Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totalled 25.376 million TOE in January-September 2025, rising by an annual 5.8%, the statistical office said in a statement. Imports accounted to 51.5% of the aggregate resources, or 13.066 million TOE, up by an annual 15.5%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totalled 51.345 TWh in the review period, up 4.5% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone fell 6% to 37.234 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 32.7% of the total output, hydropower for 23.8%, nuclear power for 21.6%, while wind and solar power had shares of 11.2% and 10.7%, respectively.
Thermal power production amounted to 12.164 TWh in the nine months through September, falling by 3.8% year-on-year. The hydropower output dropped by 22.7% on the year to 8.866 TWh, marking the largest decrease across all energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, inched up by an annual 0.9% in January-September 2025, to 8.042 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 4.186 TWh of electricity, down by 9.6% year-on-year, while solar plants, including those of prosumers, generated 3.977 TWh, up 37.7%.
Final electricity consumption edged down by an annual 0.4% to 37.252 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants inched up by 0.5% to 3.573 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports increased by 28.9% on the year to 10.521 TWh in the first nine months of 2025, while imports surged by 48.2% to 14.111 TWh.
The country produced 1.869 million TOE of crude oil, down 7.7% year-on-year, and 1.427 million TOE of coal, up 1%, in January-September 2025. Natural gas production fell 1% year-on-year, to 5.578 million TOE.
Romania’s energy production fell 4.6% to 16.916 million TOE in 2024. TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric tonne of crude oil.