Thermal energy output increased 0.5% to 24 billion kilowatt-hours, while hydropower production rose 24.6% to 17.4 billion KWh, the statistics institute INS said.
Nuclear power production went up 0.7% on the year in the January-November period, while the solar energy output tripled to 1.26 billion KWh, but wind production declined 1%.
At the end of November, wind farm production covered 7.2% of Romania’s total energy output, while solar production reached 2.2%, the data showed.
The country’s primary energy resources increased 2.4% on the year to 29.3 million tons of oil equivalent in January-November 2014. Electric energy resources rose 8.6% to 58.2 billion KWh, largely fueled by a 8.4% increase in production.
Romanian final power consumption reached 45.3 billion KWh in the first 11 months of last year, down 0.1% from the same period of 2013. Public illumination fell 25.4% year-on-year, while household consumption was down 0.7%.
Electricity exports increased by 5.19 billion KWh to 7.15 billion KWh in the January-November period.