Consumers served by state-run Electrica Muntenia Nord were the most affected. Unplanned power shutoffs exceeded 24 hours, from about ten hours in 2011.
On the other hand, Enel Banat’s unplanned power shutoffs lasted five hours, according to the country’s energy market regulator ANRE.
Except Electrica Muntenia Nord and E.ON Moldova, controlled by German company E.ON, the six other energy suppliers in Romania reduced the length of unplanned power shutoff compared with 2011.
Enel Muntenia, which supplies electricity in capital Bucharest, reduced the duration of shutoffs by half an hour, to a little more than five hours last year.