“The encouraging of electricity consumption will not be to the detriment of natural gas consumption,” Nita told a news conference.
In the first quarter of the year, Romanian final power consumption fell 0.9% on the year, to 12.99 TWh, while electricity exports rose almost fourfold to 1.32 TWh, according to the country’s statistics institute INS.
Last year, power consumption fell 6% compared with 2012.