List of wind farms in Romania

View of Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm
The Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm

As of 2013, there was an installed capacity of 2,599 megawatts (MW) of wind power in Romania,[1] up from the 7 MW installed capacity in 2007.[2][3] Until December 2010, Romania added around 440 MW to its installed wind capacity from two wind farms: Fântânele-Cogealac and the EDP Peștera.[4] The Fântânele-Cogealac Wind Farm has been completed in 2012 and at the time was the largest in Europe.[5]

Romania has a wind-power potential of around 14,000 MW,[6] and an energy-generating capacity of 23 terawatt-hours.[6] The country's wind power capacity that can be assimilated by the national transport grid is between 3,000 MW and 9,000 MW,[7] while only in the last two years the total power of the requests for connecting to it was about 22.800 MW.[8] The Dobrogea region, which consists of Constanța and Tulcea counties, has the second-highest wind potential in Europe.[9]

Several companies are interested in investing in wind farms in Romania. The Italian company Enel Green Power, a subsidiary of Enel, plans to build several wind farms with a total capacity of 350 MW.[10] The Swiss conglomerate Cofra Group plans to build two large wind farms, one that will have a capacity of 700 MW in Dobruja and one that will have a capacity of 400 MW in Neamț and Suceava counties; the total investment will amount to $1.65 billion.[11] In 2008, Iberdrola bought 50 wind farm projects, with a combined installed capacity 1,600 MW, from two companies for $450 million.[12] Romanian companies interested in building wind farms include Electrica and Green Energy, which have plans to build wind farms that will have an installed capacity of 310 MW with total investments of $420 million.[13][14] The Hungarian company Sinus Holding will build five wind farms in the Northern Moldavia region, having an installed capacity of 700 MW and totaling $800 million in capital investment, that will be built by December 2009.[15]

  1. ^ EWEA (February 2014). "Wind in power: 2013 European statistics" (PDF). European Wind Energy Association. Retrieved 2014-11-05.
  2. ^ "Avalansa portugheza: Martifer pregateste o achizitie de 7 mil. euro pe eolian si un parc propriu, EDP primeste deja turbinele". Business Standard (in Romanian). 2009-04-01. Archived from the original on 2011-07-16. Retrieved 2009-04-02.
  3. ^ Cristian Matache (2008-08-21). "Prima centrală energetică eoliană din România va fi operațională din 2009" (in Romanian). Gandul. Retrieved 2009-02-04.
  4. ^ Cite error: The named reference CEZ was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  5. ^ Sally Bakewell: "CEZ Commissions All GE Turbines at Europe’s Largest Wind Farm" in Bloomberg, 14 December 2012
  6. ^ a b "Investițiile în energia eoliană rămân deocamdată la nivel de intenție" (in Romanian). Mediafax. 2007-12-17. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  7. ^ "Energia eoliana in Europa, de cinci ori puterea instalata a Romaniei" (in Romanian). www.ziare.com. 2007-09-07. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  8. ^ "Turbinele eoliene din România vor funcționa la 30% din puterea instalată".
  9. ^ Mirona Hrițcu (2009-04-29). "Numai pentru milionarii în euro: afaceri cu energie eoliană" (in Romanian). Capital. Retrieved 2009-07-28.
  10. ^ "Enel: 280 MW din vant, in Tulcea". Business Standard (in Romanian). 2008-09-24. Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-14.
  11. ^ "Cofra investeste 1,1 miliarde euro in centrale eoliene". Business Standard (in Romanian). 2007-08-31. Archived from the original on 2012-07-19. Retrieved 2009-02-03.
  12. ^ Roxana Petrescu (2008-02-13). "Dupa incercarea de preluare a Electrica Muntenia Sud, Iberdrola investeste 300 mil. euro in centrale eoliene". Ziarul Financiar (in Romanian). Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  13. ^ "Green Energy Grup, 300 milioane de euro pentru parcuri eoliene". Business Standard (in Romanian). 2007-08-23. Archived from the original on 2012-07-31. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  14. ^ "Electrica vrea parteneri chinezi pentru investitii in eolian si hidro". Business Standard (in Romanian). Archived from the original on 2012-07-29. Retrieved 2009-08-18.
  15. ^ Cite error: The named reference Sinus Holding was invoked but never defined (see the help page).