Last year’s record was 35% higher than the 2024 investments (707 million euros) for 44 projects. The results underscore Romania’s growing potential to attract investment and its continued commitment to a green economy and private sector-led growth, the bank said in a press release.
According to EBRD Romania Director Victoria Zinchuk, the volume of investments in 2025 was the largest annual volume of the bank’s operations in the country since 1992.
Last year, 81% of the EBRD’s investments in Romania were in the green economy, well above the bank’s average for all regions. The projects signed during the year are expected to deliver annual CO₂ emission reductions of more than 1 million tons and are part of Romania’s commitment to meet EU climate and energy targets.
Among the key environmental projects is a €192 million financing package signed in November for three large solar power plants – Slobozia, Corbia Mari and Epureşti II – with a total capacity of 531 MW and approximately 676 GW*h of annual green electricity generation.
Another notable deal took place in May, when the EBRD provided a €180.3 million loan as part of a wider financing package for an ambitious redevelopment project for Romania’s second largest city, Cluj-Napoca.
Cooperation with private corporations, banks, capital partners and municipalities remained active throughout the year, as the sector accounted for 86% of the EBRD’s local portfolio.
To date, the EBRD has invested over €12.3 billion in 584 projects in Romania.
The Bank operates in Central and Eastern Europe (including Moldova), Central Asia, the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean and now Sub-Saharan Africa. The EBRD will invest a total of €16.8 billion in these regions in 2025, up from €16.6 billion in the previous period.
