Romania’s Energy Strategy could be subject to interministerial approval around July 15, and within 30 days we should have it approved, the Minister of Energy, Sebastian Burduja, said in a press conference on Monday.
“After many years at the legislative level, we undertook to have an Energy Strategy of Romania, which we have started. It is in public consultation and we have a debate session this week. We are waiting with great pleasure (opinions, n.r.) and we want to move forward with the inter-ministerial approval and within 30 days to have the Energy Strategy approved. In parallel with this feedback we have, we are in discussions with the European Commission on The National Integrated Energy and Climate Change Plan and we want to complete as quickly as possible the Strategy and the PNIESC0 to have order in the vision, strategy part for the National Energy System. The mechanism of contracts for the difference is of course also a milestone in the PNRR, part of Reforma 1, a scheme financed for the first time in Europe by Romania from the Modernization Fund with three billion euros and where we are preparing to launch the tender procedures for the first round this year, followed by the second for next year. In total. there will be 5,000 solar and wind megawatts,” said Burduja, quoted by Agerpres.
The official also referred to the Offshore Wind Law, on which a study is underway, with a deadline of 2025.
“The offshore wind law is a much-awaited law, probably the most important for the energy sector in the last many years. It was promoted by the president, and the ministry, at this moment, is in full process of carrying out that study which has a mid-term deadline 2025, if I’m not mistaken, by which we will define exactly those “go to areas”, areas where wind power plants can be built in the Black Sea, thus fitting it into the 2031-2032 calendar for the first megawatts produced by wind power plants in the Black Sea We have also launched the Energy Communities initiative, which is in the consultation stage. I think this week is the second meeting of the working group and we want to come here with legislative interventions in the next period to allow the use of this tool. As an example of the applicability of the energy units, the Romanians who live in the block will be able to enter such a community, to benefit every month from a possible production of solar energy panels through photovoltaic panels installed on the roof of these blocks. Lastly, we eliminated the sun tax because we said from the very beginning that it is important to support consumers and ensure our comfort that even in 2026, as the European Commission foresees as a possibility, we will not apply this sun tax,” the official added.
The Minister of Energy announced, at the end of May this year, that the National Energy Strategy will enter public debate “in a few days”, being “a document open to dialogue and improvements.”