This was stated by Caroline Novak, State Secretary of the Ministry of Energy, as part of a public-private dialog on the platform of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI).
According to her, it is the energy sector that has become a key area for attracting the largest investments in the country.
“Sometimes crises are also an opportunity: a chance to attract investors, to develop this sector, to diversify routes and sources of generation, to create jobs and make the country more resilient. This is a sector with great potential. We have reached record levels of renewable energy capacity installed, and the country is on a clear upward trend that other nations have sometimes not had. In the last four years, installed capacity has grown nearly 12-fold, from less than 100 megawatts to about 1,000 megawatts as of January 2026. The share of renewable energy consumption in total electricity has increased from 3.6% to 25%. We have shown that we can mobilize and make serious progress. We don’t have oil and gas, but we have enough sun and wind to develop green energy,” Karolina Nowak shared.
Photovoltaic installations, which remain the most affordable: one megawatt of solar generation can be up to three times cheaper than wind generation.
Also, according to the Secretary of State, clean energy projects are already demonstrating competitiveness with traditional sources:
“If we talk about price competitiveness, we can confidently say: what previously seemed impossible – to compete with the supply of electricity from MGRES – is becoming a reality.”
At the current stage, the government is emphasizing the development of wind power as a more stable source of generation, as well as energy storage systems. In particular, for each megawatt of installed capacity, a minimum of 0.25 megawatt-hours of storage capacity is envisioned.
The maximum price ceiling for the new renewable energy auctions is set at 1.44 lei per kilowatt-hour. The deadline for submitting bids is until March 31.
