An increase in production would have to start with reactors 3 and 4 at nuclear power plant Cernavoda, gas drilling in the Black Sea and shale gas.
“If indeed we have resources,” Basescu said.
He added Romania’s GDP should double within the next 10 to 12 years, which means an increase in energy sources will have to be considered. However, the only viable sources are the three mentioned above, according to Basescu, and not wind power.
“We can’t fill the country with these windmills,” Basescu said after letting on that wind energy is more of an ecological whim than an efficient solution.
In addition, Basescu said the gas resources found 170 km off the coast in the Black Sea, estimated at 100-110 billion cubic meters in the first of five deposits, should enable Romania to secure sufficient gas for itself.
“For some neighbors too”, he added.