Many municipalities and cities in Romania have submitted dozens of projects this year to attract co-financing for investments in renewable energy production and energy efficiency programs.

“Across the country we have municipalities and cities that have submitted dozens of projects, have already accessed funding or are in the process of submitting projects,” said Roxana Muraru, project manager at REI Grup, at the conference “Energy Efficiency for Energy Transition” organized in Iași by Energynomics together with the Romanian Energy Efficiency Fund – FREE and the Directorate for Energy Efficiency within the Ministry of Energy.

However, although interest in obtaining funding for green energy and energy efficiency projects is high at national level, “a lot of information is not reaching the beneficiaries”.

REI has been active in this field for 10 years, during which time it has financed more than 1,000 projects, of which more than 800 have been implemented. The cumulative value of projects in which REI has been involved amounts to 1.5 billion euros.

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“We need to take advantage of this money,” Muraru added.

REI is a group of consultancy companies, namely REI Finance Advisors, REI International Consulting and Touched Marketing specialized in the development, implementation and monitoring of investment projects, both on European non-reimbursable funds and through state aid schemes.

The conference in Iași was the fourth of a series of 5 scheduled by the Energynomics communication platform, the Romanian Fund for Energy Efficiency – FREE and the Directorate for Energy Efficiency within the Ministry of Energy. The project is financed by Norwegian Grants 2014-2021. The final conference is scheduled on November 16 and 17, in Bucharest.