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The natural gas bill will increase by 5% for the final consumer starting April 1, 2026, after the capping scheme ends on March 31, announced Laurenţiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), yesterday during an...

With the return of the electricity market in our country to free market status, with the termination of the cap-compensation scheme on July 1, consumers will directly feel the market variations, and for many of them, the energy bill could become...

A major power outage hit the Iberian Peninsula and parts of western Europe on Monday, leaving millions without electricity, disrupting transport, telecommunications and economic activity in several regions. The worst-hit countries were Spain,...

The Association of Electricity and Gas Suppliers of Romania (AFEER) calls on the authorities to respect the legal deadline for the liberalization of the electricity market, stability for April 1, 2025, warning that any extension of the price cap...

Reporter: How did 2024 end for energy suppliers, and what are the prospects for 2025?

The Association of Electricity and Gas Suppliers in Romania (AFEER) draws attention to a 10% increase in natural gas bills for household consumers, starting January 1, 2025, if Parliament does not quickly adopt a legislative amendment. The gas...

The publication by Transelectrica of the prices regarding the energy balancing market displeased the electricity suppliers, who found that, although they sell a megawatt (MW) for 400 lei, they have to pay a balancing price of 1890 lei/MW. Among...

The middle of the calendar summer constituted a real challenge for the national energy system, in view of the increase in electricity consumption due to a prolonged period of 10 consecutive hot days, when temperatures of over 40 degrees in the...

The heatwave during this month showed the limits of the national energy system, limits that the Government seeks to solve with firefighting measures, which energy experts claim are only valid in the short term and do not solve the systemic...

This month, suppliers face huge prices on the balancing market, prices that have even reached a level of 16,000 lei per Megawatt, Laurentiu Urluescu, president of the Romanian Energy Suppliers Association (AFEER), told us.

Due to the existence of an oligopoly in the energy balancing market, which imposes ever higher prices, a significant part of the energy suppliers could close their doors in the next three months, if the Government, the Ministry of Energy or the...

The delays regarding the payment by the state of compensation for energy facts could increase significantly after the Government's approval of the draft normative act that will amend GEO 27/2022 through which the capping-compensation...

The state has stopped paying the settlement of the costs borne by the energy suppliers for the invoices issued for the month of February 2023, the representatives of the Romanian Electricity Suppliers Association (AFEER) stated yesterday, during...

The amendment of the Energy Strategy in one month is a bad joke, says Jack Cutişteanu, CEO of Petprod, reacting to the announcement made by the representatives of the Ministry of Energy, according to which the Romanian authorities intend to...

"THE NAME OF THE GAME: SPECULATION

The price of electricity and its increase on the Day-ahead market (PZU) of the OPCOM exchange keeps causing discontent among the players and specialists on the market and is keeping consumers on edge, as they will probably feel the price hikes of...

Publicaţia The Diplomat-Bucharest a organizat cea de-a 5-a ediţie anuală a Galei Premiilor de Excelenţă în Energie - Romanian Energy Awards 2016, pe 12 mai 2016, în cadrul Hilton Hotel, Bucureşti.

The average price of electricity traded on the day-ahead market (PZU) in Q1 2014 was 143.96 lei/MWh, up 3.1% over the median price of the first six months of 2013, according to OPCOM data.

Energy derivatives will be launched by Sibex, after it concluded an agreement with the operator of the energy market OPCOM, which is wholly owned by Transelectrica.

After three years of waiting and knocking on the Government"s door requesting a stable legislative environment, renewable energy investors have been given the green light by the Government for drafting their business plans.

Last year, the BURSA newspaper was the first to disclose the cases of the energy producers (the complexes of Craiova, Turceni and Rovinari) which skirted the law by selling energy to consumers directly instead of via auctions, as they are...

For more than a year, Romanian private energy providers have been trading abroad, on over-the-counter (OTC) markets, because their platforms are flexible and allow them to conclude contracts quickly. Ion Lungu, the president of the Romanian...

• ADEVĂRUL 

The average price of electricity traded in 2009, on the spot market (PZU), managed by OPCOM, was 145.07 lei/MWh, down 23% over the average price for 2008.

Electricity suppliers refuse to participate in the auctions organised by the energy production facilities in Olt Valley, which are currently trying to sell the production scheduled for 2010. The coal-powered energy production facilities have...

The energy production facilities in Turceni and Rovinari have announced new auctions to sell energy with delivery 2010, with starting prices of 204 RON/MWh and, respectively, 207 RON/MWh. The suppliers believe these prices are too high,...

• Companies could pay less on the free market 

The European Commission in June initiated an infringement procedure against Romania in several cases concerning the domestic market for gas and electricity. The Commission objects to the fact that Romania"s National Energy Regulatory...

Rovinari Energy (Complexul Energetic Rovinari) has launched a new set of auctions to sell energy on the Centralized Market for Bilateral Contracts (PCCB) managed by OPCOM, following the cancellation of the auctions scheduled for Friday because of...

National energy market regulator ANRE late last year created a standard contract for the energy traded on centralized markets managed by OPCOM. This type of contract contains the rights and obligations of the parties and payment terms, as well as...

The global financial crisis has also affected the energy market because of price volatility and the limitations on investment lending. Ben Holland, a Partner with CMS Cameron McKenna - London told a seminar organized in partnership with the...

Uncertainties about the future operation of the National Energy Company (CEN) are causing much concern regarding the existence of a free energy market. Ion Lungu, President of the Associated Energy Suppliers in Romania (AFEER), told a press...