Romania’s energy resources, including imports, totalled 12.928 million TOE in January-May, falling by an annual 4.5%, the statistical office said in a statement. Imports accounted for 48.1% of the aggregate resources, or 6.223 million TOE, down by an annual 6.1%.
Romania’s own electricity output and imports totalled 29.207 TWh combined in the review period, up 1.4% year-on-year. Domestic electricity production alone rose by 6.2% to 22.328 TWh. Thermal power accounted for 29.9% of the total output, hydropower for 28.6%, nuclear power for 18.1%, while wind and solar power had shares of 13.5% and 9.9%, respectively.
Thermal power plants generated some 6.684 TWh of electricity in the five months through May, down 4.4% year-on-year.
The country’s hydropower output jumped by 23.2% on the year to 6.376 TWh.
Electricity generation by Cernavoda, Romania’s sole nuclear power plant, fell by an annual 12.3% in January-May, to 4.037 TWh.
Wind farms generated some 3.019 TWh of electricity, up by 15.4% year-on-year, while solar plants generated 2.212 TWh, surging by 35.9%.
Final electricity consumption inched down by an annual 3.4% to 20.209 TWh in the review period. Technological consumption in power plants rose by 16.2% to 2.525 TWh.
Romania’s electricity exports increased by 13.1% on the year to 6.474 TWh in the first five months of 2026, while imports saw an 11.8% drop to 6.88 TWh.
The country produced 970,000 TOE of crude oil, down 7.5% year-on-year, and 620,600 TOE of coal, down 19.3%, in January-May. Natural gas production edged down by 0.8% year-on-year, to 3.126 million TOE.
Romania’s energy production fell 2.3% to 16.527 million TOE in 2025. TOE is the rounded-off amount of energy that would be produced by burning one metric ton of crude oil.