Electricity exports more than tripled last year, reaching 8.19 billion KWh, from 2.46 billion KWh in 2013, while the country’s power consumption fell 1.9% to 49.25 billion KWh, the statistics institute INS said.
Thermal energy output decreased 1.6% to 26.6 billion kilowatt-hours, while hydropower production rose 25.4% to 19 billion KWh.
Nuclear power production went up 0.5% in 2014, the solar energy output tripled to 1.29 billion KWh, while wind production was marginally higher at 4.72 billion KWh.
At the end of 2014, wind farm production covered 7.5% of Romania’s total energy output, while solar production reached 2.1%, the data showed.
The country’s primary energy resources increased 2.4% on the year to 32.17 million tons of oil equivalent in 2014. Electric energy resources rose 7.8% to 63.98 billion KWh, largely fueled by a 7.4% increase in production.