Wind power in Romania

As of 2007, Wind power in Romania has an installed capacity of 10 MW, up from the 3 MW installed capacity in 2006.

In 2009, Romania will add to its installed wind capacity another 1,200 MW from two wind farms complete in the summer of 2009: CEZ Fântânele Wind Farm and Tomis Team Dobrogea Wind Farm.

Romania has a high wind power potential of around 14,000 MW [ [http://energieverde.wordpress.com/2007/12/17/mediafax-investitiile-in-energia-eoliana-raman-deocamdata-la-nivel-de-intentie/ Wind power capacity in Romania ro] ] and a power generating capacity of 23 TWh, but until 2007 there were no significant wind farms in operation.

Homever, there is a significant number of companies interested in investing in wind farms in Romania, Enel having plans for several wind farms with a total capacity of 1,400 MW.

Another company interested in wind power in Romania is Cofra Group which has plans for two wind farms, one of 700 MW in Dobrogea and one of 400 MW in Moldova with total investments of US$ 1.65 billion. [ [http://www.standard.ro/articol_11049/cofra_investeste_1_1_miliarde_euro_in_centrale_eoliene.html Cofra Group to invest € 1.1 billion in wind farms in Romania ro] ]

Iberdrola recently bought from a Swiss and a Romanian company 50 wind farm projects totaling 1,600 MW of power for US$ 450 million. [ [http://www.editiaspeciala.com/stiri/2008-02-13/Iberdrola-cumpara-centrale-eoliene-de-300-de-milioane-de-euro-43738.asp Iberdrola buys wind farm projects for € 300 million ro] ]

There are several Romanian companies interested in building wind farms, but the most significant are Electrica and Green Energy which have plans for around 600 MW of wind farms with total investments of US$ 800 million. [ [http://www.ecomagazin.ro/green-energy-grup-300-milioane-de-euro-pentru-parcuri-eoliene/ Green Energy invests € 300 million in 3 wind farms ro] ] [ [http://www.romanialibera.ro/a122968/electrica-vrea-ferme-eoliene.html Electrica invests € 250 million in wind farms ro] ] The Hungarian company Sinus Holding will build five wind farms in the Northern Moldavia region with a nominal output of 700 MW and a capital investment of US$ 800 million. The company expects the farms by the end of 2009.

Wind farm projects

These are some of the most important wind farm projects, worth 4,680 megawatts in Romania:

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