Data from national power grid company Transelectrica show that wind farms got more than 771,200 green certificates for a similar amount of power generated, a figure, which is over ten times higher compared with the 75,125 certificates issued in the same time last year.
The main explanation to this is the increase in installed capacity in wind farms, which was 60% higher at the end of the third quarter compared with the capacity in place at the end of 2010.
Wind power is already showing in the national electricity production, as the latest report of the Romanian Energy Regulatory Authority (ANRE) reveals 1.2% of the entire power generated in Romania in July came from such investments.
This amount of power would have been enough to sustain 500,000 households with an average monthly consumption of 200 kWh for nine months. The wind farms could have theoretically provided the necessary power to all the households in Constanta and Tulcea during the period considered, which are also attractive areas for such investments.
The leader in terms of ‘wind money’ is Czech-held CEZ, which collected almost 25 million green certificates during the period considered with its 337.5 MW farm in Fantanele (SE Romania).
Second came Energias de Portugal, the owners of 90 MW farm in Pestera (SE Romania), which got some EUR5 million and by Italian-held Enel, which made EUR4.2 million from green certificates from their 34 MW farm in Valea Nucarilor in Tulcea (SE Romania)
(English version by Loredana Fratila-Cristescu)