{"id":11377,"date":"2026-08-03T13:01:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11377"},"modified":"2026-08-03T13:01:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T13:01:29","slug":"eastern-romania-iasi-switches-off-street-lighting-after-midnight-amid-energy-sector-state-of-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=11377","title":{"rendered":"Eastern Romania: Ia\u0219i switches off street lighting after midnight amid energy sector state of alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ia\u0219i, a city in northeastern Romania, has decided to reduce its public street lighting following the nationwide state of alert declared in Romania&#8217;s energy sector on July 31<\/p>\n<p>The street lighting is switched off after 24:00 in the city, except on hospital grounds, underpasses, and busy central areas such as the city\u2019s Union Square, <a href=\"https:\/\/tvrinfo.ro\/bezna-in-iasi-noaptea-iluminatul-stradal-se-opreste-de-la-ora-24-00-pentru-a-micsora-consumul-energetic-masura-se-aplica-si-in-alte-orase\/\" target=\"_blank\">TVR Info<\/a> reported. The Local Police will deploy additional officers to patrol the streets, Ia\u0219i mayor Mihai Chirica announced.<\/p>\n<p>According to the mayor, the measure is expected to save around 10 MWh of electricity every night.<\/p>\n<p>Other cities in Romania, namely Tecuci and Boto\u0219ani, will introduce similar measures.<\/p>\n<p>The government declared a nationwide state of alert in the energy sector for the entire month of August after severe drought and very low water levels curtailed electricity production.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, state-owned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-electricity-imports-ukraine-low-danube-august-2026\" target=\"_blank\">nuclear power producer Nuclearelectrica said that it began importing electricity from Ukraine through Moldova&#8217;s state-owned energy supplier Energocom<\/a> to offset the shortfall caused by the shutdown of Unit 1 at the Cernavod\u0103 nuclear power plant.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.romania-insider.com\/romania-divert-danube-nuclear-plant-august-2026\" target=\"_blank\">Romania seeks to divert Danube water to keep Cernavoda nuclear power plant online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/khamkhor_info\">khamkhor<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dreamstime.com\/\">Dreamstime.com<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>simona@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ia\u0219i, a city in northeastern Romania, has decided to reduce its public street lighting following the nationwide state of alert declared in Romania&#8217;s energy sector on July 31 The street lighting is switched off after 24:00 in the city, except on hospital grounds, underpasses, and busy central areas such as the city\u2019s Union Square, TVR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}