Romania’s objective must be energy independence, and this goal can be achieved because the country has significant wind and photovoltaic resources, said Dan Bota, Head of Multinational Corporate Clients at Intesa Sanpaolo Bank.

“It is clear that our main goal at country level must be energy independence, and Romania does have a complete mix of energy sources and has great potential for development on wind and photovoltaic,” he said, at the conference “Digitalization and Energy Efficiency – Cluj-Napoca” organised by Energynomics and the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR.

Romania should also focus its efforts on supporting three crucial economic sectors, namely agriculture, infrastructure – in conjunction with the construction system and energy. But this requires legislative stability.

“I recently had a discussion with a large energy company in Romania who told me that there were 17 regulations in the energy system. In such a situation we cannot talk about legislative stability. You can’t come out with a measure and then change it after 20 or 30 days,” Bota said.

The conference “Digitalization and Energy Efficiency – Cluj-Napoca” was organised by Energynomics and the Italian Chamber of Commerce for Romania – CCIpR, with the support of our partners: ADC, ABB, BCR, CRC Energy, Datacor, Eaton Electric, Elektra Renewable Support, EnergoBit, Exim Banca Românească, Fortza Solar, MET Energy Romania, Polytrade Global, Nofar, WALDEVAR Energy.