Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 16.132 million TOE in January-June, rising by an annual 3.1%, the statistical office said in a statement. Imports amounted to 49.6% of the aggregate resources, or 7.994 million TOE, up by an annual 12.5%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 34.25 TWh in the review period, up 3.1% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone fell 8.7% to 24.88 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 32.8% of the total output, hydropower for 25.5%, nuclear power for 20.6%, while wind and solar power had shares of 12.1% and 9%, respectively.
Thermal power production amounted to 8.165 TWh in the six months through June, falling by 2.2% year-on-year.
The country’s hydropower output dropped by 26.4% on the year to 6.354 TWh, marking the largest decrease across all energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, inched down by an annual 1% in January-June, to 5.128 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 3.004 TWh of electricity, down by 12% year-on-year, while solar plants, including those of prosumers, generated 2.227 TWh, up 33.6%. At the end of June, Romania tallied 237,252 prosumers with a cumulative installed capacity of over 2.8 GW, according to the country’s energy regulator, ANRE.
Final electricity consumption edged up by an annual 0.5% to 24.872 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants fell by 3.9% to 2.481 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports increased by 17.5% on the year to 6.901 TWh in the first six months of 2025, while imports surged by 57% to 9.377 TWh.
The country produced 1.25 million TOE of crude oil, down 7.6% year-on-year, and 902,400 TOE of coal, down 2.9%, in January-June. Natural gas production fell 1.9% year-on-year, to 3.732 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.