“When we started developing the wind farm, Romania did not have more than 2 MW installed,” said Ondrej Safar, chief executive officer of CEZ Romania at the Energy Transition 2018 event.
Work on the EUR1 billion project that includes 240 turbines started in the summer of 2010 and was completed in November 2012, and the farm is unrivalled in Europe even today.
As green power and especially wind power appear to be the main energy bets in Europe, Safar says CEZ is focusing its efforts in that direction.
CEZ wants to become a perfectly integrated company in the wind power area. It made an acquisition in France and last year another one in Germany, but one cannot rely on acquisitions only, one must also build something. CEZ is starting to use Romanian experts in Germany and in Romania it is building a wind power know-how hub, Safar added.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)