- Wind power in Romania
As of
2007 , Wind power in Romania has an installed capacity of 10 MW, up from the 3MW installed capacity in2006 .In
2009 ,Romania will add to its installed wind capacity another 1,200MW from two wind farms complete in the summer of2009 :CEZ Fântânele Wind Farm andTomis 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 23TWh , but until2007 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 1,400MW .Another company interested in wind power in
Romania isCofra Group which has plans for two wind farms, one of 700MW inDobrogea and one of 400MW inMoldova 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 aSwiss and aRomania n company 50 wind farm projects totaling 1,600MW 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 andGreen Energy which have plans for around 600MW 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 companySinus Holding will build five wind farms in the Northern Moldavia region with a nominal output of 700MW and a capital investment of US$ 800 million. The company expects the farms by the end of2009 .Wind farm projects
These are some of the most important wind farm projects, worth 4,680
megawatts inRomania :References
External links
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