{"id":5138,"date":"2025-05-23T07:00:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5138"},"modified":"2025-05-23T07:00:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T07:00:58","slug":"romania-to-add-2-5-gw-to-its-power-generation-capacity-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/?p=5138","title":{"rendered":"Romania to add 2.5 GW to its power generation capacity this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Romania may commission power generation units with a total capacity of 2.5 GW this year, twice the figure last year, minister of energy <strong>Sebastian Burduja<\/strong> said during a conference on May 22, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economica.net\/vizam-2-500-mw-noi-instalati-pana-la-sfarsirul-anului-burduja_838620.html?mc_cid=a4135607b3&amp;mc_eid=cd1f92f96c\" target=\"_blank\">Economica.net<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among the generation units to come online this year, Burduja outlined the gas-fired power plants Iernut (430 MW) and one or two units of the 1.7 GW gas-fired power plant Mintia.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new renewable energy capacities funded under the Resilience facility commissioned this year are expected to add just above 1 GW to the country\u2019s power generation capacity.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the Mintia power plant will be fully completed and new green generation capacities summing up to 1.3 GW will be added.<\/p>\n<p>Romania is expected to have a combined power generation capacity of 24 GW at the end of 2025, under the 2025-2035 energy strategy inked last year by the government. Out of this, 9 GW will be in wind (5 GW) and solar (4 GW) capacities and 7 GW in hydropower plant capacity (mainly capacities operated by Hidroelectrica).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s generation capacity will rise to 30 GW, out of which 15 GW will be in wind and solar, by 2030.<\/p>\n<p><em>iulian@romania-insider.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Photo source: Facebook\/Sebastian Burduja)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Romania may commission power generation units with a total capacity of 2.5 GW this year, twice the figure last year, minister of energy Sebastian Burduja said during a conference on May 22, according to Economica.net.\u00a0 Among the generation units to come online this year, Burduja outlined the gas-fired power plants Iernut (430 MW) and one [&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-5138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138","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=5138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofero.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}