Romania’s energy production totaled 14.635 million tons of oil equivalent (TOE) in the first ten months of 2022. Imports amounted to 12.972 million TOE, up 3.4% on the year, INS also said.
Romania’s electricity output and imports totaled 53.05 TWh in the analyzed period, down 4.5% on the year.
In January-October 2022, thermal power plants generated some 17.56 TWh of electricity, down 2.4% on the year, while the output of hydroelectric power stations fell by 21.4% to 11.89 TWh.
The production of the country’s sole nuclear power plant, Nuclearelectrica, fell by 1.9% on the year to some 9.07 TWh in the first ten months of 2022. Wind farms generated 5.82 TWh, up 13.1% on the year, and solar plants produced 1.65 TWh, 4.8% higher on the year, during the January-October period.
Romania’s January-October final electricity consumption fell by an annual 6.4% to 43.2 TWh. The country’s electricity exports rose by 13.8% to 5.68 TWh in January-October 2022, while imports rose 9.4% on the year to 7.03 TWh.
The country produced 2.43 million TOE of crude oil, down 6.2% on the year, and 2.56 million TOE of coal, up 1.5% on the year, in the first ten months of 2022. Natural gas production decreased by 4.4% year-over-year, reaching 5.74 million TOE.
In 2021, Romania’s energy production grew by 2.9% to 22.99 million TOE.
A TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric ton of crude oil.