Romania’s power production capacity will increase in the next six years by about 19% after units amounting to almost 5,000 MW are made operational, while they take out of use old power plants equivalent to a quarter of the capacity of the new power units.
"Upon making operation an investment representing a new power production capacity , they take out of service an existing capacity equivalent to 25% of the capacity put into operation no later than the year following the commissioning of new power production capacity ", according to a government decision reported by Mediafax.
The new projects comprise a biogas plant of Amonil, a group of 500 MW coal at the Oltenia Energy Complex, a 800 MW coal power plant of the company Braila Power (joint venture between E.ON and Enel) and a new group of 200 MW of the Hunedoara Energy Complex.
Other projects targets existing groups updates, and the construction of new units by ELCEN Bucharest and Arad CHP Govora and Braila.
The new projects will be funded in part with money from the sale of greenhouse gases emission certificates, that Romania receives for free during 2013-2020, due to the fact that it is a signatory of the Kyoto Protocol.
Over the next six years eight production groups will be decommissioned, totaling 1,235 MW. The goups belonging to companies Oltenia Energy Complex (330 MW), Hunedoara Energy Complex (210 MW), CET Brasov (100 MW), ELCEN Bucharest (175 MW) and TERMOELECTRICA (420 MW).
This year there will be decommissioned two groups of CET Brasov and a group of plant Doiceşti (Dâmboviţa), belonging to Termoelectrica.