Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totaled 5.335 million TOE in January-February 2025, increasing by an annual 2.6%, INS also said in a statement. Imports amounted to 48.6% of the aggregate resources, or 2.592 million TOE, up by an annual 16.4%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totaled 11.791 TWh combined in the analyzed period, up 0.5% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone dropped by 16.6% to 8.714 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 42.8% of the total output, hydropower for 19.5%, nuclear power for 22.3%, while wind and solar power had shares of 11.6% and 3.9%, respectively.
Thermal power plants generated some 3.726 TWh of electricity in the first two months of 2025, up 0.7% year-on-year.
The country’s hydropower output plummeted by 42.5% on the year to 1.701 TWh, seeing the largest decrease among energy sources.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, fell by an annual 2.1% in January-February 2025, down to 1.94 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 1.01 TWh of electricity, down by 34.9% year-on-year, while solar plants generated 339 GWh, up 30.1%.
Final electricity consumption grew by an annual 2.3% to 8.829 TWh in the mentioned period. Technological consumption in power plants fell by 5.6% to 996 GWh.
Romania’s electricity exports decreased by 4.1% on the year to 1.967 TWh in the first two months of 2025, while imports saw a 139.8% surge to 3.077 TWh.
Romania produced 415,400 TOE of crude oil, down 7.6% year-on-year, and 330,600 TOE of coal, down 4.1%, in January-February 2025. Natural gas production fell 1.9% year-on-year, to 1.259 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.