Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 22.294 million TOE in January-August, rising by an annual 4.6%. Imports accounted to 50.9% of the aggregate resources, or 11.342 million TOE, up by an annual 13.5%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 45.894 TWh in the review period, up 4.1% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone fell 6.6% to 33.271 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 32.7% of the total output, hydropower for 24.3%, nuclear power for 21.3%, while wind and solar power had shares of 11.3% and 10.4%, respectively.
Thermal power production amounted to 10.895 TWh in the eight months through August, falling by 4.3% year-on-year. The hydropower output dropped by 23.7% on the year to 8.082 TWh, marking the largest decrease across all energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, inched up by an annual 1.1% in January-August, to 7.084 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 3.765 TWh of electricity, down by 8.2% year-on-year, while solar plants, including those of prosumers, generated 3.446 TWh, up 35.1%.
Final electricity consumption edged down by an annual 0.8% to 33.302 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants fell by 0.7% to 3.239 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports increased by 29.1% on the year to 9.353 TWh in the first eight months of 2025, while imports surged by 49.3% to 12.623 TWh.
The country produced 1.669 million TOE of crude oil, down 7.7% year-on-year, and 1.263 million TOE of coal, down 0.2%, in January-August. Natural gas production fell 1.7% year-on-year, to 4.969 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.