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Eurowind Energy completes its 60.2 MW solar park in Romania

Eurowind Energy completes its 60 2 MW solar park in Romania

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April 15, 2025

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Eurowind Energy’s 60.2 MW photovoltaic park in Transylvania will be put into operation in late April, Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja said. The facility is joining the almost 600 MW in new capacity funded from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan. In addition, the ministry prepared a EUR 450 million package of grants for companies for energy efficiency and self-consumption.

After 14 years of doing business in Romania, Denmark-based European Energy is materializing its first major endeavors in the country. Minister of Energy Sebastian Burduja revealed that the company’s solar power plant in Teiuş would be commissioned by the end of the month.

The location is in the Transylvania region. Eurowind Energy received EUR 15 million from the government for the project. It costs EUR 47.2 million in total, or EUR 55 million with value-added tax. Construction began a year ago. The system in Alba county will generate an estimated 104 GWh per year.

Burduja said almost 600 MW of capacity has been commissioned within the projects that Romania funds through the National Recovery and Resilience (NRRP or, in Romanian, PNRR).

Eurowind Energy has major renewables projects lined up in Romania, Bulgaria

Eurowind Energy, based in Hobro, Denmark, is one of the biggest wind and solar power developers in Romania.

The Danish company recently signed a 12-year virtual power purchase agreement (PPA) with Autoliv in Romania, for the supply of electricity from the Pecineaga wind park. Eurowind Energy is preparing to put the facility into operation.

It is also building a 238 MW solar power plant in Yambol in neighboring Bulgaria, with Renalfa IPP. They plan to add wind turbines and batteries.

EUR 450 million available for firms for energy efficiency, self-consumption

At the same event, Burduja said the ministry is launching two calls worth EUR 450 million combined. They are intended for support to the energy-intensive industry.

The package for is for companies. It consists of EUR 150 million for energy efficiency – the replacement of outdated equipment – and more than EUR 300 million for the production of electricity for self-consumption.

The Ministry of Energy has set an extremely ambitious target of 2.5 GW of new capacity to be put into operation this year, Burduja stressed. It is two times more than in 2023. Active energy storage capacity is nearing 400 MWh, he added.

In the energy efficiency call, fims can receive as much as EUR 30 million each from the Modernisation Fund. The self-consumption segment is for the ones with available land and projects for photovoltaic parks or even wind farms and micro hydropower plants.

According to the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), Romania increased its solar power capacity at the end of last year by 57% to 4.7 GW. Most of it is from prosumers. The wind power segment is picking up, but slowly, after a stagnation that began a decade ago.

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