Thermal energy output was up 12.2% on the year to 3.12 billion kilowatts hour, while hydropower and nuclear power production rose 22.2% and 0.9%, respectively.
Wind farm output increased 38.3 million KWh on the year to roughly 487 million KWh in the first month of 2014, while solar power production rose to 11.1 million KWh, from 2.4 million KWh in the year-ago period.
The country’s primary energy resources edged down 0.1% on the year to 2.7 million tons of oil in January, the data showed.
However, electric energy resources rose 10.4% to 5.9 billion KWh, largely fueled by an 11.7% increase in production.
Romanian final power consumption reached 4.55 billion KWh in January, up 3.1% from the same period of 2013.