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The Romanian city of Oradea will redesign green spaces with local, wild and perennial plants, that can provide decoration all year round. The new spaces should also be nearly self-sufficient and self-..
Almost all members of the lower house of the Parliament of Romania voted for a bill limiting the prices of gas and electricity for households and small businesses and introducing support for a range of other categories of consumers. Electricity producers with the exception of power plants that run on fossil fuels will pay a tax on revenues from prices higher than EUR 91 per MWh.
With a total of 133 electric vehicles, the transit system in the Romanian city will be able to be 100% electric
Almost 1500 public officials across 129 municipalities in Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Romania, Serbia, and Slovenia increased their capacity to devise new energy renovation strategies thanks to the work of the EmBuild project. These officers can now analyse their local building stocks, use new templates to draft public-sector building renovation strategies, and improve the investment climate at local level. The EmBuild Navigator gives practical help for local authorities, including a catalogue of low-cost measures, and guidance on assessing the non-energy benefits of renovation.
Energy efficiency is taking centre stage in the Energy Union. Last summer, after long negotiations between the Parliament and the Council, a new energy efficiency target was set at 32.5 per cent by 2030. To meet the target, Romania is channelling public funds into renovating its residential sector which accounts for as much as 86 per cent of the country’s built environment.
Romania is continuing to prop up its ailing coal sector, blatantly ignoring EU state aid rules, even as the country claims to be defending EU values while holding the rotating presidency of the bloc, writes Alexandru Mustață.
Romania steps backwards regarding renewable energy, to be present with the European Commission with a target, assumed in the project Energy Strategy of only 27.9% at the horizon of 2030 much under the level of 32% established for the whole European Union.
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Eleven European countries, including Slovenia, Romania, and Bulgaria, have no concrete plans for introducing tenders for renewable energy sources (RES) in the short term, while Croatia has indicated it will start with tendering procedures for biomass this year, according to the Council of the European Energy Regulators’ (CEER) Tendering procedures for RES in Europe: State of play and first lessons learnt report.
Last week the Romanian Government approved the funding of more than €400 million of European funds to provide brand new trams, trolleybuses and electric buses across the country. Funds will also encompass recharging points and intelligent transport equipment – as well as upgrading the current fleet of school buses used by municipalities and local administrations across the country to Diesel Euro 6.
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Authorities in Bucharest’s Sector 1 plan to extend a solar-powered heating and hot water programme. Sustainable heating equipment and the photovoltaic system itself will be funded by the municipality,..
Romania’s energy supplier Restart Energy and US-based fund Interlink Capital Strategies have established a joint venture to develop USD 500 million investments in green energy in Romania and neighboring countries, as well as a blockchain platform in the US.
Tirintica has been working in the coal sector since 2014 in Romania’s Jiu Valley region — once a coal economic powerhouse. He was one of 10 miners invited to see how his skills could be adapted to match the needs of the renewable energy industry or those of the energy distribution sector. It’s the test phase of a pilot project spearheaded by the Romanian Wind Energy Association (RWEA).
The association’s goal is to get EU funds and strike a deal with an existing renewable energy skills academy located by Romania’s Black Sea coast that could retrain about 100 miners as part of an extended pilot project. The long-term goal is a 10-year project to reskill 800 miners per year. For now, private companies will finance the handful of miners involved in the early trial.
Baia Mare (RO) is restructuring its economy away from industry towards services and manufacturing. Encouraging social innovation was a challenge. As part of the URBACT BoostInno network, the city experimented with new tools to help stimulate civic engagement, starting with a participatory budget.
This guide, available in English, Romanian and Bulgarian, runs through the steps that should be taken and content that should be included to meet these new requirements and produce a thorough and successful strategy, highlighting specific areas that need to be addressed in Bulgaria and/or Romania and examples of good practice by different Member States. The list of elements to include in the renovation strategy, as set out in the Directive, provides a basic content outline. This has been structured to follow the phases of development and implementation. The key steps in developing a renovation strategy can be divided into six phases, with stakeholder consultation throughout the process, and the feedback loop to review and update the strategy regularly.
Romania’s Environmental Funds Administration plans to run a program in March-April to offer up to EUR 115 million in European funds to prosumers to encourage the adoption of solar energy.
The program to offer subsidies of up to EUR 4,200 per prosumer was discussed at a recently held conference that brought together representatives of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority, the Environment Fund Administration, and power companies, according to a press release from the organizer, energiaTa (YourEnergy), a Romanian initiative launched three years ago to make prosumers a reality in Romania and to accelerate the transition to a green economy.
The subsidies, which are to cover a maximum of 90% of project costs, will finance the procurement and installation of solar energy systems.
It will be a first for Romania, but it will also be a first in European history as during this mandate they will have to lead the Council with four major points on the agenda: concluding the Brexit procedure at the end of March, the European elections in May, finalising negotiations on the new Multiannual Financial Framework (the EU’s budget) for 2021-2027 and hosting the Sibiu Summit at the beginning of May.
However, what is to be expected on the topics of climate change and transport, only a few weeks after the conclusion of COP24, in Poland? Romania will need to wrap up various EU legislative files on the decarbonisation of transport, while also defining the EU’s long-term climate policy as well as ensuring the smooth transition and adjustment of the EU’s energy efficiency target to account for the UK’s departure.
The Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (BSTDB) has secured a EUR 7 million revolving facility for Garanti Consumer Finance, a Romanian non-banking financial institution, to finance energy efficiency, renewable energy, and water-saving solutions in the Romanian residential housing sector, the BSTDB said in a press release.
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