The energy potential in the offshore wind area is very high and a law is needed to start the investments, a law that we want to issue this summer, said the Minister of Energy, Virgil Popescu.

“We are working on a draft Emergency Ordinance to approve investments in the offshore wind area. The potential is very high for electricity. We need a law. We have looked at the Polish model, the British model. We will make a model so that we can start the investment. We want to start it this summer,” said the minister, according to Agerpres.

This normative act is necessary, he explained, to know who gives the building permit if the installations have a foundation on the sea, how the permits are taken, if they are floating, who gives the permit, how the perimeters are put up for auction, who has access to them, who can develop the first pilot project, “things that will be put in such a way as to start the investment”.

Virgil Popescu pointed out that there is great interest from investors and that is why this law will be rushed.

Asked which countries still have such infrastructure, the Minister of Energy specified that, at the level of the Black Sea, last year he made the proposal to his Bulgarian colleagues, in Sofia, for the Three Seas Initiative.

“We have now signed a joint declaration for renewable energy in Sofia, including the Black Sea, to make a joint project. We have discussed this at the level of the European Commission and such a project between Romania and Bulgaria could be funded by projects of common interest on the sixth list by the Commission,” Popescu pointed out.