try to calm down and markets. I’m calling for investments in the storage area, because we at the Ministry of Energy are doing our job and making non-refundable money available, we put 80 million from the PNRR, another 300 million from the Modernization Fund is coming,” said the minister.
At the same time, the minister specified that he requested Rompetrol and the general contractor to complete the cogeneration plant at Năvodari, which would have an installed capacity of 80MW.
“There is a new cogeneration plant under construction, with a high degree of completion somewhere at 95%, in Năvodari, it is a project of the Romanian-Kazakh fund, delayed over a year, a year and a half. I was promised, since I started my mandate, that it would end in a month, two, three months. We requested the Rompetrol company and the general contractor to complete this investment, which would mean 80 megawatts, it is an important capacity. From the ministry’s side, we have assured him of all support and have summoned them next week to a special meeting for this,” he added.
