Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 11.164 million TOE in January-April, rising by an annual 5%, statistical data also show. Imports amounted to 47% of the aggregate resources, or 5.247 million TOE, up by an annual 19.3%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 23.22 TWh combined in the review period, up 1.5% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone dropped by 12% to 17.047 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 35% of the total output, hydropower for 23%, nuclear power for 23%, while wind and solar power had shares of 12.5% and 6.4%, respectively.
Thermal power plants generated some 5.999 TWh of electricity in the four months through April, down 2.2% year-on-year.
The country’s hydropower output plummeted by 34% on the year to 3.894 TWh, marking the largest decrease among energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, fell by an annual 1.2% in January-April, to 3.936 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 2.127 TWh of electricity, down by 19% year-on-year, while solar plants generated 1.092 TWh, up 31%.
Final electricity consumption inched up by an annual 1% to 16.953 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants fell by 4.8% to 1.827 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports increased by 6.4% on the year to 4.44 TWh in the first four months of 2025, while imports saw an 82% surge to 6.173 TWh.
The country produced 840,000 TOE of crude oil, down 7.1% year-on-year, and 629,600 TOE of coal, down 0.7%, in January-April. Natural gas production fell 1.4% year-on-year, to 2.532 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 ton of crude oil.