Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 2.783 million TOE in January 2026, rising by an annual 1.9%. Imports amounted to 49.4% of the aggregate resources, or 1.375 million TOE, up by an annual 6.1%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 6.366 TWh in the review period, up 3.9% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone rose 10.9% to 4.927 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 38.9% of the total output, hydropower for 23.9%, nuclear power for 20%, while wind and solar power had shares of 14.1% and 3%, respectively.
Thermal power production amounted to 1.918 TWh in January, edging up by 0.9% year-on-year. The hydropower output jumped by 35.3% on the year to 1.179 TWh.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, fell by an annual 3.4% in January 2026, to 987.2 GWh.
Wind farms generated some 696 GWh of electricity, jumping by 39.8% year-on-year, while solar plants, including those of prosumers, generated 146.8 GWh, down 2%.
Final electricity consumption went up by an annual 3.6% to 4.652 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants rose by 26.7% to 662.2 GWh.
Romania’s electricity exports declined by 5.5% on the year to 1.052 TWh in January, while imports decreased by 14.7% to 1.439 TWh.
The country produced 199,500 TOE of crude oil, down 8.9% year-on-year, and 138,000 TOE of coal, down 19.9%, in January. Natural gas production fell 1.1% year-on-year, to 654,400 TOE.
Romania’s energy production fell 2.3% to 16.527 million TOE in 2025. TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric ton of crude oil.