Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 29.776 million TOE in the eleven months through November, down 0.4% on the year, the same data show. Imports amounted to 48% of the aggregate resources, or 14.299 million TOE, up by an annual 4.7%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 60.242 TWh in the review period, edging up by 0.2% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone dropped by 8.3% to 48.012 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 32.8% of the total output, hydropower for 27.9%, nuclear power for 20.6%, while wind and solar power had shares of 11.7% and 7%, respectively.
Thermal power plants generated some 15.73 TWh of electricity in January-November 2024, down 1.6% year-on-year.
The country’s hydropower output plummeted by an annual 21.8% to 13.41 TWh, marking the largest downturn among energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, decreased by 2.8% year-on-year in January-November, to 9.89 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 5.61 TWh of electricity, down by an annual 19%, while solar plants generated 3.37 TWh, up 57.1%.
Final electricity consumption ticked up by an annual 1.8% to 46.03 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants fell by 3% to 4.35 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports decreased by an annual 5.4% to 9.86 TWh in the first eleven months of 2024, while imports saw a 57.9% hike to 12.23 TWh.
The country produced 2.456 million TOE of crude oil, down 4.2% on the year, and 1.759 million TOE of coal, down 15.8%, in January-November 2024. Natural gas production ticked up 1% year-on-year, reaching 6.912 million TOE.
Romania’s energy production fell 0.8% to 17.9 million TOE in 2023. TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric ton of crude oil.