NEK now owns 67% in Eolica Dobrogea (Schweiz) AG, the Swiss group said without revealing the value of the deal.
The other owner is Rokura SRL, a company registered in Bucharest.
Eolica Dobrogea is the local partner of Spain’s’ Iberdrola, which plans to build about 50 wind farms with a total capacity of 1,600 MW in Dobruja by 2017. The company has only one 80 MW farm running so far in Constanta County (SE Romania).
Corneliu Dica is the former manager of Eolica Dobrogea, fired because of a conflict with the majority shareholder last year. Dica filed several lawsuits on Eolica Dobrogea’s behalf against Romanian institutions, such as the national grid company Transelectrica and national energy market regulator ANRE.
Eolica officials later said they would drop the suits and have Corneliu Dica replaced. According to the Constanta media, Dica, a former director with the National Company “Maritime Ports Administration”, is one of the most active players in the wind power sector.
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)